Kakonkwe Christian

• Designed and lead courses in Petroleum Geology, East African Rift Geology, Sedimentary Geology, and Field Geology.
• Co-authored 2 research papers.
• Presented research results in 2 international conferences.
• Led 6 field camps and several field trips.
• Provided letters of recommendations to students pursuing further education or employment.
• Supervised 16 Bachelor (Hons) research projects.

• Presented 1 iPoster at the American Geophysical Union Fall 2020 meeting on the coupling of landscape evolution to sedimentary basin evolution.
• Led labs in Earth as a Living Planet.
• Retrieved data from seismic stations in Kenya.

• Designed and lead courses in Field Geology and Mine Survey.
• Led 2 field camps.

• Designed and led labs in Volcanology, Advanced Mineralogy, and Geochemistry.
• Designed and led courses in Exploration Geophysics, Petroleum Geology, and Stratigraphy.

• Produced 3 reports on the seismic interpretation of the lake Tanganyika, Semliki basin, and lake Baikal rifts.
• Logged sediment core samples from the Finger lakes of New York.

• Sampled ore minerals across Rwanda for the Analytical Fingerprint Project.
• Produced 10+ reports describing ore bodies across Rwanda.
• Installed seismic stations.

Gold exploration campaign.

• Co-supervised 3 diamond core drilling sites.
• Logged 5+ rock cores and sampled from them.
• Co-supervised 10+ auger drilling sites, logged and sampled soil.
• Sampled stream sediments.
• Co-led surface geological mapping.
• Prepared samples for shipment and grade analysis.