Dr. Happiness Moshi is a researcher at Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Center (ACER), Aga Khan University. Dr. Moshi holds a PhD in Aquatic Environmental Science and Conservation. Her research interest is in environmental and biodiversity conservation, conservation agriculture, ecology, agricultural development, climate resilience food systems, freshwater and marine ecosystems research, public and environmental health. Dr. Moshi is also a lecturer at University of Dar es Salaam where she lectures on environmental, biodiversity conservation and climate related courses. 

She is currently engaged in a four-year interdisciplinary project – Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa (MSFRA) – that seeks to understand how the reshaping of Agro-food systems, land markets and power relations resulting from the emergence of medium-scale farmers affect agrarian economies and livelihoods taking case studies of the Mangola Onion farming and Kilombero Valley Floodplain (KVF) rice farming in Tanzania. She is also working on other several projects including: Gap Analysis of Risk Communications for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Climate change Impact on water and Human Health, Climate change impacts on African Great lakes, Role of Citizen Science in Environmental Monitoring and Baseline study on Climate risk and resilience in Northern Tanzania. 

• Environmental conservation 

• Water resources protection and management

• Climate change

• Biodiversity Assessment

• Citizen science

• Blue Economy

• Agro-ecology
  
   

• Brewin, R. J., Sun, X., Wood, J. L., Brewin, T. G., McBride, D., Frensley, B. T., ... & Moshi, H. A. (2025). An innovation of two established methods for monitoring water colour and clarity: participatory science using the mini-and midi-secchi disks. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 13, 1610130.

• Murindangabo, Y. T., Adelodun, B., Frouz, J., Odey, G., Mbasabire, P., Moshi, H. A & Soma, T. (2025). Innovative analysis of half-century (1973–2022) spatial-temporal variability and trends in climate indices across the Czech Republic. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 104211.

• Moshi, H. A., & Kitula, R. (2025). Situational Analysis of Child Labour in Coastal and Marine Activities in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 14(1), 7.

• Moshi, H. A., Shilla, D. A., Brehim, J., Kimirei, I., O’Reilly, C., & Loiselle, S. (2023). Sustainable management of the African great lake coastal areas: motivations and perspectives of community citizen scientists. Environmental management, 72(3), 473-487. 

• Moshi, H. A., Kimirei, I., Shilla, D., O’Reilly, C., Wehrli, B., Ehrenfels, B., & Loiselle, S. (2022). Citizen scientist monitoring accurately reveals nutrient pollution dynamics in Lake Tanganyika coastal waters. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 194(10), 689.

• Moshi, H. A., Shilla, D. A., Kimirei, I. A., O’Reilly, C., Clymans, W., Bishop, I., & Loiselle, S. A. (2022). Community monitoring of coliform pollution in Lake Tanganyika. Plos one, 17(1), e0262881.

• Lowe, B. S., Jacobson, S. K., Anold, H., Mbonde, A. S., & O’Reilly, C. M. (2019). Adapting to change in inland fisheries: Analysis from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Regional Environmental Change, 19, 1765-1776.