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A new study has found that the Indian Ocean’s Agulhas Current is getting wider rather than strengthening. SAEON’s Egagasini Node is closely involved in this research through their Agulhas System Climate Array (ASCA) project. Several articles on the study have been published in India: Mumbai Online, The Economic Times – India Times, The Asian Age and One India. An article was also published in South Africa on Network 24.

The cover image of the November/December 2016 edition of South African Journal of Science (SAJS) was taken by SAEON postdoctoral researcher Dr Charles von der Meden using SAEON’s SkiMonkey III deep-sea camera. The image shows the seafloor around the Prince Edward Islands in the Southern Ocean. Dr Von der Meden led the 2015 relief voyage of the research vessel SA Agulhas II, during which the author of the SAJS article (on page 111) and colleagues collected marine sponges for analysis of cytotoxic activity.

An article on the Arid Zone Ecology Forum, written by SAEON’s Marco Pauw and Gina Arena, appeared in the November 2016 edition of the Prince Albert Friend newspaper.

“Africa’s spiny trees offer lessons in understanding the earth’s ecology”, an article by Gareth Hempson, research fellow at SAEON’s Ndlovu Node, was published in The Conversation of November 10, 2016. The author acknowledges the key contribution of Professor William Bond, SAEON’s Chief Research Scientist, to the research described in the article.