Denis Muthike

Background

About Denis Muthike

My interests are in a wide range of environmental questions, predominantly focused on communities living in agricultural and rangeland environments. I seek answers as to how extreme hydroclimatic events impact people and systems and response mechanisms to risks from the extreme events at local and regional scales, and in support of adaptation planning. Thus my research intersects diverse disciplines including climate science, remote sensing, and hydrology resulting in cross-disciplinary information. I innovatively combine data science approaches to develop tools that integrate, analyze, and extract information from many large and often diverse data sets, enabling decisions that require the inclusion of multiple data sets. I have led small to mid-sized teams for over a decade and innovated and deployed climate services that have improved the capacity to adapt rural communities in the eastern and southern Africa region to climate impacts. My technical leadership has led to the development of climate adaptation tools, products, and strategies, and helped mobilize adaptation funding for national and regional beneficiaries. I have also directly trained over 500 professionals and mentored over a dozen young scientists. My work has been funded by more than $5 million from various sources including NASA, USAID, the World Bank, UNDP, UNIDO, US National Science Foundation, USGS, IDRC, and FCDO. I am always eager to connect with others whose interests align with mine.