Conservation Biology MSc class graduates!

12 Jun 2012
12 Jun 2012

Congratulations to this year's Conservation Biology MSc graduates! We didn't manage to get everyone into the photograph taken after last week's graduation - but nine out of twelve graduates wasn't too bad!
From left: Nikki Best, Dan Wright, Hlengiwe Mbatha, Jeremy Goss, Lauren de Vos, Christine Moore, Ed Rice, Emily Cressey and in front, Lovelater Sebele. 
Not in photo (see below, from left): Jenneca McCarter, Maurice Schutgens and Darlington Tuagben (Photo: Hilary Buchanan)
Jenneca McCarter

Maurice Schutgens
Darlington Tuagben

The Conservation Biology MSc graduates for 2012 are the following:

Nikki Best: 2012. The historical exploitation of chondrichthyans in False Bay, South Africa and assessment of their conservation status (Supervisor: Colin Attwood).

Emily Cressey: 2012. The conservation genetics of a newly recognized Cape Peninsula endemic: Rose's Mountain Toad (Capensibufo rosei) (Supervisors: Krystal Tolley, John Measey & Peter Ryan).

Lauren de Vos: 2012. Baited remote underwater video survey of reef fish in the Stilbaai marine protected area with an assessment of monitoring requirements (Supervisor: Colin Attwood).

Jeremy Goss: 2012. Human networks of tetrapod translocations in the Western Cape, South Africa: Trends and potential impacts on biodiversity (Supervisor: Graeme Cumming).

Hlengiwe Mbatha: 2012. Exploring the biodiversity and ecosystem service trade-offs associated with different livestock practices in the Enkangala grasslands, South Africa (Supervisors: Jeanne Nel, Belinda Reyers & William Bond).

Jenneca McCarter: 2012. Major histocompatibility complex diversity in an urban Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) population: Implications for conservation (Supervisor: Jacqui Bishop).

Christine Moore: 2012. Understanding highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in the Western Cape ostrich industry: did network dynamics enhance vulnerability? (Supervisor: Graeme Cumming).

Maurice Schutgens: 2012. Collisions and biases: estimating the impact of low-voltage distribution lines on the Ludwig's Bustard (Neotis ludwigii) (Supervisor: Peter Ryan).

Lovelater Sebele: 2012. Factors influencing the timing of breeding in a range expanding raptor at two spatial scales (Supervisor: Arjun Amar).

Darlington Tuagben: 2012. The vulnerability of the coast of Liberia to marine oil spills: implications for biodiversity and renewable natural resource utilization (Supervisors: Patrick Morant, Jane Turpie & Peter Ryan).

Daniel Wright: 2012. Significant population structure and little connectivity in South African rocky shore species: implications for the conservation of regional marine biodiversity (Supervisor: Jacqui Bishop).