Agenda

Monday, 24 July 2023

5:00 – 7:00p……………..Reception and ice breaker in the foyer next to pool and conference rooms

7:00p ………………………..Dinner

Tuesday, 25 July 2023

7:00 – 9:00a …………….Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30a …………..Introduction to the Workshop & Opening Ceremony

  • Donna Shillington, co-organizer of the meeting
  • Stanley Nyama, Director, Malawi Geological Survey Department
  • Joseph Mkandawire, Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Mines

9:30 – 9:45a…………..Group photo

9:45 – 10:15a………….Overview of Southern East Africa Rift System – Part 1

  • Moderator: Donna Shillington (Northern Arizona Univ)
  • James Muirhead (Univ Auckland) Spatio-temporal variations in rift faulting and basin development in the East African Rift System

10:15 – 10:45a…………..Session 1: Lithospheric extension and imaging

  • Moderator: Chikondi Chisenga (Malawi Univ Sci & Tech)
  • James Gaherty (Northern Arizona Univ) – Seismic inferences on mantle temperature and melting during extension: tale of three rifts
  • Youqiang Yu (Tongji Univ) – Insights into the evolution of the Malawi rift from seismic investigations of the SAFARI project

10:45 – 11:00a…………..Coffee break

11:00a – 12:00p…………..Session 1 (continued)

  • Fenitra Andriampenomanana (Univ Witswatersrand) – Shear wave splitting measurements in northeastern Uganda and southeastern Tanzania: corroborating evidence for sublithospheric mantle flow beneath East Africa
  • Victor Nyalugwe (Malawi Geological Survey Dept) Geophysics – A Geological and Structural Studies Tool
  • Kitso Matende (Univ Botswana) Insights into Rifting: A Magnetotelluric Perspective

12:00 – 1:30p…………….Lunch

1:30 – 2:30p……………….Speed Networking – Part 1

2:30 – 3:00p……………….Lightning talks to introduce posters

3:00 – 3:30p………………Coffee break

3:30 – 4:45p……………..Session 2: Active deformation processes 

  • Moderator: Andrea Gomez-Patton (Cornell Univ)
  • Sarah Stamps (Virginia Tech Univ.) – Broad-scale kinematics of the East African Rift System
  • Elifluraha Saria (Ardhi Univ) – Geodetic Constraints on Crustal Deformation Across EAR and Opening Rate Along Malawi/Nyasa Rift
  • Alastair Sloan (Univ Cape Town) – Major Surface Ruptures in Southern Africa away from the main East African Rift 
  • Luke Wedmore (Univ Bristol) – Continental Deformation of the amagmatic East African Rift

4:45 – 6:45p ……………..Poster session and cash bar

7:00p…………………………Dinner

Wednesday, 26 July 2023

7:00 – 9:00a…………..Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30a………….Overview of Southern East Africa Rift System – Part 2

  • Moderator: Donna Shillington (Northern Arizona Univ)
  • Estella Atekwana (UC Davis) Continental Rifting along the Southern East African Rift System: Insights from Geophysical Imaging Studies

9:30 – 10:45a…………Session 3: Origin and role of magmatism and fluids 

  • Moderator: Clarah Kimani (Univ Dar es Salaam)
  • Daud Ntambila (Ardhi Univ) – An Investigation of the Magmatic Plumbing System of the Active Volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai
  • Karim Mtili (Univ Dar es Salaam) – The origin of high helium concentrations in the gas fields of SW Tanzania
  • Emmanuel Njinju (Univ California Davis) – Investigating Melt Generation Beneath Rungwe Volcanic Province, East Africa

10:45 – 11:15a……….Coffee break

11:15 – 12:30p………..Session 4: Fault evolution and the role of pre-existing lithospheric structure 

  • moderator: Hassan Mdala (Malawi Geological Survey Department)
  • Folarin Kolawole (Columbia Univ) – Tectonic Weakening at Propagating Rift Tips, East Africa
  • Daniel Lao-Davila (Oklahoma State Univ) – Pre-existing Structures and their Role in the Formation of Faults and Strain Accommodation in the Magma-Poor Malawi Rift
  • Ame Thato Selepeng (Botswana Intl Univ of Science and Technology) – Fault controlled geometries by inherited tectonic texture at the southern end of the East African Rift System in the Makgadikgadi Basin, northeastern Botswana
  • Donna Shillington (Northern Arizona Univ) – Controls on intrarift faulting in the Malawi Rift

