The first joint coordinating session of the SATREPS project held in Yaounde Monday March 19, 2012.
Scientific researchers in the country, under a joint Cameroon-Japan sponsored SATREPS IRGM Project (Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development), have been brainstorming on how to pre-empt future disasters in potentially dangerous Lakes in Nyos, North West and Monoun, West Regions respectively. This was within the framework of the first joint coordination meeting of the project which held in the conference hall of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation (MINRESI) on Monday March 19. The project has as target, supplying magmatic fluid into Lakes Nyos and Monoun and mitigating natural disasters through capacity building in the country.
Speaking during the session, the Secretary General of MINRESI, Ebelle Etame Rebecca Madeleine, said mastering the monitoring of all lakes that can now or in the future produce dangerous gas is important. Carrying this out by Cameroonian scientific researchers through capacity building by SATREPS, she added, makes it the more interesting.
The five-year project, (2011-2016) comprises human and institutional capacity building. The objective is to understand the mechanism of eruptions, clarify the distribution of carbon dioxide in and around the lakes and deepen knowledge on carbon dioxide supply system into the lakes. It also involves carrying out experimental research on water-rock interaction under carbon dioxide-rich environment, understanding the mechanism and formation history of volcanic lakes, reinforcing the monitoring system of the lakes as well as devising new methods to prevent further build-up of carbon dioxide in deep waters of the lakes. Five Cameroonian researchers are to travel to Japan for capacity building in the weeks ahead.
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