Seminar Series
The Cape Research Centre (CRC) hosts a lunch-time seminar series to communicate research conducted in and around parks to management staff and other interested people.
The seminar series is moving online to Microsoft Teams, and a hybrid event hosted at the Cape Research Centre (Tokai, CPT) only if the speaker is based in Cape Town.
Presentation recordings
2020
- Running scared: when predators become prey (2020/06/25), by Alison Kock
- The history of Conservation in SA (2020/09/17), by Bob Scholes
- Table Mountain: a strategic water source (2020/11/13), by Ruth-Mary Fisher
2021
- The effects of Climate change on African penguins (2021/03/25), by Katta Ludynia
- National Biodiversity Assessment outcomes: Freshwater (2021/05/21), by Andrew Skowno & Nancy Job
- Remote sensing of wetlands (2021/05/27), by Heide Van Deventer
- Protecting the protected: reducing wildlife roadkill in protected areas (2021/07/08), by Wendy Collinson
- Dedicated dads: the unusual nesting behaviour of male Steentjie fish (S. emarginatum) in False Bay, RSA (2021/09/16), by Nina Faure Beaulieu
- Cetaceans of the Western Cape – from biogeographic boundaries to bountiful baleen whales (2021/10/15), by Simon Elwen
2022
- Exploring the social and economic effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (2022/01/27), by Judy Mann
- What can be done about forest-dependent bird declines in South Africa? (2022/02/17), by Michael Cherry
- Tracking Pleistocene vertebrates in Protected Areas on the Cape coast (2022/03/17), by Charles Helm
- Phenological shifts in the Namaqualand daisy bloom (2022/05/26), by Jennifer Fitchett
2023
- Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel (2023/02/27) by Irus Braverman
- To Bee or not to Bee in National Parks (2023/03/09), by Melanie De Morney
- Ecology and management of fires in fynbos (2023/04/25), by Brian van Wilgen
2024
- Using Mapping to Support Climate Change Adaptation in Hawaii’s Haleakalā National Park (2024/05/08), by Paul Hosten
- Behind every conservation story is a human one (2024/10/07), by Andrea Marais-Potgieter
2025
- Cape Town Coastal Water Quality: Monitoring programmes and review of summer season 2024/25 (2025/02/27), by the City of Cape Town
- Strengthening Protected Area Effectiveness With the Conservation Standards (2025/05/09), by Claire Relton
- Soil hydrophobicity in Fynbos: measuring the impacts of woody invasive alien plant species and fire, as well as its ecological benefits (2025/06/19), by Ruth-Mary Fisher
- Socio-Ecological challenges and opportunities in addressing the inequalities of our colonial past whilst ensuring the conservation of biodiversity (2025/07/25), by Nolwazi Mbongwa
- AI for Ecology: How It Can Help Monitor Wildlife (2025/10/16), by Lorène Jeantet
2026
- the New kid on the block. Agulhas Plain Ramsar Wetland site (2026/02/26), by Ruth-Mary Fisher
- Quantifying and conserving blue carbon stocks in a South African Marine Protected Area (2026/03/12), by Andrew Ndhlovu
- Toward a shared vision for climate-informed resource stewardship (2026/04/22), by Gregor Schuurman, Brian Miller, Wylie Carr
Other resources: recordings
- The Ghosts of Table Mountain, by Fishwater Films
- Around Africa Expedition (Inaugural session #1), with OceanQuest