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Beautiful rayshading with R
rayshader is a new R package from Tyler Morgan-Wall that makes creating beautiful hillshaded maps dead easy! Check out this quick demo of Table Mountain I threw together.
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Can we use GIS to improve the Shark Spotters program?
Shark Spotters The Shark Spotters shark safety program began in 2004 as a Proudly South African solution to a surge in the number of shark sightings and shark bites that was occurring at the time. The program aims to provide environmentally friendly and socially responsible shark mitigation measures, one of Read more…
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A deeper look at abalone poaching in South Africa
Abalone poaching is a hot topic in South Africa, but what is it all about? What are Abalone? Abalone are a large species of snail found in temperate water environments in several areas around the world. They occur in Kelp forests and rocky reefs and play a very important role Read more…
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NEW Behavioural Research Project!
Examining the patterns of interactions between individuals in both single-species and mixed-species shoals, particularly in relation to group cohesion, polarisation, and information use, and how these differ with risk. In collaboration with Alicia Burns, Behavioural biologist at Taronga Conservation Society Australia and researchers at the University of Sydney, Australia, Cape Read more…
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Cape RADD Student Amanda Gardiner’s field course blog
This blog also appeared on the University of Washington’s Marine Biology Student Spotlight on 15 October, 2018. Hi everybody! I’m Amanda Gardiner, a junior here at UW pursuing a BS in Biochemistry and Biological Oceanography with minors in Marine Biology and Paleobiology, along with a BA in English – Creative Read more…
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Mike’s Cape Town activity recommendations for Cape RADD students!
Mike’s Cape Town activity recommendations for students! When Cape RADD students aren’t diving or in class they can take advantage of being on the doorstep of Cape Town, one of the most vibrant and action-packed cities in the world. There is so much to do in Cape Town you will Read more…
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Plastic free July diary 2018
Plastic free July Week 1 The first few days had gone well. I continued to carry my reusable bottle with me and we had become much more strict during our food shops. We checked out our new mall in Simons Town where we have a new Woolworths and Read more…
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Have you heard about plastic free July? Its not too late to take part!
There are great initiatives, events, global days and challenges to get us all to think and reduce our plastic waste. One of these is plastic free July which myself and Cape RADD are going to take part in. Plastic free July first started in Western Australia in 2011 and now Read more…
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NEW Nudibranch Range Extension in False Bay! Two Oceans Aquarium guest blog
This post originally appeared on the Two Oceans Aquarium blog, check it out here! Cape Research and Diver Development (RADD) is a local marine field station specialising in dive training and long-term biodiversity monitoring projects. The Two Oceans Aquarium is pleased to share the Cape ocean community with dedicated citizen scientists and marine Read more…
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Interpreting Shark Movement With Accelerometers
“How do I do that in R?”: Ethographer What’s an accelerometer? Next up in our series of tutorials is a revisiting of some ancient work that I conducted while earning a masters degree at the University of Cape Town. In this project I compared patterns of shark swimming behaviour that Read more…