SAEON's Graduate Student Network is growing
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- By Nikki Stevens, GIS/Database Manager of the SAEON Ndlovu Node in Phalaborwa and member of the GSN Committee
SAEON’s Graduate Student Network (GSN) is getting ready to host the first SAEON Student Symposium at the University of Cape Town in September. The 45 delegates who will be attending can look forward to highly professional and interesting poster abstracts which have been received from students representing a wide range of disciplines and institutions.
Prominent speakers at the Symposium will include the dynamic quartet Prof Steven Chown, Dr Gina Ziervogel, Dr Angus Paterson and Dr Guy Midgley:
Date | Speaker | Topic | |
Plenary speakers | 11 September | Prof Steven Chown | Long-term environmental research |
12 September | Dr Gina Ziervogel | Socio-economics and climate change | |
Field trips | 12 September | Dr Angus Paterson | Marine |
Dr Guy Midgley | Fynbos | ||
Workshops | 13 September | Dr Guy Midgley | Fynbos |
Dr Angus Paterson | Marine | ||
Dr Gina Ziervogel | Socio-economics |
GSN spiralling upwards and outwards
The GSN is at an all-time high as far as student membership is concerned, with no less than two new students from different institutions wanting to join the network on a daily basis.
Students visiting the GSN website will notice that it has been updated. Diane Southey, a member of the GSN Committee, has taken over the role of keeping the website up to date. Diane has also implemented an exciting new plan to offer students the opportunity to link their names to a webpage containing their academic profile. If they do not have one, the GSN will create a webpage for them.
Another plan that is in the pipeline is to profile a few students each month to introduce them to SAEON and GSN members, thereby encouraging more networking of graduate students within the GSN.
For more information on SAEON’s Graduate Student Network, visit www.saeon.ac.za/students.