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The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa had a successful attendance at the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last week.  ALSA was represented at the conference by Principal Investigator John Cooper, Project Manager and Archivist Ria Olivier and Anché Louw, Science Communicator. In total ALSA presented four oral talks […]

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John Cooper, ALSA’s Principal Investigator, is attending the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week.  He will present a paper with the title  “Uncovering forgotten history: ship wrecks, fatalities and female pioneers at sub-Antarctic Marion Island” on Friday in a session entitled “Footprints in Antarctica, and Antarctica’s footprint: perspectives […]

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Dr Ryan Reisinger, a marine mammalogist and a SANCOR (South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research) post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University  (NMMU), Port Elizabeth, South Africa has been awarded a Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) 2016 Fellowship, announced today at the SCAR Open Science Conference being held in Kuala Lumpur, […]