The Department of Earth and Climate Sciences is a fusion of the former departments of Geology and Meteorology, both of which have a very long and rich history since the University of Nairobi was established in 1970 (and Geology was established even earlier, in 1956 when the University of Nairobi was still the Royal Technical College of East Africa), as well as hosts and administers two relatively younger but very vibrant research institutes - the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA, est. 2011) and the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI, est.