GGY 361 students visit Hydromulch, a soil rehabilitation company, to learn more about combatting erosion

Posted on October 25, 2024

On Thursday, 24 October, the GGY 361 students undertook a field trip to Hydromulch, a slope stabilisation and soil rehabilitation company located in Johannesburg. Here the group was led by Mr. Carl Noffke, who first explained the applications of various soil erosion mitigation measures. The group...

YouthMappers: Exciting collaboration with Digital Earth Africa

Posted on October 24, 2024

On September 17, 2024, the UP YouthMappers from the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics, and Meteorology hosted a dynamic training session in partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA). Led by Mpho Sadiki, an Earth Observation Data Scientist at DEA, this hands-on session introduced students...

Final year undergraduate students visit the iThemba laboratories in Johannesburg to learn more about radiocarbon dating

Posted on October 23, 2024

On Thursday, 17 October, the GGY 361 and GGY 363 groups visited the iThemba laboratories in Johannesburg to learn more about radiocarbon dating. The group was guided by Dr Stephan Woodborne, the Senior Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Scientist at iThemba LABS (Laboratories for Accelerator-Based...

Tough view for a conference!

Posted on October 17, 2024

SANParks-hosted GRIN (Garden Route Interface Network) meeting in Knysna

Seasonal Forecast for October 2024 Available

Posted on October 14, 2024

Above-normal mean maximum temperatures over the larger region are highly likely during spring.

Geoinformatics students presenting their work at the recent SSAG Student Conference

Posted on October 11, 2024

Nkosingizwile Ndlovu, studying toward her MSc Geoinformatics, and Dihan Calitz, studying towards his BSHons Geoinformatics degree, both attended the SSAG Student Conference at North West University. The theme of this year's conference was 30 Years of Change and Beyond: Geography, Democracy,...

UP and CSIR pioneer maps for maize farmers to enable precision weeding

Posted on October 09, 2024

In a first for precision agriculture, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers, in association with collaborators from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have produced maps of smallholder farms in Gauteng that highlight maize plants in green and weeds in red. The maps were...

The global hunger crisis remains a pressing issue

Posted on October 08, 2024

The University of Pretoria is actively engaged in the fight against hunger.