G-STICK: Capitan Taki

With more than 18% of the world's available freshwater, the Tanganyika and Kivu Lake Basins are of global importance and sources of socio-economic well-being, serving over 12 million people.
Nonetheless, the lakes are experiencing water quality deterioration due to climate change, poor land-use and urbanization, while overfishing and the impact of invasive plant species are exerting high pressure on the aquatic food systems. 
Furthermore, the effect of climate change is exacerbated by the unique and complex morphologies of the lakes, and the complex fluctuations of winds, the influence of which on the lakes is not yet fully known.

The Capitan Taki project aims for both lakes to

• create a community,
• collect and create available information, studies and data on environmental and climate issues,
• organize capacity building on climate adaptive measures,
• share the collected (incl. satellite-based) information, knowledge and materials on a demo platform, as a first stage for further implementation of environmental monitoring systems,
• prepare a roadmap based on building blocks for the environmental monitoring system.