Tarryn Frankland
Tarryn Frankland Tarryn Frankland MSc Graduate Tarryn Frankland is interested in palaeoclimatology, understanding the local impacts of climate change, and environmental system monitoring and modelling. Tarryn’s Honours research looked at the viability of mangrove foraminifera as a tool to reconstruct sea level at the Umlalazi Nature Reserve. Her MSc established a modern analogue of the […]
Tristan Pillay
Tristan Pillay Tristan Pillay MSc Graduate Tristan Pillay is interested in the paleoclimates of southern Africa, anthropogenic effects on climate change, and predictions of future climate and the effects on biodiversity. Tristan’s MSc research at the Kromme Estuary uses foraminifera preserved in salt marsh sediments to reconstruct long-term sea-level variability. E-mail: 217044490@stu.ukzn.ac.za, tristanrpillay@gmail.com
Luke Bodmann
Luke Bodmann Luke Bodmann MSc Candidate Luke Bodmann’s research focuses on reconstructing past vegetation and fire history in the Drakensberg using short sediment cores from a number of high-altitude wetlands in the Cathedral Peak area. The uKhahlamba Drakensberg Mountains are internationally recognised as an area of outstanding natural and cultural heritage value, in addition to […]
Amanda Khuzwayo
Amanda Khuzwayo Amanda Khuzwayo MSc Candidate Amanda Khuzwayo is interested in pollen as a tool for understanding vegetation and environmental change in salt marsh environments. Amanda is now working as an environmental consultant. E-mail: mndkhuzwayo@gmail.com
Salona Reddy
Salona Reddy Salona Reddy MSc Graduate Salona Reddy is interested in wetland vegetation history and environmental change, and integrating human impacts of the past with management strategies for the future. Her research is focussed on past vegetation and fire dynamics together with the integration of environmental changes and human impacts within south Lake Futululu on […]
Asanda Magopheni
Asanda Magopheni Asanda Magopheni Honours Graduate Asanda Magopheni is interested in biodiversity conservation, climate change, environmental change and conservation of wetlands and their biodiversity. Her research focuses on sea level dynamics using mangrove sediments from uMngazana estuary. She wants to find out how the sea level has changed through time and look at how sea […]
Lindiwe Ngcongco
Lindiwe Ngcongco Lindiwe Ngcongco BScHons Graduate Lindiwe Ngcongco is interested in paleoenvironmental reconstruction which involves studying past environmental changes that could be used to develop strategies to manage present and future environmental changes. Her research focuses on reconstructing fire history and understanding management practices at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal. The aim is to […]
Zahra Omarjee
Zahra Omarjee Zahra Omarjee MSc Candidate Zahra Omarjee is interested in fire history reconstruction using sedimentary charcoal, and how fire regimes are impacted by human activity in South Africa. Her research focuses on long term environmental change and masters research will use a multi-proxy approach in reconstructing vegetation change and fire history in the Herbertsdale […]
Joshua van Schalkwyk
Joshua van Schalkwyk Joshua van Schalkwyk MSc Candidate Joshua van Schalkwyk is interested in the evolutionary links between plant physiology and ecology, specifically the relationships between plants that use different photosynthetic pathways (C3 and C4) in an ecological context. His research is concerned with delineating the contemporary and historical transition zone (ecotone) between lower altitude, C4 dominated, […]
Talia Enoch
Talia Enoch Talia Enoch MSc Candidate Talia Enoch is interested in climate change, conservation and palaeoreconstruction. Her research is focussed on reconstructing the past sea levels along the South African coastline using proxy data sources. She has previous experience using sedimentological proxies to understand coastal change at Knysna. Her current research is looking at the […]