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Baited remote underwater video - a new technique for monitoring False Bay’s icthyofauna

By attracting fish into the field of view of a remotely controlled camera, the BRUV technique records diversity, abundance and behaviour of species...

SAEON reef fish project receives prestigious international grant

For the first time ever in South Africa, a dataset will be compiled and standardised across all marine substrates and depth ranges of reef fish species...

Do plant traits hold the key to understanding climate change in the Cape?

The SAEON Fynbos Node’s comprehensive record of plant species traits and habitat is shedding light on the functional importance of traits in a changing climate...

Building a global network for observing biodiversity

Some 100 organisations are collaborating through GEO BON to improve biodiversity observations globally and make their data, information and forecasts more readily accessible to users...

Understanding global change

Read the highlights from the Minister of Science and Technology’s address at South Africa’s National Global Change Conference...

Jonkershoek weirs restored

SAEON’s Fynbos Node has pulled out all stops to safeguard the integrity of the data collected at this important catchment...

Putting SA on the map in deep-sea research

SAEON’s Dr Lara Atkinson reports on her participation in the 13th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium held in New Zealand...

Distributed charting services

SAEON has completed development work on a web application for the on-line creation of charts and tables...

All aboard?

The U.S. Consulate invited secondary school learners in the SAEON Egagasini education network on board the R/V Knorr - to learn more about marine research...

Gough relief cruise report

When the SA polar research vessel, Agulhas II, embarked on its voyage to Gough Island to conduct oceanographic research in the Southern oceans, SAEON was on board...

Southern Oceans - it is the little things that count

Learners were taken on a tour of marine research laboratories, the SA Agulhas II and the Two Oceans Aquarium to explore marine biodiversity...

Empowering students through conference networking

Postgraduate student Colin Tucker reports on Australia’s first Student Conference on Conservation Science, hosted by the University of Queensland ...

SAEON in the media

SAEON’s people and projects received coverage in a wide range of media...

 

"In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)

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