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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
“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 Read more…
Monitoring the distribution of kelp We love kelp here at Cape RADD, if you haven’t gotten that by now then I don’t know what you’re reading. I try to use the word kelp in a sentence at least once a Read more…
Two Oceans We spend a lot of time in our Citizen Science day and biodiversity lectures speaking about oceanography and the Agulhas and Benguela currents. It is largely because of these two ocean currents that Cape Town sees such a Read more…
