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Today we would like to applaud the female scientists within the South African National Antarctic Programme. May you act as mentors and leaders for years to come!   Anché Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, 08 March 2018.

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Henry Valentine has been selected as one of two recipients of the inaugural COMNAP (Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs) Chairman’s Medal, in recognition of his work as COMNAP MNAP and as Director of the South African National Antarctic Program over many years. This award was announced at the first plenary session of the […]

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Graduation day: Dom Rollinson outside the entrance to the FitzPatrick Institute on the University of Cape Town campus Dominic Rollinson has this month been awarded his Doctorate by the University of Cape Town (UCT) for his study of seabird bycatch by pelagic longliners in the waters surrounding South Africa. Dom’s thesis research was co-supervised by […]