The DRIAR Project: Dry-Rifting In the Albertine-Rhino Graben, Uganda

This project is an interdisciplinary study of the East African Rift in Uganda. This branch of the rift is mostly amagmatic and our study aims to understand the mechanisms that drive rifting when melt supply is low. Our component of the project is the collection of MT data, with acquisition done by Ugandan colleagues.

The project includes capacity building in Uganda through training of Ugandan partners and students,  through 2 DRIAR summer field schools. Training in Magnetotelluric (MT) data processing and modeling will build capacity within the Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD). MEMD have collected data for their own interests around potential geothermal sites and we are working with them on analysis of those data in addition to the data collected for our project.