| 2/7/2019 | Hayley Mclellan
Two Oceans Aquarium
| Public Lecture: Talking
Trash and Solutions
There will also be a screening of Blue Planet II Episode 7 before Hayley’s presentation.
| SAIAB Lecture Room, Somerset Street, Grahamstown
| SAIAB | 17h30 | |
| 2/7/2019 | Hayley McLellan
Two Oceans Aquarium
| Free Public Lecture: Talking Trash and Solutions
There will also be a screening of Blue Planet II Episode 7 before Hayley’s presentation. The programme will be repeated on 8 Feb at 17h30 at the National English Literary Museum in Worcester Street.
| SAIAB Lecture Room, Somerset Street, Grahamstown
| SAIAB | 17h30 | |
| 2/12/2019 | Alexie Kalenga, Nozi Mbongwa and Stephanie Martin
Sustainable Seas Trust
| Education and capacity building - creating a waste-wise generation
| | African Waste Academy | 14h00 | |
| 2/13/2019 | Dr Trinity Ama Tagbor
Building and Road Research Institute (CSIR)
| Economic Enterprises and Incentives - Waste to Roads and Buildings
| | African Waste Academy | 14h00 | |
| 2/14/2019 | Steve Allen and Dr Dee Allen
University of Strathclyde
| Research - World Debut of Microplastics Aware
| | African Waste Academy | 14h00 | |
| 2/20/2019 | Emeritus Prof John Bolton
UCT Biological Sciences
| The seaweed revolution: biology, aquaculture nutrition
(Repeat of Gilchrist Memorial Lecture)
| UCT Upper Campus, John Day Building, Lecture Theatre 3
| UCT Biological Sciences | 13h00 | |
| 2/20/2019 | Dr Michelle Taylor
University of Essex, UK
| Deep-sea genomics - unravelling the mysteries of connectivity in the deep sea
| Colophon Conference Room, SANBI, Kirstenbosch
| SANBI | 13h00 | |
| 2/25/2019 | Dr Neven S. Fučkar
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| Elements of sea ice variability and predictability in the high north
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 3/4/2019 | Precious Mahlalela UCT Oceanography Department
| Key drivers for the early winter drying over the South African Western Cape region
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 3/5/2019 | Dr Annette SamuelsenNansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Bergen, Norway and Nansen Tutu Centre, Cape Town
| Biogeochemical operational modeling in the Arctic using the TOPAZ forecasting system
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 3/8/2019 | Dr Marcelo Kitahara
University of São Paulo
| Phylogenomics of the order Scleractinia: relationship between evolution and climate change
| Colophon Seminar Room, SANBI, Kirstenbosch
| SANBI | 13h00 | |
| 3/8/2019 | Prof Steven Chown
Biological Sciences, Monash University and Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
| Choosing our Future: Antarctic Science in a Global Setting
| | UCT Biological Sciences | 13h00 | |
| 3/11/2019 | Gabriele Messori Dept. of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden
| The West African Palaeo-Monsoon modulated by Dust and Vegetation
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 3/12/2019 | Dr Julie Deshayes and Dr Stephane Pous
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
| Ocean Changes: Climate variability and changes, with particular attention on the Greater Agulhas Current system
| Faculty of Applied Sciences, CPUT, Cape Town campus
| CPUT | 13h00 | |
| 3/14/2019 | | Sustainable seafood consumption in an African context
| | WWF-SASSI | 10h00 | |
| 3/15/2019 | Profs Karen Fillbee-Dexter, Thomas Wernberg, Kjell Magnus Norderhaug and AJ Smit
| Blue growth opportunities in changing kelp forests. Details here.
