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​ SEMINARS 2015

 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.

 

Date​ Speaker​ Topic​ Time​ Venue​ Host​
​4 Feb Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
UCT Biological Sciences		 Biological Deductions from Fossil Bone 13h00 LT1 HW Pearson Building, UCT UCT Biological Sciences
​10 Feb ​Ms Hanlie Malherbe
Technical University of Munich		 ​Potential impacts of land use on ecosystem services along the southern coast, South Africa ​12h00 ​Cape Research Centre ​CRC
​19 Feb ​Mr Steven Jermy
Mojo Maritime Limited		 ​Leading the world in marine renewables - a decade's worth of Britain's experience in wave and tidal energy ​13h00 ​​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​​MA-RE SANCOR
​20 Feb ​Prof Peter Weingart
Research Chair in Science Communication, Stellenbosch University

​Public trust in science - why it matters and how it is earned or eroded
(RSVP marinajoubert@sun.ac.za)

 ​12h30 for 13h00 ​5th Floor, Wilcocks Building, Stellenbosch University ​CREST - Science Fridays @ Stellenbosch
​25 Feb ​Dr Shane Elipot
University of Miami, The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science		 ​Observations of Agulhas Current meanders, their Origins and Fate ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​2 Mar ​Associate Professor Mathieu Rouault
Nansen Tutu Center for Marine Environmental Research and Dept of Oceanography, UCT		 ​Are Eastern Boundary Upwellings cooling or warming? ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​9 Mar Dr Fabrice Collard
Oceandata Laboratory and Ifremer, France		 ​Advance  in the quantitative estimation of ocean surface currents from satellite sensor synergy
 ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​23 Mar ​Ms Larvika Singh
Fisheries Branch, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries		 ​The SEAFO Cruise Update ​13h00 ​DAFF Seminar Room, 5th Floor,  Foretrust Building ​MA-RE SANCOR
​27 Mar ​Professor Nox Makunga
Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University		 ​Confessions of a communicating scientist – how public engagement is shaping my research career and making me a better scientist
(RSVP rlm@sun.ac.za by 23 March)		 ​12h30 for 13h00 ​CREST, 5th floor of Wilcocks Building; c/o Ryneveld and Victoria streets, Stellenbosch CREST - ​Science Fridays @ Stellenbosch
​30 Mar ​Ms Flavia Flaviani
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Cape Town		 ​Ocean viruses: charting the depths of the unknown ​​​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​8 April ​Mr Dominic Rollinson
UCT Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology		 ​An Antarctic Adventure ​13h00 ​John Day Building, 3rd Floor, Zoology Museum ​UCT Biological Sciences Department
​20 Apr ​Dr Sarah Fawcett
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University		 Nitrogen cycle insights into the Antarctic Ocean’s biological pump ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​21 Apr ​Dr Parvez Alam
Composite Materials and Biostructures, Åbo Akademi University, Finland		 ​Biomimetics - where size really matters ​13h00 ​UCT LT2 Molecular Biology Building ​​UCT Biological Sciences Department
​22 Apr ​Dr Thomas Wernberg
UWA Oceans Institute & School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia		 ​Marine heat waves: drivers, signatures and ecological impacts ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​23 Apr ​Dr Joaquin Trinanes
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Miami, USA		 ​NOAA Operational Satellite Products ​9h30 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​Oceanography Department
​23 Apr ​Dr Shenfu Dong
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Miami, USA		 ​Contributions of the XBT Network to Our Understanding of the MOC in the South Atlantic ​10h30 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​Oceanography Department
4 May​ ​Professor Lynnath Beckley
Academic Chair (Marine Science),
School of Veterinary & Life Sciences,
Murdoch University, Australia		 ​Biological oceanography of the Leeuwin Current ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​11 May ​Professor Michael J. Roberts
Program Leader: Observational & Operational Oceanography
Head of Research Group: Physical & Applied Oceanography
Oceans and Coasts Research
Department of Environment Affairs		 ​The Western Indian Ocean Upwelling Research Initiative (WIOURI)- A Flagship project of the new International Indian Ocean Expedition 2 (IIOE2) (2016-21) ​​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​18 May ​Dr Pedro M. Scheel Monteiro
Head: Ocean Systems & Climate
CSIR-CHPC		 ​What have we learned from 5 years of Seasonal Cycle thinking, observing and modelling in the Southern Ocean? ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​1 June ​Mr Patrick Vianello
UCT Oceanography Department		 ​A Qualitative and Physical Analysis of Processes around the Mascarene Plateau
 ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​2 June ​Dr Christopher Mah
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC		 ​What's so important about Deep-Sea Diversity? A survey of slime stars, deep-sea corals, hydrothermal vents and more! 18h00​ ​Two Oceans Aquarium SAEON, DST, SeaKeys and TOA​
​5 June ​Dr Olivier Maury
IRD–ICEMASA and UCT		 ​Can we build a “physics-like” theory of marine ecosystems? ​12h30 ​Duncan Elliot Seminar Room, RW James Building ​UCT Centre for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
​5 June ​Dr Stefan Simis
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK & Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Helsinki, Finland		 ​Phytoplankton products derived from automated along-track hyperspectral reflectance: do we need satellites? ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room UCT Oceanography
​10 June ​Dr Christopher Mah
Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC		 ​New perspectives in Starfish Phylogeny: Data from Phylogenomics and Paleontology ​13h00 ​Museum, 3rd floor, John Day Building ​UCT Biological Sciences
​22 June ​Mr Martin Purves
Southern Africa Programme Manager
Marine Stewardship Council		 ​​Environmental and social benefits of certification: the South African hake trawl fishery ​13h00 ​Foretrust Building, 6th Floor, HR Training Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​9 July ​Dr Carryn de Moor
UCT Department of Maths & Applied Maths		 ​Assessing the South African sardine resource:
two stocks rather than one?		 ​13h00 UCT ​Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​20 July ​Assoc Prof David Schoeman
Dept of Biostatistics, University of the Sunshine Coast		 ​Connecting the dots in marine climate-change ecology ​12h00 ​New Life Sciences Building, 5th Floor, Core 2, UWC ​Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, UWC
​24 July ​Prof Elizabeth Wasserman
Stellenbosch University		 ​tbc - Introducing young children to science and the process of research 12h30 for 13h00​

