Oceanography

The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Associate Professor Katye Altieri has received the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust’s New Frontiers Research Award for 2025 – making her the second ever winner of the five-year R7.5 million prize.

Welldone to, Dr. Faith February and Dr. Minto Dimoune who had the opportunity to represent the Oceanography Department at the recent UCT Postdoc Research Showcase on Monday, 10 March, 2025.

Prof. Chris Reason and Dr. Lynette van Schalkwyk, from the Oceanography Dept., along with 6 researchers from the Climate Research Group at Oxford University, installed the first weather station at Molopo lodge, near the border of Botswana.

Prof Babatunde Abiodun, Director of Nasen-Tutu Centre, and DST/NRF SARChI Chairholder in Ocean and Atmospheric Modelling, in the Dept. of Oceanography, UCT was inaugurated as a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF)