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September Saturday Student: Heather Forrer
Heather Forrer completed her undergraduate BSc degree at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2015, majoring in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and Marine Biology. She then went on to complete her...
September Friday Freelancer – Mariëtte Wheeler
Mariëtte Wheeler – regular freelancer for Antarctic Legacy of South Africa was born and bred a proud Pretorian girl. But my passion for the ocean developed throughout my childhood as my grandparents...
GOUGH 66 departed for Gough Island on 19 September 2020.
Gough Island is located at 40°S, 9°W – 2600 km from East Pier, Cape Town Harbour. (Image above by Christopher Jones currently onthe Island) South Africa has been operating a weather station on Gough...
DEFF: International Series to be filmed on Marion Island
Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries Media Release: International wildlife documentary series to be filmed on Marion Island - 16 September 2020 Following a rigorous approval...
DEFF: SA Agulhas II will depart for Gough Island under strict health protocols
Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries : Media Statement - 15 September 2020 : SA Agulhas II will depart for Gough Island under strict health protocols: The 2020 annual SA Agulhas II...
Sunday Science: Rethinking the Antarctic Gateways
Antarctic cities and the global commons: Rethinking the Gateways – project by Institute for Culture and Society. How we care for Antarctica is key to the planet’s future. As pressures on the...
Saturday Student: Rudzani Silima
Rudzani Silima (Rudzi) have from a young age, always known that she would pursue a career in environmental conservation and science. “I grew up in the very small town of Louis Trichardt, surrounded...
Friday Freelancer: Sandra Durand
A friend of mine once told me that I am a borne civil servant, and it turns out she was right. Although I got accepted at the University of the Free State to study civil engineering after I...
September Saturday Student: Heather Forrer
Heather Forrer completed her undergraduate BSc degree at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2015, majoring in Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and Marine Biology. She then went on to complete her Honours degree at UCT in 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Fawcett...
September Friday Freelancer – Mariëtte Wheeler
Mariëtte Wheeler – regular freelancer for Antarctic Legacy of South Africa was born and bred a proud Pretorian girl. But my passion for the ocean developed throughout my childhood as my grandparents lived in Knysna. In my late teens I found myself staring at the...
GOUGH 66 departed for Gough Island on 19 September 2020.
Gough Island is located at 40°S, 9°W – 2600 km from East Pier, Cape Town Harbour. (Image above by Christopher Jones currently onthe Island) South Africa has been operating a weather station on Gough Island since 1956. The first overwintering team consists of 4 members...
DEFF: International Series to be filmed on Marion Island
Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries Media Release: International wildlife documentary series to be filmed on Marion Island - 16 September 2020 Following a rigorous approval process that involved key stakeholders, the Department of Environment,...
DEFF: SA Agulhas II will depart for Gough Island under strict health protocols
Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries : Media Statement - 15 September 2020 : SA Agulhas II will depart for Gough Island under strict health protocols: The 2020 annual SA Agulhas II relief voyage to Gough Island will depart on 17 September 2020 under...
Sunday Science: Rethinking the Antarctic Gateways
Antarctic cities and the global commons: Rethinking the Gateways – project by Institute for Culture and Society. How we care for Antarctica is key to the planet’s future. As pressures on the continent increase, five gateway cities will become critical to its future....
Saturday Student: Rudzani Silima
Rudzani Silima (Rudzi) have from a young age, always known that she would pursue a career in environmental conservation and science. “I grew up in the very small town of Louis Trichardt, surrounded by nature. Having a great attitude in subjects such as science, math,...
Friday Freelancer: Sandra Durand
A friend of mine once told me that I am a borne civil servant, and it turns out she was right. Although I got accepted at the University of the Free State to study civil engineering after I matriculated, at the time my parents lacked the financial means for me to go...
Monday Men: Nish Devanunthan
Nish Devanunthan is the Director of Southern Oceans & Antarctic Support in the Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries: Oceans & Coasts. Nish hails from a small town in Kwazulu Natal on the North Coast. Nish spent the first 10 years of his...
SANAP celebrates Women in Antarctica on SA National Women’s Day!
On South Africa’s National Women’s Day we celebrate all the women involved in the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP). In the 60 years since the vents of 1956, the phrase has...
SCAR2020 online – South African participating in Online Conference
SCAR2020 Online starts on Monday 27th July with related events, with the conference starting on Monday 3rd August till 7th August with an APECS workshop from 11-13 August2020. “ SCAR’s Open Science Conferences have been a focal point for the Antarctic research...
Sunday Science: SEAmester Programme
The SEAmester programme is a marine science winter school founded by Prof. Isabelle Ansorge of UCT which takes place at sea and provides the perfect platform for coupling both academic...
Saturday Student: Tahlia Henry
Where did it all started for Tahlia: “From an early age I have had an unbridled passion for the ocean and understanding technology, which led me to pursue my studies in Oceanography at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). I chose to study here as it...
Friday Freelancer: Stephen Peel
Stephen involvement in SANAP started back in 2016 when he was a student at UCT. He was working towards his Honours degree in Environmental Management when he came across the SEAmester programme and the opportunity to go to sea. “I applied and successfully made it into...
Wednesday Women: Isabelle Ansorge
Isabelle as a child always wanted to be an oceanographer. “When I was 13 my father sent me off for 6 months on a Tall Ship to sail around Africa. And so, having grown up on sailing ships and sailing the world at a very...
Monday Men : Greg Hofmeyr
Family hikes and visits to game reserves instilled in me a keen interest in the natural world at an early age. This led to a BSc and BSc hons in Zoology at the University of the Witwatersrand. This was followed by the first of three year-long expeditions to Marion...
SANAP Collaboration during COVID-19 – An Online Presence
The SANAP symposiums is: “..the perfect platform for diverse disciplines to "cross-fertilise" ideas often leading to collaborations. It is an exciting community; the people are so different, but the focus is on the same...
Sunday Science: Space Science- Aurora Australis
"Auroras provide direct visual evidence that the atmosphere is shielding life on Earth from the radiation hazards of space." - Michael Kosch, SANSA. Today Overwintering Teams are celebrating Midwinter. With this in mind we would like to share some information on...
Saturday Student: Luca Stirnimann
Luca Stirnimann received his BSc at the University of Genova (Italy) in 2013, majoring in Environmental Science. He was introduced to his first marine applications of ecology and taxonomy during a summer school spent on the Linosa Island (Mediterranean Sea) as an...
Friday Freelancer : Sydney Cullis
Sydney Cullis’s hobby turned out to be a bonus for the preservation of the Legacy of South Africa in the Antarctic region. " It all started in 1993 when our son, James, was in Matric he had to produce a talk for one of the school societies and, as the Fiennes/Stroud...
