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Marion 2020 Relief Voyage
UPDATE ON WAY FORWARD FOR MARION 2020 RELIEF VOYAGE - 2 April 2020. The Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) hereby wishes to inform all participants, principle investigators and...
SANAP CALL: The Importance of Data Management in a Research Project
The Call for SANAP Proposal submission is 30 April. It is important that within the proposal principal investigators need to look at data management. Below information to help with the...
Sunday Science – Reflections – Sound and Vibration of the S.A. Agulhas II
The Mid-Month series final for March is reflecting on Science projects on Sunday. The Sound and Vibration Research Group (SVRG) in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering is a...
Saturday Student – Kolisa Sinyanya
Every year new students are joining the South African National Antarctic Programme(SANAP). As Saturday is probably the time to break from studies, our first “Saturday Student” in the Mid-Month...
DEFF media release on Evacuation of Marion 76 Overwintering Team Members
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) clarifies the recent evacuation of the Marion Island 76 over-wintering members Media Release 13 March 2020: During the recent return leg...
Friday Freelancer- Alexander Oelofse
Our mid-Month Series also include those people that has become part of the SANAP community and do a lot of freelance and volunteer work for SANAP. Alexander Oelofse is becoming a well-known name...
Wednesday Women: Bettine van Vuuren
I completed all my science degrees at the University of Pretoria after some time at Wits studying law. I was fortunate to be appointed at Stellenbosch University in 2000, spent 2001 in France, and...
Monday Men : Thulani Makhalanyane
To start off SANAP Mid-Month series we have Thulani Makhalanyane as our first Monday Man. Thulani Peter Makhalanyane was educated at the North West University (Mafikeng Campus), where he completed a...
Marion 2020 Relief Voyage
UPDATE ON WAY FORWARD FOR MARION 2020 RELIEF VOYAGE - 2 April 2020. The Department of Environment Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) hereby wishes to inform all participants, principle investigators and support teams of the arrangements pertaining to the forthcoming Marion...
SANAP CALL: The Importance of Data Management in a Research Project
The Call for SANAP Proposal submission is 30 April. It is important that within the proposal principal investigators need to look at data management. Below information to help with the proposal. “The amount of time and money required for coding, checking,...
Sunday Science – Reflections – Sound and Vibration of the S.A. Agulhas II
The Mid-Month series final for March is reflecting on Science projects on Sunday. The Sound and Vibration Research Group (SVRG) in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering is a SANAP research project. The SVRG has established expertise,...
Saturday Student – Kolisa Sinyanya
Every year new students are joining the South African National Antarctic Programme(SANAP). As Saturday is probably the time to break from studies, our first “Saturday Student” in the Mid-Month series is Kolisa Yola Sinyanya or for those who are familiar with Twitter,...
DEFF media release on Evacuation of Marion 76 Overwintering Team Members
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) clarifies the recent evacuation of the Marion Island 76 over-wintering members Media Release 13 March 2020: During the recent return leg of the SANAE 58 voyage, South Africa’s polar research vessel, the SA...
Friday Freelancer- Alexander Oelofse
Our mid-Month Series also include those people that has become part of the SANAP community and do a lot of freelance and volunteer work for SANAP. Alexander Oelofse is becoming a well-known name within the SANAP community. His videos of SEAmester give a real insight...
Wednesday Women: Bettine van Vuuren
I completed all my science degrees at the University of Pretoria after some time at Wits studying law. I was fortunate to be appointed at Stellenbosch University in 2000, spent 2001 in France, and returned to Stellenbosch University in 2002 where I worked first as a...
Monday Men : Thulani Makhalanyane
To start off SANAP Mid-Month series we have Thulani Makhalanyane as our first Monday Man. Thulani Peter Makhalanyane was educated at the North West University (Mafikeng Campus), where he completed a BSc (Hons) degree in Microbiology. He then moved to the University of...
Gough Island Restoration Project is recruiting!
Gough Island is a remote, uninhabited island in theTristan da Cunha archipelago, in the South Atlantic Ocean, more than 1,500 miles from Cape Town. Naturally free of land predators Gough has been an idyllic nesting ground relied upon by millions of seabirds including...
Research Opportunity within BRICS : 40th INDIAN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTICA
INVITATION FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS 40th INDIAN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTICA (40-ISEA) National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, an Earth System Science Organization (ESSO-NCPOR & erstwhile NCAOR), under the Ministry of Earth Sciences...
SANAP Celebrates WorldWildlifeDay2020
On World Wildlife Day 2020, we will celebrate the special place of wild plants and animals in their many varied and beautiful forms as a component of the world’s biological diversity. World Wildlife Day in 2020 is celebrated under the theme "Sustaining all life on...
Early Career women in Science. International Women Science day 11 February 2020.
11 February 2020 was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and 8 March 2020 is International Womens day. Within the SANAP environment there are many women, this article highlight four early women career scientists. Liezel Rudolph is chair of the...
SANAE 58 returns to Cape Town with S.A. Agulhas II – 28 February 2020
S.A. Agulhas II returns from the South and will be in Cape Town 28 February with SANAE 58 on board
SANAP 2021-2023 – Framework document
South African National Programme (SANAP) CALL Deadline 30 April 2020 (NRF General Application Guide 2021; Grants Management and Systems Administration (GMSA) The South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP) Funding Instrument SANAP is a...
SANAP 6 th Biannual Symposium – June 2020
SAVE the Date for the 6th Biannual SANAP Symposium that will take place 22-25 June 2020. Read Gansen Pillay opening speech to the SANAP community at the previous symposium in Hermanus. Communication form the Director of Knowledge Advancement and Support (KAS),...
SANAP Research Grant Call closes 30 Apr 2020!
NRF General Application Guide 2021 -Grants Management and Systems Administration (GMSA)version 1 Published February 2020. During the last three years the National Research Foundation (NRF) has embarked on a process designed to enhance and simplify the NRF...
National Research Foundation announce the opening of the One Call for Proposals.
NRF One Call for Proposals 2020/2021 Opening Date: Monday, 10 February, 2020 Closing Date: Sunday, 31 January, 2021 NRF One Call for Proposals 2020/2021 During the last three years the National Research Foundation (NRF) has embarked on a...
SEAmester applications for 2020 now open
CLOSING DATE extended to 13 MARCH 2020 DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORMS SEAmester – South Africa’s Class Afloat aims to introduce marine science as an applied and cross-disciplinary field to students who have shown an affinity for core science disciplines. It will...
Gough Island Jobs 2020-2021
The next Gough Island Overwintering Expedition will depart from Cape Town in September 2020. This will be the 66th Gough Island overwintering team who will return to Cape Town in October 2021. Positions currently advertised: Senior Meteorological...
Gough Bunting December 2019 – January 2020
Gough 65 overwintering team now already 4 months at Gough Island. Team is Bubele Nongwejana, Thabiso Maphumulo, Gilbert Kgang, Errol Julies, Thendo Sikhwari, Siyasanga Mphehle, Dylan Seaton, Michelle Risi-Jones, Alexis Osborne and Christopher Jones. Read...
