Posted on February 20, 2020
Liezel Botha and Verosha Naidoo from Esri South Africa spoke to students enrolled in our 3rd year GIS 310 (Geographic Information systems) course on Wednesday, 19 February. The aim of the talk was to illustrate the usefulness of GIS and geospatial technology through applications.
Posted on February 19, 2020
Google Code-in (GCI) is an annual online competition aimed at introducing pre-university students (13-17 years old) to open source projects, development and communities, through short 3-5 hour tasks.
Posted on February 10, 2020
ENSO-neutral is slightly more favoured throughout this forecast period. Favourable end of season rainfall conditions are predicted for the central and southern parts of the region. The southwestern Cape region is predicted to have favourable early winter rainfall. Predominantly high maximum...
Posted on February 06, 2020
Latest T&L@NAS Bulletin (2020) now available
Posted on February 04, 2020
Andrew Hanson an BScHons Geoinformatics student participated in the 2019 DSIDE programme.
Posted on January 14, 2020
ENSO-neutral is favoured throughout this forecast period. Favourable rainfall conditions are mainly restricted to the central parts of the region. Predominantly high maximum temperatures are likely over the larger part of the forecast region.
Posted on December 10, 2019
The department held its annual year-end function, or in this case lunch, on Friday 6 December at the beautiful Bwelani Guest House. The function provided the opportunity for everyone on the department to get together and celebrate the achievements of the year. We would like to thank the...
Posted on December 10, 2019
ENSO-neutral is favoured throughout this forecast period. While parts of southern Africa received large amounts of rainfall during the first ¼ of December, the seasonal forecast models remain pessimistic about favourable rainfall conditions for the remainder of the mid-summer period. As such,...
Posted on November 28, 2019
GISSA Gauteng Awards and Annual General Meeting were held on Thursday, 28 November at the Tatso Lounge Bar at Time Square in Pretoria. At the award ceremony institutions and individuals that have contributed to geoinformation science, education or GISSA were acknowledged. During the AGM portion...
Posted on November 25, 2019
Are you a farmer who wants to make use of science-based seasonal predictions for your farm If you are interested to be part of an initiative at the University of Pretoria that involves the development of seasonal forecast systems for farms, specifically tailored to farmers’ needs, please...
Posted on November 12, 2019
The latest seasonal forecast (November) shows that the sea-surface temperature (SST) continue to show a weak positive SST anomaly on the date line. This relatively warm sea area on the date line can lead to anomalous convection there that can in turn give rise to El Nino-like impacts over...
Posted on November 10, 2019
Cameron Green, a Masters student in our Department, together with his supervisor, Dr Rautenbach, held a GeoNode workshop on 11 October. The event was held as the Department's participation in the World Commons Week (6 to 12 October 2019) and the workshop was open to anyone and registered for CPD...
Posted on November 01, 2019
Dr Christel Hansen and Michael Loubser, both lecturers in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), were recently voted onto the Southern African Association of Geomorphologists (SAAG)...
Posted on October 30, 2019
On Saturday 26 October staff and students from our department took part in the Mamelodi information day. This event, held on the Mamelodi campus, provided students from the physical sciences extended program the opportunity to hear about the transition into degrees at any of the university's...
Posted on October 28, 2019
This is a reminder that the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology will be holding our annual mini conference this Friday (1 November) in room 1-2 of the Geography building, Hatfield Campus. The conference will showcase our students' PhD and MSc research and is registered for...
Posted on October 25, 2019
Anzel de Lange, a PhD student in our department, recently attended the World Clean Air Congress in Istanbul, Turkey from 23-27 September. She presented work on her first PhD article entitled "Estimating PM Concentrations from a meteorological index for data-scare regions: A pilot study".
Posted on October 25, 2019
Not only did NATHouse win six awards at the annual Day and Faculty House Awards Ceremony hosted by the Division of Student Development (DSD) recently, but their Faculty Guardian, Dr Quenton Kritzinger, was also awarded as the Faculty Guardian of the Year. He also received this award in 2017.
Posted on October 24, 2019
The meteorology delegation to the 35th annual conference of the Society for Atmospheric Science was 20 strong this year. The conference was held a Riverside Sun, Vanderbijlpark on 8 and 9 October. The honors students presented their research results in poster and oral presentation format and Prof...
Posted on October 24, 2019
The 35th annual conference of the Society for Atmospheric Sciences (SASAS) was held in Vanderbijlpark from 8-9 October. Two postgraduate students from the Department of Geography Geoinformatics and Meteorology received prizes at this event. Moeletji Masango, a BSc (Hons) Meteorlogy students...
Posted on October 24, 2019
In September 2019, two alumni from the Department of Geography Geoinformatics and Meteorology joined the MetService in New Zealand as weather forecasters. Pictured here are Thapi Makgabutlane and Luis Fernades. The two of them make it 10 of our Meteorology graduates who have now joined the...
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