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Become a "Climate Buddy"  21 September 2009

Is climate change affecting our birds? Help us find out..., 18 August 2009

Call for volunteer divers to help monitor SA's marine resources, 29 June 2009

Media Coverage

2011

Aalsmeerse Renée Koper onderzoekt bultrugdolfijnen in Zuid-Afrika, Nieuwe Meerbode, 13 January 2011

Magic Planet Helps South Africans Illustrate Ocean Sciences, Global Imagination’s Winter 2011 Newsletter

2010

South African specialists find ways around bandwidth problems, Engineering News, 3 December 2010

AFRICA: Continent-wide data centre by next year, University World News – Africa Edition, 31 October 2010 

Africa to shrug off data-poor image, Africa – The Good News, 29 October 2010

Africa to get continent-wide data centre - Africa has to start looking beyond the data, conference hears, SciDev.Net, 28 October 2010

The value of snooping among snoek snapshots, Business Day, 15 October 2010

The fall and fall of Mapungubwe's riverine forests, The Water Wheel, June 2010

Getting excited about science, Grocotts Mail, 6 August 2010

Bay’s humpback dolphins under scientific scrutiny, The Herald, 3 August 2010

Fungi Foray,  Slow Food Mother City website, August 2010  

On assessing the effects of climate change and land (mis)management on the montane vegetation of South Africa, MRI News, May 2010

Marine research vessel launched, PE Herald, March 2010

Share in Marine Research with uKwabelana, www.MyPE.co.za, March 2010

Launch of ACEP coastal platform and ROV, SAIAB eNews, March 2010

Launch of ACEP coastal platform and ROV, NRF website, March 2010

2009

SAEON and CSIR establish multi-dimensional environmental data platform, CSIR eNews, December 2009

Is August the new September, www.news24.com, November 2009

Is August the new September, www.Wildlifesouthafrica.com,  November 2009

Is August the new September, The Citizen, November 2009

Is Augustus die nuwe September, Beeld, November 2009

Message in a bottle, Full Circle Magazine, November 2009

Is climate change affecting our birds, Kruger Park News, November 2009

Collecting Intelligence, Position IT, October 2009

Ecological Circuits 2, Position IT, October 2009

SAEON address change, Position IT, October 2009

Getting buy-in on SA's centralised spatial data platform, Position IT, October 2009

Birders, your country needs you, News24.com, 27August 2009

Rural science 'bright sparks' get low-down on marine life, PE Herald

Cape calls for volunteer divers, News24.com, 13 July 2009

Skubaduikers gaan seelewe help bewaar, Die Burger, 8 Julie 2009

City divers come to the party to assist scientists track climate change, Cape Times, 30 June 2009

2008

Group Dynamics, Meridian 08/09

SAEON lends a hand in moulding future scientists

New Environmental Platform, News@NRF, Fourth Quarter 2008