| DAFF Seapoint Research Aquarium
| SANOCEAN Blueconnect | 13h15 | |
| 4/8/2019 | Dr Julie Deshayes
CNRS-IRD
| | UCT Oceanography Seminar room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 4/9/2019 | Dr Sonja Matthee and Espinaze Pardo
Conservation Ecology & Entomology Department, Stellenbosch University
| Diversity of parasites associated with African penguins and environmental factors contributing to shape parasite communities
| Cape Research Centre Hall
| CRC - RSVP paulina.phophe@sanparks.org | 12h00 | |
| 4/15/2019 | Dr Anne Cohen
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Massachusetts, USA
| STRESSFUL
TIMES: Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene Ocean
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 5/6/2019 | Selena Flores
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town
| Measuring and mitigating disturbance of breeding White-fronted Plovers (Charadrius marginatus) in the Garden Route
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 5/13/2019 | A/Prof Marcello Vichi Marine Research Institute, Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town
| Sea-ice algal phenology in a warmer Arctic
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 5/15/2019 | Dr Eleonora Puccinelli Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
| Ocean ecosystem services in the age of the blue economy: the role of marine coastal biodiversity
| Lecture Room, SAIAB, Somerset St, Grahamstown
| SAIAB | 10h30 | |
| 5/17/2019 | | Love for nature will always Trump money... but only if communicated effectively
| 5th floor of RW Wilcocks Building, Rm 4303
| Science Fridays | 13h00 | |
| 5/27/2019 | Juliana KleinCentre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg and Molecular Breeding and Biodiversity Group, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University
| Reproductive philopatry in a coastal shark drives age-related population structure
| Fisheries Seminar Room, Foretrust Building
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 5/28/2019 | Prof Janine Adams
Chair in Shallow Water Ecosystems, Nelson Mandela University
| Present status of Swartkops Estuary and management challenges
| Bayworld, Port Elizabeth
| Know Your Bay | 17h30 | |
| 5/29/2019 | Dr Sandy Thomalla
Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observatory
| Do small scales make a big difference? A seasonal cycle approach to understanding carbon-climate linkages in the Southern Ocean
| NMU South Campus Council Chamber, Port Elizabeth
| NMU CMR | 13h00 | |
| 6/3/2019 | Dr Melissa Kay Boonzaaier-Davids
| Zoogeography of marine Bryozoa (Phylum) of South Africa, with novel taxa discovered in the historical backlogs
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 6/20/2019 | Saliem Haider
Stellenbosch Municipality
| When Day Zero is a reality for landfill disposal, and when lifestyle changes must become the norm in terms of waste minimisation
| | African Waste Academy | 15h30 | |
| 6/21/2019 | Fiona Preston-Whyte and Dr Adil Bakir
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK
| Data, in Support of Institutional and Individual Behaviour Change Regarding Marine Litter
| | African Waste Academy | 15h30 | |
| 6/24/2019 | Dr Julien Pétillon
University of Rennes, France
| Ecology, Functioning and Conservation of European Salt Marshes
Details & RSVP
| NMU South Campus Council Chamber, Port Elizabeth
| SARCHI Shallow Water Ecosystems and CMR | 12h00 | |
| 7/10/2019 | | The case for
embedding researchers in conservation agencies
| | CRC | 12h00 | |
| 7/15/2019 | Dr Eleonora Puccinelli Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town
| Ocean ecosystem services in the age of the blue economy: the role of marine coastal biodiversity
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 7/17/2019 | Juliano Palacios Abrantes
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
University of British Columbia, Canada
AND
Dr Philile Mbatha
Environmental and Geographical Science Department
University of Cape Town
| Marine Governance in the Anthropocene: lessons from South Africa and Latin America
(Details and RSVP here)
| | CST | 16h00 | |
| 7/19/2019 | Dr Guoyu Ren
China Meteorological Administration, Beijing; China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
| Observed change in mean and extreme climate on the African Continent
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 8/1/2019 | Prof Tommy Bornman
Dr Shirley Parker-Nance Gustav Rautenbach Rudzani Silima
SAEON
| - In the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton: Experiences during the 2019 Weddell Sea Expedition
- Our reefs, our fish and climate change
- The role submarine canyons play on upwelling
- The analysis of the southern Benguela upwelling system using a numerical model
| Weaver Inn Hall, Ocean Sciences Campus, NMU, Port Elizabeth
| SAEON, NSW | 14h00 | |
| 8/7/2019 | Ella-Kari Muhl Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town | Parks and People: Perceptions of Different Stakeholders to Changing MPA Regulations in the Tsitsikamma National Park
(Abstract here)
| HR Training Room, 6th Floor, Foretrust Building, Cape Town
| MA-RE SANCOR | 12h30 | |
| 8/7/2019 | Dr David Kaplan
Institute for Research Development (IRD), France
| Pelagic MPAs in the Indian Ocean: Potential and Perspectives
(RSVP and details here.)
