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Meet The Team

Primary Investigators

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Researchers & Students

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GMERC team - July2025

2025

Judi Mbayuwayu Project Manager	Jidayi Masunzu Research Coordinator	Ivorda Mhakilicha Deputy Research Coordinator/Manager
Ramadhani Tumaini Monkey Project Leader	Shedrack Lukas Phenology Project Leader	Joram Lazaro Chimpanzee Project Leader
Mwarabu Ndoroki	Elias Juma	Jenipher Kisimba
Mecktilda Charles Fig Project leader	Mali Temu	Juma Hussein Cook
Burcadi Vyampi	Team GMERC (credit: Cosmas Mp[ongo/GMERC)

Shedrack Lukas (left) on the history of GMERC, from the very origins in 2008!

When we began, there were only 5 of us, Alex, Fiona, and 2 of my colleagues.

We were a very small team in those days.

Mashaka Alimas (right) on his personal journey and how he ended up with GMERC back in 2011

I began work with chimpanzees on Kalobwe Mountain, near my village. In the early days, we used bananas to habituate chimpanzees. We learned since then that there are dangers to provisioning, and in time they can learn to tolerate researcher presence, like at Issa.

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