Rwanda

2012 EPP fellow with SURF, Dr. Martin Schmid

Augustin Gafasi  February - March 2012 (Rwanda)

National University of Rwanda, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Dept. of Civil Engineering

During my stay at Eawag as an EPP fellow I was able to achieve the following tasks:  I finalized my MSc research proposal entitled “The temporal dynamics of subaquatic springs discharge in Lake Kivu” under the supervision of Dr Martin Schmid (SURF). This part was the most important because it is the quality of my proposal which will determine the overall thesis quality. Furthermore, I mastered different measurement techniques:

• On ICPE-9000, how to run samples and ICPE-900 software application.
• GC ‐ GAS Chromatography used for measuring methane gas concentration in water samples and the software application.

Additionally, I learned how to apply the Scidavis software which is used for CTD data analysis as well as plotting the graph of CTD profiles. I would like to thank the Eawag staff for their close guidance throughout my stay, my special thanks goes to my supervisor Dr Martin Schmid.