Members

Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research

Centre for African Wetlands

Chongxi Wetland Research Centre

Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Reserach Center

Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands

Max-Planck Institute für Limnologie

Pantanal Ecology Research Group

Wetlands Research Center, Canada

Wilma H. Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park

Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Center, Botswana

Description:
HOORC started as a small lab in 1986 and has grown into a University of Botswana-housed entity.   It is a multi-disciplinary, natural resource management-focused research center.  There is a new research facility with 15 academic staff, laboratories, and offices.  HOORC is involved in management planning in the Okavango river basin with Okacom.

Funding:
Government of Botswana, European Union, USAID, and others .

Research:
A multi-disciplinary approach is taken around the theme of natural resource management of the Delta. Projects include river basin scale analysis of entire three-country catchment, hydrology of the Delta, work on seasonal floodplains, community-based natural resource management, management planning for the delta, land use and land cover for the entire catchment.

Training:
Teaching/training and supervision of post-graduate and undergraduate students, most of who come from abroad.  The Center will be the field site for the Southern African Universities Consortium Ph.D. program in natural resource management.  Consortium includes University of Pretoria, Venda University of Science and Technology, University of Botswana, and University of Virginia.

Website: http://www.ub.bw/research/hoorc.cfm