Photo: The 75th Marion Island Overwintering Team (Photo Credit: Ben van der Walt)
Take-over voyage (06 April – 12 May 2018)
On board the vessel is the 75th Marion Island Overwintering team, take-over personnel, researchers, maintenance crew and ship crew.
The 75th Marion Island Overwintering Team:
| Name and Surname | Job Title | Job title as referred to by islanders | Affiliation |
| Liezl Pretorius | Field Assistant – Mammals | Sealer | UP (MIMMP) |
| Marike Louw | Field Assistant – Botanical | Botanist | UP |
| James Burns | Meteorological Observer | Metkassie | SAWS |
| Michelle Thompson | Field Assistant – Ornithological | Birder | NMMU (MAPRU) |
| Sean Movar | Field Assistant – Ornithological | Birder | Dept. of Oceans & Coasts |
| Bongekile Kuhlase | Field Assistant – Botanical | Botanist | UP |
| Maliviwe Melford Mnengisa | Medical Orderly | Medic | DEA |
| Danielle Z. Keys | Field Assistant – Ornithological | Birder | NMMU (MAPRU) |
| Charlotte Heijnis | Environmental Conservation Officer | ECO | DEA |
| Bukelwa Mavis Lekhesa | Communications Engineer | Radio Tech | DEA |
| Zinhle Shongwe | Meteorological Observer | Metkassie | SAWS |
| Sechaba Nyaku | Senior Meteorological Observer | Metkassie | SAWS |
| Welly Owabe | Field Assistant – Mammals | Sealer | UP (MIMMP) |
| Daniel Clarke | Assistant Environmental Conservation Officer | Assistant ECO | DEA |
| Stephan Keys | Field Assistant – Ornithological | Birder | NMMU (MAPRU) |
| Michael Voysey | Field Assistant – Mammals | Killer Whaler/Sealer | UP (MIMMP) |
| Vhuli Manukha | Space Weather Engineer | Space Weather Engineer | SANSA |
| Elsa van Ginkel | Field Assistant – Botanical | Botanist | UP |
| Dineo Mogashoa | Field Assistant – Botanical | Botanist | UP |
| Abuyiselwe Nguna | Field Assistant – Geomorphology | Geomorphologist | FH |
| Taunyane Michael | Diesel Mechanic | Diesel Mech | DEA |
| Dakalo Gangashe | Base Engineer | Base Engineer | DEA |
| Ben Van der Walt | The chaplain who will be on the island only for take-over, for support and guidance. | ||
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Scientific Projects on Marion Island and the surrounding Southern Ocean:
| Dr Azwianewi Makhado | Department of Environmental Affairs (Oceans and Coasts) | Bottom-up and top-down control of seabirds of the Southern Ocean: implications for conservation |
| Prof Jonathan Sievers | University of KwaZulu-Natal | Observing Dawn in the Cosmos |
| Dr Pedro Monteiro | CSIR – Natural Resources and the Environment | How storm characteristics in the Southern Ocean influence inter annual variability of CO2 fluxes |
| Dr Thato Nicholas Mtshali | CSIR – Natural Resources and the Environment | Seasonal evolution of biogeochemical Fe cycle in the Southern Ocean |
| Dr Sarah-Anne Nicholson | CSIR – Natural Resources and the Environment | The role of storms in shaping upper ocean physics and primary production in the Southern Ocean |
| Dr Sandy Thomalla | CSIR – Natural Resources and the Environment | An improved understanding of the climate sensitivity of the Southern Ocean’s biological carbon pump |
| Dr Michelle Greve | University of Pretoria | Invasions in the changing sub-Antarctic |
| Dr Peter le Roux | University of Pretoria | Modelling wind patterns and their ecological impacts |
| Prof Michael Kosch | South African National Space Agency (SANSA) | SANAE HF radar |
| Dr Stefan Lotz | South African National Space Agency | Polar Space Weather Studies (PSWS) |
| Dr Pierre Pistorius | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University | Southern Indian Ocean Top Predators: linking ecology, oceanography and marine spatial planning needs |
| Dr Maelle Connan | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University | Small Procellariiformes as indicators of ecosystem changes and plastic pollution |
| Prof ISABEL HOFMEYR | University of the Witwatersrand | Southern Oceanic Humanities |
| Prof Werner Nel | University of Fort Hare | Landscape and climate interactions in the sub-Antarctic |
| Prof Bettine Jansen van Vuuren | University of Johannesburg | Biocomplexity: Understanding biological patterns in space and time |
| Dr Katye Altieri | University of Cape Town | Biogeochemical controls on the sources and chemical composition of Southern Ocean marine aerosols |
| Dr Sarah Fawcett | University of Cape Town | A nitrogen cycle view of atmospheric CO2 sequestration in the Antarctic Ocean |
| Prof Isabelle Ansorge | University of Cape Town | SAMOC-SA |
| Prof Nico de Bruyn | University of Pretoria | Marion Island Marine Mammals: Individual Variation and Population Processes in Changing Environments |
| Dr Thulani Makhalanyane | University of Pretoria | Disentangling the role of chemolithoautotrophs in the sequestration of atmospheric CO2 |
| Prof Chris Reason | University of Cape Town | Southern Ocean influences on Western Cape Drought and Flood Events |
Click here to see the full list of 2018-2020 South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP) Projects.
Contact Us if more information about this voyage is needed.
Anché Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, 06 April 2018.
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