​CREST, 5th floor of Wilcocks Building (Room 4043 & 4045) ; c/o Ryneveld and Victoria streets, Stellenbosch

​Science Fridays @ Stellenbosch;

RSVP rlm@sun.ac.za

​27 July ​Associate Professor Mathieu Rouault
Nansen Tutu Center for Marine Environmental Research and Dept of Oceanography, UCT		 ​The 2010/2011 Benguela Nino
 ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​​MA-RE SANCOR
​3 August ​Dr Christophe Maes
IRD, France		 ​Vertical stratification of the upper ocean: documenting the specific role of the Salinity in the Tropics ​13h00 ​UCT ​Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​26 August ​Various Speakers ​Tracking Implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) in South Africa ​9h00 ​Kramer Lecture Theatre 3, Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus, University of Cape Town ​WWF South Africa, the Responsible Fisheries Alliance & UCT
​31 August Mr Jarred Voorneveld
AND
Ms Katherine Leigh Moffett
Oceanography Department, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

A study of the variability of the Agulhas Retroflection

AND

Comparison between two sets of Argo float trajectories released into the Agulhas Current in 2013

 ​13h00 ​UCT ​Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​14 September ​Dr Els Vermeulen
SANCOR Postdoctoral Fellow, Sea Search and Whalefish
 ​On the population status of bottlenose and humpback dolphins ​13h00 ​UCT ​Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​18 September ​Various speakers ​A global snapshot of current research in science communication ​14h00 ​CREST (Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology)
Stellenbosch University		 ​Science Fridays @Stellenbosch
​21 September ​Associate Professor J Alan Clark
Department of Biological Sciences, New York, USA		 ​Socially Facilitated Breeding Behavior in Colonial Birds ​13h00 ​​UCT Molecular Biology Building, LT1 ​UCT Biological Sciences
​28 September ​Dr Eleonora Puccinelli
Postdoctoral Fellow, Coastal Research Group, Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University		 ​Upwelling effects on the diet of filter feeders in the Benguela ecosystem. ​13h00 ​UCT ​Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​2 October ​Prof Arie Rip
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Twente, Netherlands		 ​Responsible Research & Innovation – containing the force of knowledge? ​12h30 for 13h00 ​CREST, Stellenbosch University (Room 4043; 5th floor of Wilcocks Building; c/o Ryneveld and Victoria streets, Stellenbosch)

​Science Fridays @Stellenbosch

 

RSVP rlm@sun.ac.za

​12 October ​Professor Isabelle Dadou
University of Toulouse, France		 ​Coupling between Physics and Biogeochemistry in the Benguela Upwelling System
(Nitrogen and Oxygen cycles, Oxygen Minimum Zone, Productivity)		 ​13h00 ​UCT ​Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​26 October
(postponed)		 ​Dr Marjolaine Krug
CSIR		 ​Preliminary results from the Shelf Agulhas Glider Experiment (SAGE) ​13h00 ​UCT ​Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​2 November
(cancelled)		 ​Mr Peter MacKinnon
Biomark, USA		 ​The use of Passive Integrated Transponders to tag fish species ​13h00 ​UCT PD Hahn 6.6, Cas Troskie Room ​MA-RE SANCOR/SEEC
​5 November ​Prof Arne Biastoch
GEOMAR		 ​Agulhas leakage contributes to warming in the Atlantic Ocean ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​9 November ​Prof John Field
MArine REsearch (MA-RE) Institute
University of Cape Town		 ​Indian Ocean Research in 1964 and in 2020 ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​12 November ​Dr Ken Findlay
University of Pretoria, Mammal Research Institute, Whale Unit		 ​The MRI Whale Unit – Why we do the research we do ​18h30 for 19h00 ​Two Oceans Aquarium, V&A Waterfront ​Two Oceans Aquarium
RSVP members@aquarium.co.za
​16 November ​Mr Craig Smith
Director: Small-Scale Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Branch: Fisheries Management

​Small-scale fisheries:
from policy to implementation

 

(presentation slides available here)

 ​13h00 ​HR Training Room, 6th Floor of Foretrust Building ​MA-RE SANCOR
​19 November ​Dr Yonss Jose
GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany		 ​Oxygen minimum zones of the tropical south Pacific ​Oxygen minimum zones of the tropical south Pacific ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​23 November ​Prof Kevern Cochrane
Rhodes University

​Ecosystem approach to fisheries: common sense as a concept

(Presentation slides available here)

 ​13h00 ​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​MA-RE SANCOR
​2 December ​Dr Sophie Seeyave
Executive Director, POGO		 ​The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and its relevance to South African scientists ​13h00 ​​UCT Oceanography Seminar Room ​CSIR-UCT
​6 December ​Dr Laura Blamey
UCT-NRF Research Career Advancement Fellow		 ​Climate and anthropogenic effects on kelp systems in the southern Benguela: a work in progress ​13h00 ​Museum, 3rd floor, John Day Building, Upper Campus ​UCT Biological Sciences
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