{"id":326,"date":"2024-04-04T11:54:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:52:39","slug":"projects-and-programmes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/projects-and-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Projects and programmes[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FMM group at Stellenbosch is involved in or hosts a number of research projects and\/or programmes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>The Hans Merensky EucXylo Chair<\/h1>\n<p>The Hans Merensky Legacy Foundation is the main funder of the Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Growth and Wood Formation (EucXylo), and the associated IMPACT Open-Air Laboratory. Prof Dave Drew holds this Chair. Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/\">http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/<\/a> for more information about EucXylo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344\" style=\"width: 941px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-344\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2024\/04\/Gugu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"941\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2024\/04\/Gugu1.jpg 1002w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2024\/04\/Gugu1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2024\/04\/Gugu1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2024\/04\/Gugu1-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 941px) 100vw, 941px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Mokhele, President of the HMLF, with PhD candidate Ms Gugu Gama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>The Cederberg <em>Widdringtonia<\/em> project<\/h1>\n<p>THis project, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insu.cnrs.fr\/fr\/personne\/jonathan-barichivich\">Prof Jonathan Barichivich at CNRS (France)<\/a>, is looking in detail at the fascinating, ancient cedars which grow in a limited elevation band in the Cederberg range in the Western Cape of South Africa. The project will do analysis of tree rings, hoping to develop a chronology beyond 1000 years BP and also monitor selected sites with scientific equipment to understand the patterns of growth in these remarkable trees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3076\/3505134622_0172f1e5a4_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Pinus radiata RCambium growth and wood property model<\/h1>\n<p>This project is a small part of a research initiative funded in Australia by Forest and Wood Products Australia. The prototype RCambium model, which can be tested <a href=\"https:\/\/forestquality.shinyapps.io\/rCambium\/\">here<\/a>, is the main outcome of this work.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en] The FMM group at Stellenbosch is involved in or hosts a number of research projects and\/or programmes. The Hans Merensky EucXylo Chair The Hans Merensky Legacy Foundation is the main funder of the Hans Merensky Chair in Advanced Modelling of Eucalypt Growth and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10084,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}