SANAP_LCI

🇿🇦🇦🇶SA Polar Research Infrastructure News A DSI/DFFE/SAPRI/User fora meeting was held today, 21 Feb 2023 at the SAAO. The major stakeholders (DFFE, DSI, SANAP) and user fora chairs discussed -some urgent issues and - the SANAP/SAPRI/DFFE interactions. #SApolarRI #SAPRI

Article in @News24 about our work on #goughisland and the #subantarctic in general. Well done ⁦@theliezelq⁩ news24.com/news24/communi…

“Sometimes landmarks are used to identify these experimental plots, but these landmarks might not appear on a map—or might be marked as different features on different maps,” says Elizabeth Rudolph @UFSweb. eos.org/articles/geosp…

What a great session! Thanks to Prof Werner Nel, Principal Investigator of the NRF-SANAP funded project; Landscape and Climate Interactions - @SANAP_LCI This was informative and inspirational! Thanks for organising @apecssa. #SANAP #SANAPresearch #SANAPecrs #MarionIsland

Reminder of our last public lecture for the year.

New #OpenAccess #GeospatialData for #MarionIsland and #PrinceEdwardIsland includes maps, place names, topography & hydrology. #subantarctic @UFSweb @unisa @ResearchUP @ufh1916 #SDG15 bit.ly/3SiCgG9

Hot off the press! Published in the @SAJS_Official - An open access geospatial database for the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands | South African Journal of Science sajs.co.za/article/view/1… Well done @theliezelq for leading this paper and @SANAP_LCI & @marionseals83

Workshop: Sharing science data FAIRly to support interdisciplinary research collaborations 4 August, 15:00-17:00 SAST Poster: A geospatial database for the #subAntarctic #PrinceEdwardIslands by Liezel Rudolph, Lecturer and a founding member of APECS-SA 🔗virtual.scar2022.org/eposter-detail…

A culmination of our work on re-imagining Marion Island under ice during its last glacial maximum: “A spatial model of Marion Island's palaeo-ice extent”, available as open access bit.ly/3oSkY5I @Gap_10 @SANAP_LCI

Paper alert. Lead author @MiaMomberg did great work to investigate - Factors determining nest‐site selection of surface‐nesting seabirds: a case study on the world's largest pelagic bird, the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib… #marionisland #openaccess

*New Paper Alert* led by @MiaMomberg - Factors determining nest‐site selection of surface‐nesting seabirds: A case study on the world’s largest pelagic bird, the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… published in @IBIS_journal #marionisland #albatross

*New Paper Alert* Plant specialisation may limit climate‐induced vegetation change to within topographic and edaphic niches on a sub‐Antarctic island besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… #marionisland #subantarctic #niches #climatechange @GuyMidgley @UPEcology

A successful takeover for the @SANAP_LCI “Geos” on #marionisland. Many highlights but the most exciting part of our research was getting a 4.5m core from Maccie Bay. It could provide a wealth of information on landscape evolution since deglaciation #geomorphology #subantarctic

Congratulations to Prof. David W Hedding! He has been awarded a C1 Rating from the @NRF_News, an improvement on his previous rating (C2). Prof Hedding is the co-investigator of our LCI research group and a very productive #researcher in #geomorphology. Follow his work at @gap_10

Prof Werner Nel, PI of the @SANAP_LCI research group upgraded from C2 to C1 NRF-Rated Researcher ufh.ac.za/news/News/Prof…

1 Dec - #AntarcticaDay On the 1st of December 1959, Antarctica was set aside for peaceful and scientific purposes. Read more here: sanap.ac.za/antarctica-day… #AntarcticaDay2021 #COP26 #Research #climatechange #SANAP #emissionsreduction #GlasgowClimatePact #1point5degrees

Congratulations to Prof. Werner Nel from @ufh1916 who is the Principal Investigator of the LCI research group. He has been awarded a C1 Rating from the @NRF_News. This rating is an improvement on his previous rating (C2) and shows how Prof. Nel has elevated his #research.