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  South Africa / Norway Cooperation on Oceans Research including Blue Economy, Climate Change, the Environment and Sustainable Energy (SANOCEAN) Announcement of Norwegian Call for Applications for 2018 – 2023 Joint Projects South Africa and Norway have had a long standing partnership supporting joint research focusing on climate change, environment and sustainable energy (known as […]

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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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The Antarctic Legacy of South Africa launched its first book yesterday at an evening reception in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University. Brian Huntley’s Marion Island diary from 1965/66 “Exploring a sub-Antarctic Wilderness” tells what it was like to be a team member of the 21st and 22nd Teams as the botanist […]