DENNIS Lemayian
Ecologist
Loitokitok
Summary
I aspire to contribute to the improvement of the environment through innovative and beneficial ideas for society at large. My goal is to ensure the ecological integrity of our biotic and abiotic systems, maintaining balance, and safeguarding the future of humanity and wildlife.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Ecological Health Monitoring Officer
South Rift Association of Land Owners
09.2023 - Current
- Conception and development of a prosopis juliflora monitoring protocol
- Development of mobile based data collection platforms (Vegetation data, Baseline surveys, Market data)
- Developing protocols for water, settlements and Markets monitoring
- Leading teams in undertaking Lion occupancy studies
- Establishing Lion population numbers in the southern Kenya using the spatially explicit capture recapture method
- Collating, cleaning and analyzing vegetation monitoring data from restored areas
- Leading in community ambassadors’ recruitment across the south rift landscape
- Scaling restoration activities across the landscape
- Developing monitoring and evaluation protocols of projects being implemented across the landscape
- Engaging with local leaders and stakeholders to build consensus around restoration and governance activities
- Overseeing Monitoring and reporting systems for the organization
- Provide trainings on pastoralists managed natural regeneration and human wildlife conflict mitigation to groups of local communities and field staff
- Support, supervise and manage field staff
- Monitoring of land use and vegetation changes using remote sensing
- Collaborating with Key wildlife stakeholders (KWS and WRTI) in undertaking surveys and censuses
Research and Monitoring Officer
Northern Rangeland Trust
02.2017 - 08.2023
- Establishment of Beisa Oryx monitoring program in Nakuprat Gotu conservancy
- Conceptualization and overseeing of the of the Lorian swamp biodiversity survey
- Supporting conservancies in Marsabit, Samburu, and Isiolo counties in implementing the Wildlife Conservancy Monitoring and Management System (WCoMMs)
- Producing monthly Rhino body condition reports and maintaining the Kifaru database
- Assisting conservancies in vegetation and wildlife monitoring programs
- Generating monthly Elephant mortality maps and reports
- Collating, analyzing, and producing reports for human-wildlife conflict incidents in Marsabit, Samburu, and Isiolo counties
- Assisting in the departmental requisition of equipment
- Training conservancy scouts on QGIS, SMART, and Earth Ranger
- Conducting conservancy-specific habitat monitoring
- Undertaking wildlife surveys and censuses
- Monitoring invasive species and providing advice on best practice control
- Producing donor reports
- Designing wildlife monitoring programs for specific conservancies
- Leading participatory land use mapping and zonation
- Developing land use plans in close collaboration with county governments
- Undertaking community engagements in wildlife and rangelands governance
- Engaging stakeholders such as KWS and WRTI on technical conservancy scouts training
Research and Monitoring Assistant
Kenya Wildlife Service
11.2011 - 02.2017
- Entering historical human wildlife conflict data into conflict database thereby effectively maintaining the database
- Establishing the participatory community elephant monitoring
- Preparing training materials for pastoral communities on predator deterrence methods and sustainable livestock husbandry
- Assisting in the maintenance and update of the Rhino master ID files for the Masai Mara ecosystem in collaboration with Narok County government rangers
- Conducting ground and aerial censuses to enumerate wildlife populations
- Performing habitat assessments for the African black rhino in the Masai Mara ecosystem
- Monitoring collared elephants and cheetahs to determine migratory corridors and human-wildlife conflict hotspots
- Establishing a tracking system for invasive species to aid in their control in colonized areas and limit their spread in unoccupied areas
- Tracking of translocated elephants using both Radio telemetry and participatory community monitoring
Education
Bachelor of Science - Wildlife Management and Conservation
University of Nairobi
01.2007 - 01.2011
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - undefined
Burieruri Secondary School
Skills
Field work
ArcGIS/ QGIS
Habitat assessments
Vegetation monitoring
Camera trapping
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 06/23/87
Professional Development
- HIV and AIDS course
- Microsoft Office
- Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART)
- Advanced QGIS
- Advanced Kifaru database training
- Species distribution modelling using QGIS
- Remote Sensing using QGIS
- IBM SPSS
- STATA
- KOBO
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- R statistics
Timeline
Ecological Health Monitoring Officer
South Rift Association of Land Owners
09.2023 - Current
Research and Monitoring Officer
Northern Rangeland Trust
02.2017 - 08.2023
Research and Monitoring Assistant
Kenya Wildlife Service
11.2011 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Science - Wildlife Management and Conservation
University of Nairobi
01.2007 - 01.2011
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education - undefined
Burieruri Secondary School
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