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Herewith a list of the current NRF-funded projects within the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP)

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2021 – 2023

Research Project	Affiliation	Principal Investigator
SEAmester-South Africa’s Floating University	UCT	Prof IJ Ansorge
The Digital SA Agulhas II – Flagship for Vessel 4.0	SU	Prof A Bekker
Avian scavengers as indicators of recovery of an island biota	NMU	Dr MA Connan
Comparative microbial ecology of pan-Antarctic soils	UP	Prof DA Cowan
Marion Island Marine Mammals in Changing Environments: Individual Heterogeneity and Population Processes	UP	Prof PJN de Bruyn
Parallel cycling of nitrogen and iron in the upper Southern Ocean: implications for biological CO2 drawdown and global ocean fertility	UCT	Dr SE Fawcett
SAMOC-SA	Bayworld	Dr T Lamont
Africa, Antarctica and the Arts	UP	Dr CM Lavery
Polar Space Weather Studies	SANSA	Dr SI Lotz
Enhanced insights regarding the ecology, evolution and function of marine microbiomes	UP	Prof TP Makhalanyane
Ross seal ecology, behaviour and physiology in a changing environment	UNISA	Dr T McIntyre
Observing Dawn in the Cosmos	UKZN	Prof K Moodley
Seasonal Iron speciation in the Southern Ocean, from open ocean environments to naturally fertilized sub-Antarctic Islands (Marion and Gough Islands)	DEFF	Dr TN Mtshali
Landscape and climate interactions	UFH	Prof W Nel
Contemporary and Future Drivers of CO2 and Heat in the Southern Ocean	CSIR	Dr S Nicholson
Antarctic Legacy of South Africa	SU	Ms R Olivier
Influence of physical and biogeochemical processes on the Mechanical properties of Antarctic Sea Ice	UCT	T Rampai
Signal Processing and Control of a long-range Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Cetacean Detection in the Antarctic and Southern Sea	SU	Prof DJJ Versfeld
SANAE HF radar	SANSA	Prof MJ Kosch