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Models developed by SAEON scientists and collaborators have demonstrated that, with further improvements, they could be used to inform fire and vegetation management in the face of the many global drivers of change.

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The connection between fog and fauna has fascinated scientists for over a century, giving rise to numerous studies in the Namib Desert that are reviewed in a recent publication.

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Fresh from a meeting of the Group of Earth Observations in Australia, the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Mr Buti Manamela, expressed an interest in seeing SAEON in action.

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The recent drought provided a rare opportunity to record how ecological disturbance interacts with drought as part of a seven-year survey by staff and students of the SAEON Ndlovu Node.

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UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development hosted a planning meeting in Kenya to identify concrete deliverables to meet the Decade's six societal objectives.

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SAEON intern Nasreen Burgher reports on the largest SA research cruise to date, consisting of 93 scientists and the first nationally integrated Southern Ocean programme, made up of multiple government and tertiary institutions.

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South Africa led IORAG for two successful years. In her handing over statement, SAEON’s Juliet Hermes highlighted the wide range of activities and achievements that took place during South Africa’s chair period.

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Two SAEON scientists were funded by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to participate in the third annual “Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices Workshop” in Belgium.

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SAEON’s Thulwaneng Mashifane joined other early-career scientists, students and experts from different parts of the world for the first international summer school on deoxygenation held at Xiamen University in China.

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Based on her experience in the field, SAEON’s science and society intern, Tania Duba, shares three essentials researchers cannot afford to miss when conducting qualitative field research.

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The node team was bolstered by the appointment of a new field technician and an office administrator, both with ample experience of the arid lands.

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The learning experiences gained at the 2020 MCEN Conference will find their way into SAEON’s new ‘Biomes of South Africa Educators Training Manual’.

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SAEON’s people and projects received coverage in international and national print, broadcast, online and social media.

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Swarms of up to 80 million locusts have decimated crops in East Africa, threatening food security for 13 million people. “Yet locust research has been conducted like studying bomb explosion impacts but neglecting to study explosives,” says SAEON’s Dr Joh Henschel. When asked why, Joh explains it is because explosives don’t do anything remarkable for over 99.999% of the time of their existence.” Read Joh’s article in the next newsletter.