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Check out this amazing international effort, of which SEEC member Jon Colville is a part, to provide data from across the globe on crop pollination. Read the paper her

The 8th biennial International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will be hosted by SEEC and the Stats Department from 27 June to 1 July 2022 at the Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town. See the conference website

Exciting news! The International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) 2022 will be hosted by SEEC and we need your creative skills to help develop a logo for the event.

This month, Jack Fearey, an MSc candidate within the Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation and Sea Search group, will be joining Greenpeace on their vessel, the Arctic Sunrise, to go to the Vema Seamount. The Vema Seamount

SEEC alumnus, Raquel Garcia was recently part of a large team of international researchers who published a paper in Scientific Advances on standards for species distribution modelling.

Congratulations to Greg Duckworth and Alecia Nickless who both graduated with their PhDs this December. We are very proud of you! Greg did his PhD on the effects of protected areas and climate change on the occupancy dynamics o

SEEC researcher, Tess Gridley, is organising a conference in Cape Town on all aspects of bio-acoustic research this December. Further information about the conference can be found on the

Congratulations to Danielle Boyd who graduated with a M.Sc. in Statistical Ecology this month. We are proud of you Danielle! The title of Danielle's thesis is "Fishery, population dynamics and stock assessment of geelbek (At

In January SEEC hosted David Warton a Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow from the University of South Wales. David champions the movement away from traditional methods of exploratory multivariate analyses to more pre

Congratulations to Jasper and his team, who won one of the 3 thematic awards at the Data for Climate Action (D4CA) challenge award ceremony at COP23! D4CA is a competition under the UN Globa

Check out a new SEEC-authored paper recently published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. As the Earth's climate changes, extreme c

Jasper Slingsby, a SEEC honorary research associate and SAEON biodiversity scientist, has just published a paper on how climate change is leading to biodiversity decline in the Fynbos. In the longest running permanent vegetation plot stu

Congratulations to former SEEC postdoc, Raquel Garcia, on the publication of a paper in the prestigious journal, Science, which she co-authored during her time at SEEC!

Our annual report for 2016 is now available HERE. Read all about SEEC's excellent progress and the many activities we were involved in last year.

Congratulations to one of our students, Etienne Pienaar, on the award of his PhD entitled "Diffusion Processes and Applications". Below is an abstract of Etienne's thesis: Diffusion models are useful tools for quantifying the dy

Congratulations to SEEC researcher Greg Distiller who has just had his PhD thesis passed by his examiners! Greg's thesis is ent

Oceana study finds fish catches in EU waters could increase by 57% if stocks were managed sustainably

The most recent South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR) newsletter featured an article written by SEEC researcher

The SEEC Stats Toolbox Seminars started with a BANG!!!! What a turn out? Dr Vernon Visser had a full house as he introduced Species Distribution Models to 92 enthusiastic students and researchers. They represented tertiary institutions, government depa

Seattle, better known for coffee and Frasier, was recently the host for the International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) 2016. Five SEEC members, including Res Altwegg, Allan Clark, Greg Distiller, Sanet Hugo and Theoni Photopoulo

Kudzu vine, a major invader in the USA, is in South Africa, but there is still time to eradicate it here.

SEEC is hosting a monthly seminar series entitled SEEC Stats Toolbox. Every month we will introduce you to a stats method relevant to the fields of ecology, environmental science and conservation as a way of making these meth

A new paper by SEEC members Natasha Karenyi and Res Altwegg provides an improved method for setting habitat-based-conservation targets.

Congratulations to Dorine Jansen on the acceptance of her PhD thesis "Ringing data to study climatic influences on passerines".

New paper on why there are so few invasive grasses in South Africa.

Come along to hear about all of the interesting research projects being undertaken by SEEC students!

Kyle Lloyd has just had his Masters thesis accepted! Congratulations Kyle. Below you can read Kyle's abstract on his project on nest predation in sociable weavers.

Peter Best and our very own Theoni Photopoulou recently published a paper on a rather bizarre natura

This year I was lucky to be awarded some funding under a postdoctoral exchange scheme, hosted by the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland (MASTS). Thanks to this funding, I was able to carry out research visits to two Scottish institutio

In July and August I attended the MCDM (Society for Multicriteria Decision Making) conference in Hamburg, present

The 2015 SEEC student symposium was held at the UCT Research Office at Cormack House in Mowbray on Friday 16 October, and was well attended by postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, staff, and a few visitors.

SEEC is hosting Michael Schaub & Marc Ke’ry of the Swiss Ornithological Institute, and Sarah