| Lecture Venue 2, Ocean Sciences Campus, Port Elizabeth
| CMR, NMU | 14h00 | |
| 8/21/2019 | Prof Alan Whitfield South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)
| Seminar and Book Launch: Fishes of Southern Africa – From Species to System
| NMU Zoology Seminar Room
| NMU | 10h30 | |
| 8/26/2019 | Giskin Day Medical Sciences with Humanities, Philosophy & Law at Imperial College, London
| Playing for Education
Session on student engagement and active learning in the higher education classroom. RSVP here. | Den Bosch, 41 Victoria Street, Stellenbosch
| CTL & CREST | 8h30 | |
| 9/2/2019 | Dr Maya Pfaff Biodiversity & Coastal Research Department of Environmental Affairs: Oceans and Coasts
| Three decades of socio-ecological change in False Bay: setting the scene for multidisciplinary research and management
(Abstract here)
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 9/6/2019 | Prof Antony Knights Marine Ecology, Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Plymouth University AND
Dr Louise Firth School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, Plymouth University
| Can we link larval developmental mode and behaviour with performance and distribution?
AND
Eco‐engineering of the grey: making space for nature along urbanized shorelines
Abstracts here.
| Lecture Room, SAIAB, Somerset Street, Grahamstown
| SAIAB | 15h30 | |
| 9/18/2019 | Dr Jan De Vynck
NMU African Centre for Coastal Paleoscience
| A research synopsis of a Pleistoicene cape environment and the co-existence of humans
(Overview here.)
| Lecture Venue 2, Ocean Sciences Campus, Nelson Mandela University
| CMR, NMU | 13h30 | |
| 9/25/2019 | Dr Lawrence Hildebrand
World Maritime University, Sweden & International Ocean Institute, Malta
| The future ain't what it used to be:
Planning for and adapting to a changing world ocean
| SANBI Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Seminar Room
| IOI-SA | 13h00 | |
| 9/26/2019 | Dr Jean Harris
Executive Director of WILDOCEANS
| Reaching into the depths of the western Indian Ocean – exploring the habitat of coelacanths
(details here)
| Somerset Street, Makhanda
| SAIAB | 17h30 | |
| 10/9/2019 | Dr Louise Gammage
Marine Ecology & Fisheries Research Group; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town
| Development of a scenario-based approach for responding to change in fishery systems: a case study in the small-scale fisheries of South Africa's Southern Cape (abstract here)
| Niven Library, John Day Zoology Building, UCT Upper Campus
| UCT Biological Sciences | 13h00 | |
| 10/21/2019 | Prof Isabelle Ansorge
UCT Oceanography Department | Where are they now? - SEAmester-South Africa's Floating University four years on
(Watch this seminar live on http://meeting.uct.ac.za/sancor/)
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room | MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 11/1/2019 | Dr Gletwyn Rubidge
Chemistry Department
Nelson Mandela University
| | Drawing Room, 1st Floor, Bird Street Gallery, Bird Street NMU Campus, Port Elizabeth
| SARCHI Chair ISCIA | 14h30 | |
| 11/6/2019 | Professor Delphine ThibaultAix-Marseille Universite’s Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, France
| The Dark Side / the Bright Side of Jellyfish
(invitation to public lecture)
| TH Barry Lecture Theatre, Iziko South African Museum
| Iziko Museum/ Jellyfish Blooms Symposium | 12h00 | |
| 11/8/2019 | Giles Fearon
SAEON, DEFF, UCT
| Oil spill scenario modelling due to offshore bunkering operations in Algoa Bay
(details here)
