Posted on July 22, 2019
Staff and students of the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology spoke with Grade 9 learners of the Pretoria Girls High School on Monday, 22 July. The focus was on the importance of geography as a subject choice and how location and spatial awareness is part of all aspects of life.
Posted on July 11, 2019
Colette de Villiers, who is currently registered for her MSc in Geoinformatics, won the prize for the best oral presentation for a Masters student in the GIS/Remote Sensing category at the recent SSAG Students conference. The conference was held 8-10 July at the University of the Witwatersrand...
Posted on July 09, 2019
The latest seasonal forecast (July) predicts a weak of the central Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures. This suggests the occurrence of a weak to moderate El Niño event towards summer. From the CPC/IRI El Niño Watch in May: El Niño is likely to continue through the Northern Hemisphere...
Posted on July 01, 2019
The department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology will again offer an Introductory remote sensing short course from 25-27 September 2019. This course will be led by Mr. Philemon Tsele and is targeting beginners in industry who have the appetite to acquire basic knowledge and skill in...
Posted on June 10, 2019
The latest seasonal forecast (June) predicts a weak of the central Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures. This suggests the occurrence of a weak to moderate El Niño event towards summer. From the CPC/IRI El Niño Watch in May: El Niño is likely to continue through the Northern Hemisphere...
Posted on May 30, 2019
The Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Student Achievers event was held on 30 May. Five of our students were among the recipients.
Posted on May 29, 2019
We woul like to congratulate Prof Emma Archer in her new post as Acting Director of the Centre for Environmetnal Studies (CFES). Prof Archer has taken this post on as of May 1st, and she has commenced, with the CFES team, on the work of expanding the Centre's research outputs, as well as the...
Posted on May 15, 2019
Brenda-Ai Maina, a successful graduate of our BSc Geoinformatics in 2018, has been awarded one of the CONSAS Awards for 2019.
Posted on May 15, 2019
The latest seasonal forecast (May) predicts a weak warming of the central Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures. With regards to rainfall in the SADC region, areas most likely associated with favourable rainfall outcomes are mainly restricted to the southern and southeastern coastal and interior...
Posted on May 12, 2019
Alize le Roux and colleagues from the CSIR spoke to students and staff in the Department on 10 May on the use of GIS in developing the recently launched Green Book.
Posted on May 10, 2019
The final year geoinformatics and meteorology students visited Esri South Africa on 9 May 2019.
Posted on May 10, 2019
Izak Boshoff (IB) Foster, a quadriplegic student as a result of a high school rugby accident, graduated during the April graduation ceremonies with his MA Environment and Society degree. Mr Foster obtained the degree under the supervision of Dr Natalie Haussmann, from the Department of Geography,...
Posted on April 20, 2019
On Thursday the 4th of April 2019, CGIS YouthMappers from The Centre for Geoinformation Science visited St. John’s College in Houghton, Johannesburg to attend a mapathon to help map areas of rural Tanzania in the efforts to help alleviate female genital mutilation (FGM).
Posted on April 10, 2019
The latest seasonal forecast (April) continues to predict a weak El Niño into the Northern Hemisphere spring and summer (Austral autumn and winter). Favourable rainfall in the SADC region is restricted to the southern and southeastern regions.
Posted on April 09, 2019
Prevlan Chetty from GCS and GISSA, Samy Katumba from the GCRO, and Sirosha Budram from Hexagon Geospatial spoke to 2nd and 3rd year students enrolled in GIS courses on 8 April.
Posted on April 05, 2019
Two seasoned academics from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Prof Jan Verschoor (Biochemistry) and Prof Wentzel Schoeman (Chemistry) recently gave their own unique flavour to the term ‘soapbox’.
Posted on March 30, 2019
The department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology (hereafter, GGM) for the first time offered an Introductory remote sensing short course from 26-28 March 2019. This course, led by Mr. Philemon Tsele, targeted beginners in industry who have the appetite to acquire basic knowledge and...
Posted on March 20, 2019
Two researchers from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS) at the University of Pretoria, Dr Thulani Makhalanyane and Dr Christel Hansen, have been elected to the South African National Committee (SANC) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), an...
Posted on March 15, 2019
We would like to welcome Prof Emma Archer to our department, as well as Ms Azile Mdleleni as our Work Integrated Learning intern, and Ms Lauren Pijper, who will join us as the Academic intern for this year.
Posted on March 12, 2019
The latest March seasonal forecast continues to predict a weak El Niño into the Northern Hemisphere spring (Austral autumn). The south and southwestern parts of the Cape are also predicted to get more rain.
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