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In 2007 I joined the newly established South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node on an internship. In the first two years of employment I assisted with the design and development of SAEON's Parataxonomy Laboratory, co-developed Algoa Bay Sentinel Site long-term ecological research (LTER) projects and conceptualized and developed a LTER framework for nearshore macrozoobenthos for which I was principle investigator. In 2009, I was promoted to project manager of an ongoing, nationwide biomonitoring programme involving seven commercial ports on behalf of South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority.
I assumed my present portfolio of Sentinel Site Research and Data Co-ordinator in 2010. Tasked with the effective coordination of short and long-term research activities in SAEON's Algoa Bay Sentintel Site, I spearheaded the development and implementation of the Pelagic Ecosystem Long-term Environmental Research Programme (PE-LTERP) in collaboration with the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), assisted with the expansion of the Sentinel Site into St Francis Bay and assisted with the launch of Elwandle Node's Estuaries Long-term Environmental Research Programme (E-LTERP). I am also responsible for data management and assist SAEON's Information Management team with developing data products.
I am passionate about capacity building and have provided leadership and guidance as mentor (masters and doctoral level) and co-supervisor (honours level) to eight students of PDI demography, four DST/NRF interns, five Parataxonomy Laboratory assistants and currently, supervisor to one PhD student of PDI demography. Parataxonomy staff were recruited from the unemployed community of Grahamstown. I was instrumental in the development of and was actively involved in the Phuhlisa Programme funded by the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme Phase III (ACEP III) managed by SAIAB for three years. The core focus of this programme is centered on capacity building among previously disadvantage individuals (PDI) from Historically Black Universities (HBUs) in several fields of marine science.
I was appointed Research Associate at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research Institute (CMR) at NMMU in 2013, after receiving my PhD from the same university in 2013. More recently, I was appointed incumbent Co-ordinator of the Global Change Theme at CMR to assist with improving trans-disciplinary research within this theme at the institute. My research focus is in coastal and estuarine plankton ecology with particular interests in zooplankton, community dynamics, copepoda taxonomy, reproduction, phenology, trophodynamics, predator-prey interactions, bio-physical relationships, coastal oceanography, ecological theory, LTER and climate change.
Dividing my research focus between estuaries (PhD focus) and nearshore themes (SAEON research 2007 to present) helped me develop a wide conceptual understanding of the ecology of benthic and pelagic micro-invertebrates in these environments. I am a Class IV commercial diver and coastal skipper (Cat. C, < 9m) with working knowledge of an array of scientific equipment gained over 18 years of fieldwork in estuaries and at sea.
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Social Science Research Network (2022)
South African Journal of Scienceno. 11-12 (2022)
R. Jak McCarroll,Tim Scott,Erin V. King,Gerd Masselink,Benjamin J. Ciotti, Anton Cloete,Paul-Pierre Steyn,Peter Britz,Niall G. Vine,Shaun H.P. Deyzel, Andrew Witte, Richard Clark
South African Journal of Scienceno. 3/4 (2018)
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