
Dr Katye Altieri awarded the 2025 New Frontiers Research Award
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.
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UCT Postdoc Research Showcase
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.
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KAPEX 2025 – Chasing drylines across the South African interior
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.
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Professor Babatunde Abiodun inaugurated as a member of ASSAF
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)
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Upcoming Events

Doughnut Talk: Wednesday, 4 June
Please join us for our next Doughnut Talk taking place on Wednesday, 4th June in the Oceanography Seminar Room at 1pm. Presentations will be given by Wanjiru Thoithi, Amanda Masilela and Lillina Ruiters
4 June 2025
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