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PostJanuary 18, 2019

Rwanda Launched the Medusa Instrument for the Rwanda Global Climate Observatory

Mt. Mugogo in Rwanda

Friday, January 18, 2019

Rwanda launches first African Air Quality and Climate Laboratory equipped to measure more than 50 gases that degrade the ozone layer and affect climate change. In a joint effort--between the Ministries of Education, Environment and Rwanda Meteorological Agency in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and hosted by the University of Rwanda, College of Science and Technology--Ron Prinn, EAPS TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science, and EAPS former PhD student Jimmy Gasore helped to initiate the Rwanda-MIT Climate Change Observatory Project with the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE).

Read the full story at Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Education.

Story Image: Mt. Mugogo in Rwanda where the continent's first high frequency atmospheric station is located. (Photo: Gunver Vestergaard) 

by MIT Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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