SAEON launches data catalogue

The catalogue makes 2 249 records available for viewing and download. This marks a significant milestone in achieving SAEON’s objective of providing open access to earth and environmental observation data for South Africa.

Science and technology in action

Joining forces to boost science, technology and innovation in Mpumalanga

SAEON signed a landmark agreement with the University of Mpumalanga, which is set to benefit the broader societal and environmental landscape in which both are embedded.

Join the SAEON team as Managing Director

The National Research Foundation is seeking a visionary, well-networked systems thinker with excellent leadership and managerial skills and a demonstrable record of scholarly accomplish- ment. Closing date: 6 August 2021.

Rethinking the value of historical photograph collections to the LTER network

The sudden loss of irreplaceable archives of historical landscape photographs in a natural disaster has highlighted their value, especially for long-term ecological research programmes.

Fuzzy logics, digital soil mapping and hydropedological behaviour of Cathedral Peak research catchments

Information obtained from the mapping of the hydropedological soil groups and the interactions between these groups will further enhance land use and water management planning in these areas.

Tierberg and Wolwekraal to become satellite sites to the Garden Route Gateway EFTEON landscape

The Arid Lands Node team are inviting researchers and students to get in touch with them for a visit to these historic sites or to conduct long-term environmental research in the arid lands.

SAEON adopts coastal area and pledges to keep it clean

During Operation Clean Spot, staff, students, family members and learners from the SAEON Elwandle Node, the Sustainable Seas Trust, the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity and Lungisa High School joined forces to collect waste from SAEON’s “clean spot”.

Science Meeting 2021: Re-examining the core business of SAEON

SAEON staff from across the country gathered to exchange ideas and foster new approaches to long-term observations, research, real-time data handling and science engagement during this year’s virtual science meeting.

Message from the MD

Humble, but huge

SAEON’s MD pays tribute to Dr Nicky Allsopp, the first manager of the Fynbos Node, who has bequeathed South Africa with a huge legacy of new knowledge and ecosystem research infrastructure and capacity. Nicky established a network of Regular LTER sites in the Fynbos Region – stretching from the Cedarberg in the Western Cape to Kouga in the Eastern Cape.

Building vital capacity

SAEON celebrates Earth Day… virtually

The science engagement team used this celebration to launch the SAEON Kids iNaturalist competition, where learners upload pictures of different species to showcase biodiversity and stand a chance to win prizes.

SAEON postgrads get to grips with public engagement

Dr Marina Joubert presented a public engagement masterclass to members of SAEON’s Graduate Student Network. She describes them as “a new generation of young scientists willing to engage with diverse public audiences and see value in doing so”.

SAEON in the media

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

“The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty.”

~ Van Jones, news and political commentator, author and lawyer

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