Gobabeb Research and Training Centre
Gobabeb Research and Training Centre is an internationally recognised centre for dry land training and research. It is located in Namibia in the Namib Desert, 120 km by road south-east of Walvis Bay.
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Team Topnaar-Gobabeb
Theo Wassenaar captures the first training session for Team Topnaar Gobabeb as they make their way towards the Desert Dash.
Sunset on the dunes at Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Namibia
Dune survey workshop, Gobabeb, Namibia, 2012
With funding from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), the BSG Fixed Term Working Group on Sand Seas and Dune Fields organised a workshop on dune survey techniques, as part of the 9th biennial meeting of the South African Association of Geomorphologists at Gobabeb Training and Research Centre in the Namib Desert. The event coincided with the 50th Anniversary of Gobabeb as a world leading field centre for desert research, providing conference and laboratory facilities in the heart of the Namib Naukluft Park, a short walk from the edge of the Sand Sea. For more information on the Namib Dune Atlas project, Gobabeb Training and Research Centre, The RGS (with IBG) Field Centre grants, the International Association of Geomorphologists, and the Fixed Term Working Groups of the British Society for Geomorphology, see the following websites:
shef.ac.uk/sandsea
gobabebtrc.org
rgs.org/fieldcentregrants
geomorph.org
geomorphology.org.uk
Gobabeb Research and Training Centre
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Video production: Oliver Halsey and Marcel Chaves
Soundtrack: Dexter Britain - Together In The Empty
Interviewee: Dr. Gillian Maggs-Kölling
Gobabeb Research Centre
Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Kuiseb River Canyon, Namibia
Gobabeb Training and Research Center-Science In The Sand-
The Desert Research Foundation of Namibia's Gobabeb Training and Research Center lies at the foot of the vast dunes of the Namib Desert. The station has been collaborating with Namibia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism for over 50 years collecting data about carbon levels and temperature increases that provide vital data for scientists and climate experts world wide on our climate. At over fifty-five million years old, the Namib Desert is world's oldest steady-state ecosystems. At this station, researchers have been piecing together climate history, and are extrapolating our climactic future while informing local communities about how they can adapt to the coming changes.
Gobabeb Research Centre cultivates next generation of environmental scientists - NBC
Team Topnaar-Gobabeb Gets New Bikes!
As the GobaDash approaches, Team Topnaar-Gobabeb gets new bikes. Many thanks to Mannie Heymans and Victor Momsen! Stay tuned for more as Team Topnaar-Gobabeb continues to prepare for the Desert Dash.
Namib: Surviving the Sand Sea Trailer
Namib: Surviving the Sand Sea explores life in one of the driest places on Earth, the hyper-arid Namib Desert. An abundance of unique and remarkable organisms call this seemingly inhospitable land their home. The filmmaker, Oliver Halsey, spent over a year getting to understand and film various desert organisms at Gobabeb, a scientific research station in the central Namib.
Film by Oliver Halsey - oliverhalsey.net
Gobabeb Research and Training Center Orientation Video
Benefit-Sharing in the Namib Sand Sea
A brief overview of the various projects undertaken by Gobabeb in cooperation with the Finnish Embassy's Fund for Local Co-operation to benefit the local community around the Namib Sand Sea World Heritage Site in Namibia. Film directed and produced by Oliver Halsey.
Namib Desert Snails at Gobabeb
When was the Namib Desert wet enough for snails?
gobabebtrc.org
Produced and filmed by Oliver Halsey
Namibia's bio diversity celebrated at Gobabeb Research Centre-NBC
Gobabeb Research and Training Centre Orientation Video 2013
Welcome to Gobabeb! Learn more about Gobabeb Research and Training Centre and how we conserve water and energy in the Namib Desert.
Namib Grens Camping Trip A mp4
Gobabeb - Video Learning - WizScience.com
The Gobabeb Training and Research Center is an internationally recognized center for dry land training and research in Namibia. It is located in the Namib Desert, 120 km south-east of Walvis Bay.
Gobabeb was founded by the Austrian entomologist Dr. Charles Koch in 1962. Since 1998 Gobabeb has been a joint Venture between the Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the Desert Research Foundation Namibia . Gobabeb conducts research in the fields of climate, ecology and geomorphology. Further it tests, demonstrates and promotes Appropriate Technologies. By conducting training courses Gobabeb aims to improve the public awareness and knowledge of dry land ecology and environmental issues. The station consists of permanent researchers, students, and interns, as well as short time visitors such as school and university groups, and tourists. Gobabeb also hosts film crews, journalists and artists.
The Station is located 120 km south-east of Walvis Bay in Namibia’s largest nature reserve Namib Naukluft Park. Gobabeb lies at the meeting point of three different ecosystems: the ephemeral Kuiseb River, the Sand Dunes Sea to the south and the gravel plains to the north. This offers an excellent diversity of environments in which to conduct research.
As the station is located in the Namib desert, the climate is hyperarid with an average annual precipitation of 23.8 mm, about 65% during the summer months . In 2010/2011 an extreme rainfall of about 165 millimeters was measured during rainy season. With an average annual temperature of 21.1 °C the climate is subtropical and about 5-6 °C warmer than the temperate coast though at about 400 m above sea level : given that Gobabeb is at more than about 70 km from the coast it is much less under the influence of the cold coastal ocean Benguela current than coastal areas such as Walvis Bay. A cold coastal ocean current cools the above oceanic air. The latter being cooled, water vapor in that air may become liquid water. Therefore clouds and particularly fogs may appear, hugely diminishing insolation and thus temperature. Thus cold ocean currents along western coast of continents doubly cool these coasts : by their own cold and by the nebulosity they bring. For instance Walvis Bay has 140 days of fog per year while Gobabeb has only 94 days. Gobabeb's remoteness from the Atlantic explains why it is significantly warmer than the Namibian coast despite being at a greater altitude.
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The Mighty Kuiseb
The Kuiseb River floods past Gobabeb Training and Research Centre in February, 2011.