| 2/5/2021 | Prof Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Adjunct Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
| The cost of floods: how rising waters will reshape our lives and our economy
| | AIR Centre | 15h00 | |
| 2/9/2021 | Dr David Allan
Durban Natural Science Museum
Dr Alistair McInnes
BirdLife South Africa
| You win a few but you lose even more - Lessons from over 20 years of monthly waterbird counts in Durban Bay
| | BirdLife South Africa | 19h00 | |
| 2/10/2021 | Peter Manyara
MARPLASTICC Eastern and Southern Africa
| South Africa’s national plastics hot-spotting: A basis for action
| | SST’s African Waste Academy, in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology | 11h15 | |
| 2/12/2021 | David Obura CORDIO East Africa
| Coral reef biodiversity observation and monitoring networks
| | AIR Centre | 15h00 | |
| 2/17/2021 | Dr Isabel Richter
University of Plymouth, UK
| Human dimension of plastic pollution
| | SST’s African Waste Academy, in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology | 11h15 | |
| 2/17/2021 | Dr Kaylee Smit NMU, SAIAB, SANBI
| Essential ocean variables for global sustained observations of biodiversity and ecosystem changes (Miloslavich et al., 2018)
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Assessing marine ecosystem condition: A review to support indicator choice and framework development (Smit et al., 2021)
| Journal club meeting registration and details here.
| University of Zululand / ACCESS | 16h00 | |
| 2/19/2021 | Prof J Murray Roberts University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| Are cold-water coral reefs canaries in the coal mine of climate change, and what can we do about ?
| | iAtlantic | 15h00 | |
| 2/22/2021 | Prof Dr Antje Boetius AWI
Dr Helene Hewitt UKMet
Dr Pedro Monteiro CSIR
| Trends and changes to sea ice, Greenland ice & the cryosphere in general, and what this means to us everywhere else!
| | ACCESS Conversations on Climate Change | 16h30 | |
| 2/25/2021 | Mr. Mathieu Belbéoch and Mr. Anthonin Lizé OceanOps
| OceanOPS: International coordination and monitoring of the in situ met-ocean observing networks
OceanOPS will provide a review of its mission, goals and information system, including demonstration use cases of the web interface and available services and we look for direct feedback from the audience.
| | GOOS/OCG | 21h00 | |
| 3/2/2021 | Dr Madeleine Thomson Wellcome Trust Dr Caradee Wright
SAMRC Ms Bono Nemuluka
DoH
| Climate change’s biggest impact will be felt in human health and wellbeing – right?
| | ACCESS Conversations on Climate Change | 16h00 | |
| 3/3/2021 | Dr Olivier Bousquet
French Embassy
| Research activities in atmospheric, oceanic, marine ecology and climate sciences in the SWIO: Examples of recent projects initiatedin Reunion Island
| | CMR | 13h00 | |
| 3/4/2021 | | Join us for a short power-discussion with personnel and students of the Aquaculture Division at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa. This division is known for its wide ranging work on trout, abalone, aquafeeds, aquaculture genetics, water quality, best practices and more.
| | Aquaculture Africa Magazine | 15h00 | |
| 3/10/2021 | Angelique Pouponneau
SeyCATT
Leah Glass
Blue Ventures
Cheryl Rita Kaur
Maritime Institute of Malaysia
Lauren Drake
Pollination
Mat Vanderklift
CSIRO
| Towards a sustainable blue forest economy
| | CSIRO & IORA | 9h00 | |
| 3/11/2021 | Dr Devon Pearse
NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center/University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
| Fishing for answers in the age of genomics
| | OneNOAA Science Seminar Series | 21h00 | |
| 3/12/2021 | Jim Costopulos CEO and Founder of Global Oceans
| The Future of Ocean Science: Building Scale and International Collaboration
| | AIR Centre | 15h00 | |
| 3/16/2021 | Dr Avery Paxton Research Associate, NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
| Oases for Marine Life - Shipwrecks in 3D
| | OneNOAA Science Seminar Series | 20h00 | |
| 3/17/2021 | Dr Tom Slater Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University of Leeds
| | | OneNOAA Science Seminar Series | 19h00 | |
| 3/18/2021 | Nicole Raineault Chief Scientist, Ocean Exploration Trust
| Deep-Sea Exploration From Home: how students, scientists, and people anywhere can become ocean explorers
| | OneNOAA Science Seminar Series | 19h00 | |
| 3/25/2021 | | Climate change and the Endangered African penguin: SANCCOB’s involvement in important management interventions
| | SANParks | 13h00 | |
| 4/1/2021 | Dr Melissa Martin, Azwarina Mohd Azmi and Juariah Muhamad Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
| Linking citizen science and natural history specimens through effective education & displays
| | SAIAB | 9h00 | |
| 5/4/2021 | Dr Ashley Naidoo (DFFE) - panel chair
Dr Anne Cohen (Woods Hole, USA, ex-Cape Town) Dr Warren Joubert (SAWS)
Dr Richard Feely (NOAA, USA) Prof Sam Dupont, (U Gothenburg, Sweden).
| Everything you need to know about Ocean Acidification
| | ACCESS | 16h00 | |
| 5/4/2021 | Dr Enrique Álvarez-Fanjul Head of the Physical Oceanography Division at Puertos del Estado (Spanish Harbours Authority)
| Dialogues on Boundary Systems: #1: The Iberian System
| | GOOS/OOPC | 15h00 | |
| 5/6/2021 | Dr David A. Ebert
Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories; SAIAB Honorary Research Associate
| Beyond Jaws: Rediscovering South Africa’s Lost Sharks
| | SAIAB | 18h00 | |
| 5/17/2021 | | Be Belmont Applicable: Tips for successful Belmont Forum Grant Submissions
| | Belmont Forum | 15h00 | |
| 5/18/2021 | | Engaging multiple and diverse stakeholders in the Ocean Decade: the key role of national and regional stakeholders' networks
| | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO | 14h00 | |
| 5/27/2021 | Emeritus Professor John Bolton
University of Cape Town
| A Seaweed Revolution for Africa!
| | Aquaculture Africa Magazine | 15h00 | |
| 6/3/2021 | Dr Jessica Glass South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity and the University of Alaska Fairbanks
| Using the Micro to Understand the Macro: How Genetics and Chemistry Help Us Tackle Big Questions in Fisheries and Evolutionary Biology
| | SAIAB | 10h30 | |
| 6/7/2021 | Professor Elisa Morgera, the University of Strathclyde; Taryn Pereira Kaplan, Rhodes University; Dr Bolanle Erinosho, the University of Cape Coast; Professor Alex Kanyimba, the University of Namibia; Dr Tapiwa Warikandwa, the University of Namibia; Small-scale Fisher Leaders; Ms Angela Kariuki, the United Nations Environment Programme; Ms Nicole Franz, the Food and Agriculture Organization | Small-scale fishers and ocean well-being : vital partners in enhancing biocultural diversity, human rights and sustainable livelihoods
| | One Ocean Hub | 11h00 | |
| 6/8/2021 | Dr Bruce Mann
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Dr Ryan Daly
SAAMBR
| Evidence of the effectiveness of MPAs from two decades of research in KZN and the Eastern Cape
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Discovering Giant Trevally record-breaking migrations in South Africa
| | SAAMBR | 18h00 | |
| 6/8/2021 | Mia Strand, Professor Rose Boswell, Dr Nina Rivers and Jessica Thornton, Nelson Mandela University and Algoa Bay Fishing Representative
| Intangible cultural ocean heritage and participatory research methods
| | One Ocean Hub | 10h30 | |