12:30 – 2:00p………..Lunch

2:00– 2:15p……….Field trip introduction

2:15 – 3:00p…………Speed Networking – Part 2

3:00 – 3:30p………….Break

3:30 – 4:45p………….Session 5: Geohazards associated with continental rifting

  • Moderator: Paul Wallace, Univ libre de Bruxelles)
  • Jack Williams ( U Otago) – A fault-based seismic hazard model for Malawi. 
  • Geoffrey Chimzumu (Malawi Geological Survey Department) – Earthquake monitoring AND prediction In Malawi along the East Africa Rift System
  • Patricia Mavazhe (Goetz Observatory) – Seismicity of Zimbabwe
  • Joseph Nyago (Geological Survey Department Uganda) Detection Capability and Analysis of Volcanic-induced Seismicity associated with May 2021 Nyiragongo eruption, Eastern D.R. Congo.

4:45 – 6:45p…………Poster session and cash bar

7:00p……………………Dinner

Thursday, 27 July 2023   

6:00 – 7:00a…………..Breakfast

7:30a – 5:30p…………Field Trip to Zomba Graben  

Field trip leaders: Luke Wedmore, Jack Williams, Hassan Mdala, Folarin Kolawole, Daniel Laó Dávila, Patrick Chindandali

Friday, 28 July 2023    

7:00 – 9:00a…………..Breakfast

9:00 –10:30a………….Session 6: Interactions between tectonics, basin evolution, and surface processes in rifts

  • Moderator: Diego Quiros, Univ Cape Town
  • Christopher Scholz (Syracuse Univ) – Constraining rift basin evolution through scientific drilling
  • Liang Xue (Syracuse Univ) – Lake level fluctuations affect strain localization and mantle melting in evolving continental rifts
  • Lydia Olaka (Technical University of Kenya) Tectonic Controls on the Hydrogeology of the Kenya  Rift
  • Felix Mphepo (Malawi Geological Survey Department) Understanding the Mechanism Behind Continuous Natural Flow of Borehole Water East of the Malombe Fault.  
  • Zuze Dulanya (Univ Malawi). Assessing the potential of syn-rift sediments for geochronological dating, implications for the development of Makanjira-Shire Basin in South Malawi Rift

10:30 – 11:00a…………Coffee Break

11:00a – 12:00p………Session 7: Resources in continental rifts

  • Moderator: Joan Nakajigo, Makerere University
  • Mervyn Gumbo (National U of Science & Tech Zimbabwe) – Resources in Continental Rifts
  • Chifundo Njala (Malawi Geological Survey Department) – The Economic Impact of the Southern East African Rift System
  • Joy Foluso (Univ California Davis) – Hot spring geochemistry along the western and southwestern branches of the EARS and it’s implication for geothermal resources and climate change

12:00 – 1:00p…………..Small group discussions: Future directions

  • Lithospheric stretching and magmatism (Discussion leaders: Aubreya Adams, Diego Quiros)
  • Active faulting processes (Discussion leaders: Fola Kolawole, Zuze Dulanya)
  • Interactions between surface and solid earth processes (Discussion leaders: Chris Scholz, John Mary Kiberu)
  • Hazards in the rift valley: volcanism, earthquakes, mass movements (Discussion leaders: Sarah Stamps, Elifuraha Saria)

1:00 – 2:15p………….Lunch

2:15 – 2:45p…………..Report back from small group discussions

2:45 – 3:30p…………..Panel discussion: Fostering New International Collaborations

  • Estella Atekwana (Univ California Davis)
  • Luke Wedmore (Univ Bristol)
  • Annock Chiwona (Malawi Geological Survey Dept)
  • Clarah Kilmani  (Univ Dar es Salaam)
  • Moikwathai Moidaki (Univ Botswana)

3:30 – 4:00p…………..Plenary discussion and next steps 

4:00p……………………..Meeting adjourns

4:00 – 6:00p…………Informal meetings and discussions

7:00p……………………..Dinner