seminars 2017

These seminars are held to stimulate interaction and promote the exchange of information on regional, national and international developments in marine and coastal research. If you would like to recommend a speaker, please contact the secretariat by e-mail: sancor@daff.gov.za or tel: (021) 402 3536. These are open lectures and everybody is welcome to attend.
  
Speaker
Topic
Venue
  
  
1/23/2017
Dr Holly Nel
Rhodes University,
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Microplastic, a “macro” problem
UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
​MA-RE SANCOR13h00
1/30/2017
Mr Robert Schlegel
University of the Western Cape, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
​Climate change in coastal waters: time series properties affecting trend estimation
​​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
​MA-RE SANCOR13h00
2/13/2017
Dr Alon Stern
Princeton University, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
​Ice shelf melting and breaking: implications for Antarctic Climate
​​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
​MA-RE SANCOR13h00
2/15/2017
Dr Pierrick Penven
IRD, France
​Regional modelling around southern Africa
​​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
​MA-RE SANCOR13h00
2/20/2017
Prof Will de Ruijter
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
​The south Indian Ocean as an active player in Climate and Global Change
​​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
​MA-RE SANCOR13h00
2/22/2017
Dr Charles von der Meden
SAEON
​Sub-Antarctic benthos through the lens: long-term change and habitat associations
​John Day LT3, John Day building, UCT Upper Campus
​UCT Biological Sciences13h00
2/22/2017
Dr Clare Eayrs
New York University,  Abu Dhabi
​Antarctic sea ice: modelling challenges
​​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
​MA-RE SANCOR13h00
2/23/2017
Prof George Philander 
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University
​An African perspective on global  climate change
​Venue streaming details here
​ACCESS13h00
3/13/2017
Ms Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton
Stellenbosch University
​Salt-Water-Bodies: Ecomaterialism, Situated Creative Praxis and the Littoral
SANParks ​Cape Research Centre
​CRC12h00
3/22/2017
Dr Johan Nilsson
Lund University and Managing Editor of Journal of Avian Biology
​From Metrics to Altmetrics
​Lecture Theatre 2, John Day building, UCT Upper Campus
​UCT Biological Sciences11h00
3/30/2017
Prof Willem Landman 
University of Pretoria
​​What's an African perspective on climate models?
​ACCESS13h00
3/30/2017
Dr Natalie Burls
George Mason University
​​What's an African perspective on climate models?
​ACCESS13h00
3/30/2017
Dr Mary-Jane Bopape
CSIR 
​​What's an African perspective on climate models?
​ACCESS13h00
4/26/2017
Prof Isabelle Ansorge
UCT
​What's an African perspective on our Oceans?
​ACCESS13h00
4/26/2017
Dr Thato Mtshali
CSIR 
​What's an African perspective on our Oceans?
​ACCESS13h00
4/26/2017
Prof Amanda Lombard
NMMU
​What's an African perspective on our Oceans?
​ACCESS13h00
5/30/2017
Dr Tammy Robinson
Department of Botany and Zoology & DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University
​Impacts of marine alien species in the Saldanha Bay system
​SANParks ​Cape Research Centre, Tokai
​CRC SANParks12h00
5/30/2017
Prof Kevern Cochrane
Rhodes University
​Balancing the books for South Africa’s small-scale fisheries: Resources, rights and social and economic returns
​Strand Towers Hotel, Cape Town 
​PLAAS13h00
5/31/2017
Prof Peter Ryan
UCT FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
​ACEing around Antarctica
(Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition -ACE)
Details here.
​Lecture Theatre 2, John Day building, UCT Upper Campus
​UCT Biological Sciences13h00
6/2/2017
Ivan M. Martins
Fisheries Ecosystems Laboratory, Oceanographic Institute, University of São Paulo
​Vulnerability to and perceptions of climate change among small-scale fishers from the South Brazil Bight
​Museum, 3rd floor, John Day Building,  UCT Upper Campus
​UCT Biological Sciences11h15
6/5/2017
Associate Prof Marcello Vichi
Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town
​Webinar: The Southern Ocean in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sectors: current knowledge gaps and the role of sea ice
​ACDI Tyndall UEA MA-RE13h00
6/19/2017
​Dr Sarah Fawcett
UCT Oceanography Department
​The upper ocean nitrogen cycle in the Atlantic Southern Ocean
​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
​MA-RE SANCOR13h00
7/18/2017

​Dr Rabiah Ryklief
Nelson Mandela University

​Cape Gannets in Contrasting Environments: Behaviour, Demographics and Indicators of Environmental Change

​Cape Research Centre Hall

CRC12h00
7/24/2017

​Mr Junaid Francis
Responsible Fisheries Alliance Co-ordinator

Promoting collaborative partnerships to secure the long-term health of our oceans

​Fisheries Seminar Room, 5th Floor of the Foretrust Building, Martin Hammerschlag Way,

MA-RE SANCOR11h00
8/16/2017

Ms Florence Briton
Université Pierre et Marie Currie, France

​Setting reference points for ecosystem indicators

​Lecture Theater 3, John Day building, UCT Upper campus

UCT Biological Sciences 13h00
8/18/2017

Dr Pedro Monteiro
Southern Ocean Carbon - Climate Observatory, CSIR

Earth Systems Model biases in the ocean carbon cycle: what are we learning from new high resolution observations and modelling experiments in the Southern Ocean?

​CHPC Lecture Hall, 15 Lowerhope Road, Rosebank, Cape Town

CHPC12h00
8/21/2017

​Ms Pauline Tedesco 
European Institute for Marine Studies (Plouzané, France) 

​Submesoscale instabilities in the Agulhas Current

​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room 

MA-RE SANCOR13h00
8/24/2017

Dr Louise Biddle
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg

​Investigating the effects of sea- and glacial-ice meltwater on the upper ocean

​CSIR Rosebank Boardroom

SOCCO13h00
8/25/2017

Dr Lee-Leung Fu
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

​Mapping sea surface height in two dimensions with high resolution from space: The SWOT Mission

​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room

MA-RE SANCOR13h00
9/11/2017

Dr Daniel B Whitt
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

​How storms enhance mixing and disturb plankton ecosystems at submesoscale fronts

​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room

MA-RE13h00
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