Tuesday 02 June 2026, 10:30AM (SAST) Teams Registration Link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/172c63f9-acd0-4ce4-ad27-9de30f5f6748@30878ba0-2f66-4b77-8fde-8dfc1652ff39 by Lars Martin Myhre Project Coordinator and Researcher, Norwegian Research Centre, Norway Effects of Habitat Restoration in an Urbanised Harbour in Bergen, Norway Bergen, Norway’s second largest city and “Marine...

Date: Thursday 21 May 2026 Time: 10:30am (SAST) Venue: Lecture Room Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/343447198197111?p=3xiccJcyo5zhiCwiJ7 By Dr Josephine Pegg Conservation Scientist, Organisation for Tropical Studies Honorary Research Associate, NRF-SAIAB Lessons from Laos: Industrial Aquaculture and sustainable fisheries? Freshwater aquaculture and inland...

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026 Time:10:30pm (SAST) Venue:Lecture Room By Maisha Gragnolati Fernandes PhD Candidate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, NRF-SAIAB Small-scale processes, convergent outcomes: reef fish functional vulnerability in the mesophotic zone Despite the long history of human...

Date: Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:00pm (SAST) Venue: Lecture Room  Teams link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cffd6bd9-bf65-4245-ac8b-812e606a723f@30878ba0-2f66-4b77-8fde-8dfc1652ff39 Professor Alan Whitfield Emeritus Chief Scientist, and Honorary Research Associate, NRF-SAIAB                                    Our Southern African Heritage Advanced modern humans evolved in the southern portion of South Africa from...

Thursday 21 August 2025, 10.30am (SAST) Zoom Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/MzAlJA8qRWS-cR1AaBtjbw Passcode: 035119 by Hesmarié Botha Research Student, NRF-SAIAB  From the last meal to first breath: Developmental insights into the temporary parasitic isopod, Gnathia pantherina Smit & Basson, 2002. Gnathiid isopods...

Thursday 14 August 2025, 10.30am (SAST) Venue: Lecture Room Zoom Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ayB5S54cTtai22lQicctvg Passcode: 200496 by Dr Tadiwa Mutizwa (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NRF-SAIAB) Hidden in the Riffles: The Amazing Diversity of Suckermouth Catfishes (Mochokidae, Chiloglanis) in the Zambezi River, Southern...

Wednesday 4 June 2025, 10.30am (SAST) Zoom Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/hnJ370yxR6iUP0z28Ew4YA Passcode: 255283 by Dr Nokubonga Mbandzi-Phorego Postdoctoral Researcher, NRF-SAIAB   Ecological risk assessment of metal pollution in shellfish along the south coast of South Africa: implications for healthy and sustainable coastal...