| LV2, Ocean Sciences Campus, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth
| CMR, NMU | 12h30 | |
| 11/11/2019 | Tamaryn Morris South African Weather Service
| Argo floats, cyclonic eddies and the great Agulhas Current
(abstract here)
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
or watch live on http://meeting.uct.ac.za/sancor/
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 11/13/2019 | Dr Stephen Kirkman
Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries
| Dive behaviour and foraging effort of female Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus
(paper here)
| Fisheries Seminar Room, 5th Floor, Foretrust Building, Cape Town
| MA-RE SANCOR DEFF | 12h30 | |
| 11/21/2019 | Sabelo Mzileni, Kwa-Zulu Natal fisherman and Deputy Chair of Coastal Links KZN Elyse Mills, PhD student at Institute of Social Studies in the Hague and visiting scholar at PLAAS Junaid Francis, Sustainable Fisheries Manager, WWF and PLAAS student Prof Moenieba Isaacs, PLAAS/UWC
| Is there space for small-scale fisheries in the Blue Economy?
(details here)
| PLAAS boardroom, UWC
RSVP jvandieman@plaas.org.za
| Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies | 11h30 | |
| 12/2/2019 | Dr Ralph Tiedemann (University of Potsdam) AND
Dr Robin Waples (US National Marine Fisheries Service)
| DNA markers suitable for stock structure assessment
AND
Analysis of genetic data with an eye toward stock structure
| Room M212, Mathematics Building, UCT upper campus
| International Stock Asessment Workshop | 11h00 | |
| 12/3/2019 | Dr Jan-Lukas Menzel Barraqueta
Centre for Trace and Experimental Biogeochemistry, Stellenbosch University | Beyond the Antarctic continent: Climatic feedback loops from microscopic level to large marine mammals (details here)
| Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria St (in front of Company Gardens), Cape Town City Centre
| Society of Spanish Researchers in South Africa | 18h30 | |
| 12/9/2019 | Dr Brett Kuyper
UCT Oceanography Department
| Halocarbons at Cape Point – insights into climate change, ozone, aerosols and mercury
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 1/30/2020 | Prof Maureen Reed
School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
| Taking a principled approach to transdisciplinary scholarship
RSVP nondumiso.mginywa@uct.ac.za
| ACDI Meeting Room, Level 6, Geological Sciences Building, Library Road, UCT Upper Campus
| ACDI | 13h15 | |
| 2/13/2020 | Professor Graham Underwood and Dr Natalie HicksSchool of Life Sciences, University of Exeter
| Ecosystem Management: Building Resilience and Adaptability to Coastal Climate Change Effects
RSVP carlad@mandela.ac.za (details here)
| Lecture Venue 2, Ocean Sciences Campus, Nelson Mandela University, Port E;izabeth
| CMR | 13h00 | |
| 2/18/2020 | Dr Letizia Tedesco
Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Centre, Finland
| | UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| MA-RE SANCOR | 13h00 | |
| 2/26/2020 | Professor Lex van Eijk The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
| Modelling marine aerosols – a lifetime job
(Overview)
| UCT Oceanography Seminar Room
| UCT Oceanography | 13h00 | |
| 3/3/2020 | Dr Isabelle Charrier
French National Centre for Scientific Research
| Mother-pup recognition in Australian sea lion: from uni- to multi-modal processes
| The Broom lecture theatre, Department of Botany & Zoology, Natural Science Building, Stellenbosch University
| Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University | 13h00 | |
