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 […]
Peter Ryan on Stoltenhoff Island with Nightingale Island in the background. Photograph by Norman Glass Peter Ryan, A-rated Director of the University of Cape Town’s Percy FitzPatrick Institute, has been awarded the Gilchrist Memorial Medal by the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR). Peter manages the Institute’s research on albatrosses and petrels […]
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SANAP mammalogists work with an Antarctic seal among the sea ice of the Southern Ocean, with South Africa’s Antarctic research and supply ship, the S.A. Agulhas II, standing by In October last year researchers participating in the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP) came together for a two-day strategic workshop to discuss a way forward […]
