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  • Mother Earth Day, 22 April 2023

    Posted on April 20, 2023

    Celebrating Mother Earth day by showcasing South Africa's river network

  • Seasonal forecast for January 2023 available

    Posted on January 17, 2023

    This month’s JFM forecast is showing an increased likelihood of drier than normal conditions over the area that includes part of South Africa (northeast), Botswana, Namibia and Mozambique. However, the FMA forecast is more optimistic for a late summer season that will be wetter than normal....

  • SALDi seminar 4 October

    Posted on September 25, 2022

    The Centre for Environmental Studies (CFES) at the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology invites you to attend the Seminar on “Development of earth observation data cubes for monitoring land degradation processes in South Africa”. The seminar will be presented by Dr...

  • New book on Remote Sensing of African Mountains-Geospatial Tools Toward Sustainability

    Posted on September 20, 2022

    Prof Abel Ramoelo, Director for the Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Pretoria was one of the Guest Editors for the book entitled “Remote Sensing of African Mountains: Geospatial Tools Toward Sustainability”. The book was co-edited with academics from the University of...

  • UPGRADE Internship program to Florida International University (FIU)

    Posted on July 04, 2022

    The University Partnership to Grow Administration and Education (UPGRADE) set out to enhance university partnerships between the US and South Africa and focuses on increasing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) capacity as well as improving the knowledge and skills in...

  • Seminar on Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), Research Funding and Collaboration opportunities with US Universities.

    Posted on May 06, 2022

    Join Dr. Lakhdar Boukerrou and Dr. Osama Mohammed from Florida International University (FIU) on Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 2pm (SAST) for a seminar on; Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), Research Funding and Collaboration opportunities with US Universities.

  • Celebrating Environmental Professionals Day

    Posted on April 13, 2022

    April 15 is Environmental Professionals Day. To celebrate this day, we asked Salome Beeslaar, and contract lecturer in environmental sciences in our department, to speak about her profession. Q: Tell us about your academic and professional background. I studied B.Sc Environmental Science...

  • The Department welcomes Professor Abel Ramoelo as the Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies (CFES)

    Posted on April 01, 2022

    Prof. Abel Ramoelo recently joined the University of Pretoria as a Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, and Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology. Prof. Ramoelo was trained as an environmental scientist with Geospatial skills - remote...

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