eNews #03 2025 Exploring innovative strategies for sustainable irrigation and smallholder system resilience By Ameera Yacoob, PhD candidate, Grasslands Node, NRF-SAEON contents Can rangeland science

eNews #03 2025 Exploring the hidden: My journey in geohydrology and passion for groundwater By Mkholo Maseko, Groundwater Hydrologist, Grasslands Node, NRF-SAEON contents Can rangeland

eNews #02 2025 Optimising observation standards and data pipelines to enhance impact: The SAEON technical team leads the way By Susan J. Van Rensburg &

eNews #01 2025 NRF-SAEON in the media By Staff Writer Issue 01 2025 SAPRI’s long-term monitoring of top predators at Marion Island Meet the manager

eNews #01 2025 Protecting wetlands for our common future: Voices of Women, youth advancing climate action in Maputaland by Londiwe Gule and Nozipho Mahlanze, Grasslands

SAEON eNews #01 2025 Link to: SAPRI’s long-term monitoring of top predators at Marion Island Link to: SAPRI’s long-term monitoring of top predators at Marion

eNews #06 2024 Inspiring young minds: NRF-SAEON Grasslands Node grade 10 science camp By Nozipho Mahlanze, Science Engagement Officer and Sue J van Rensburg, Coordinator,

eNews #06 2024 LAUNCH: The Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network By Abri de Buys, Warren Joubert, Helga Knoetze, Kathleen Smart & Gregor Feig,

SAEON eNews #06 2024 Link to: Annual demersal survey: Exciting new discoveries and other benefits Link to: Annual demersal survey: Exciting new discoveries and other

eNews #05 2024 Biomes workshop ignites passion and knowledge in Western Cape educators By Caitlin Ransom, Environmental Science Education and Communications Officer, NRF-SAEON contents Expanding

eNews #05 2024 Expanding grasslands: How climate and livestock changes have contributed towards a grassier Eastern Karoo By Gina Arena, Conservation South Africa and Helga

SAEON eNews #05 2024 Link to: Expanding grasslands: How climate and livestock changes have contributed towards a grassier Eastern Karoo Link to: Expanding grasslands: How

eNews #04 2024 SAEON’s Cathedral Peak LTER platform provides hands-on learning for University of Johannesburg Honours students By Susan Janse van Rensburg, Coordinator: Grasslands Node,

eNews #04 2024 Flying the EFTEON flag high at the annual congress of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa By Lindo Dlamini, Sachin Doarsamy and

eNews #04 2024 Meet EFTEON’s new landscape scientist for biodiversity and ecology contents Navigating the currents: Insights from the ASCA and SEAmester voyage aboard the

eNews #03 2024 Celebrating SAEON women By Dr Mary-Jane Bopape, Managing Director, NRF-SAEON Issue 03 2024 SAPRI participates in the 2024 Marion Island Relief Expedition

eNews #03 2024 ‘I learnt how to think like a scientist’ By Nozipho Mahlanze, Science Engagement, Grasslands Node, NRF-SAEON Issue 03 2024 SAPRI participates in

eNews #03 2024 Professorship for SAEON scientist Dave Thompson By Staff Writer Issue 03 2024 SAPRI participates in the 2024 Marion Island Relief Expedition Cross-nodal

eNews #03 2024 The Mariepskop LTER: A platform for studying contemporary vegetation change in mountain catchments in northern South Africa By Dr Tony Swemmer, Manager,

SAEON eNews #03 2024 Link to: SAPRI participates in the 2024 Marion Island Relief Expedition Link to: SAPRI participates in the 2024 Marion Island Relief

eNews #02 2024 Meet EFTEON’s new landscape scientist for meteorology and atmospheric composition contents Engaged research for impact: Understanding the Maputaland social-ecological system Future outcomes

eNews #02 2024 Participatory approaches enhance science and impact By Londiwe Gule, Biodiversity Intern, Grasslands Node, NRF-SAEON contents Engaged research for impact: Understanding the Maputaland

eNews #02 2024 Future outcomes of choices made today By Mkholo Maseko, Junior Groundwater Hydrologist, Grasslands Node contents Engaged research for impact: Understanding the Maputaland

eNews #02 2024 Engaged research for impact: Understanding the Maputaland social-ecological system By Sue Janse van Rensburg, Coordinator, Grasslands Node, NRF-SAEON contents Engaged research for

SAEON eNews #02 2024 Link to: Engaged research for impact: Understanding the Maputaland social-ecological system Link to: Engaged research for impact: Understanding the Maputaland social-ecological

eNews #01 2024 NRF-SAEON in the media Issue 01 2024 What is the cause of the decline of African riparian forests? Satellite tagging whales to

eNews #01 2024 Insights gained from my first international conference as a geohydrologist By Mkholo Maseko, Junior Groundwater Hydrologist, Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node Issue 01 2024 What

eNews #01 2024 What is the cause of the decline of African riparian forests? By Tony Swemmer, Manager: Ndlovu Node, NRF-SAEON Issue 01 2024 What

SAEON eNews #01 2024 Link to: Long-term observations enhance knowledge impact as SAEON extends historic measurements Link to: Long-term observations enhance knowledge impact as SAEON

eNews #05 2023 SAEON showcases freely available weather data to farmers at Bergville Agricultural Expo By Corrina Naidoo, Intern, EFTEON Northern Drakensberg Issue 05 2023

eNews #05 2023 Long-term observations enhance knowledge impact as SAEON extends historic measurements By Susan Janse Van Rensburg and Michelle Warburton, Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node Issue 05

eNews #04 2023 NRF-SAEON in the media contents Have your tea and bury it: quantifying decomposition rates using the international Tea Bag Index Using nanotechnology

eNews #04 2023 Celebrating 21 years of world-class environmental research platforms for a sustainable society By Rabia Mathakutha, Research Coordinator: South African Polar Research Infrastructure*

eNews #04 2023 Have your tea and bury it: quantifying decomposition rates using the international Tea Bag Index By Dr Helga van Coller, PDP Research

SAEON eNews #04 2023 Link to: Annual demersal survey: Exciting new discoveries and other benefits Link to: Annual demersal survey: Exciting new discoveries and other

eNews #03 2023 Meet the new members of the GSN steering committee By Buster Mogonong, External Communication Liaison, Graduate Student Network Issue 03 2023 contents

eNews #02 2023 NRF-SAEON in the media Issue 02 2023 contents Fair game with fairy circles Fostering coordination of Earth observations for maximum impact Landscape

eNews #02 2023 Unlocking the vast potential of grasslands to mitigate climate change* By Dr Paul Gordijn, Field Technician, Grasslands Node, NRF-SAEON Issue 02 2023

eNews #02 2023 NRF-SAEON gears up to celebrate 21 remarkable years By Staff Writer Issue 02 2023 contents Fair game with fairy circles Fostering coordination

eNews #02 2023 Landscape scientist brings crucial experience and skills to EFTEON Issue 02 2023 contents Fair game with fairy circles Fostering coordination of Earth

SAEON eNews #02 2023 Link to: Fair game with fairy circles Link to: Fair game with fairy circles Fair game with fairy circles A new

eNews #01 2023 World Wetlands Day 2023: Ensuring science impact through science engagement By Sue Van Rensburg, Gugulethu Tshabalala, Charlene Russell, Abri de Buys &

eNews #03 2022 SAEON in the media contents New field identification guide aids research through showcasing Limpopo’s botanical riches A growing network of African woodlands

The coordinator of SAEON’s Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node, Susan Janse van Rensburg, is cited in an article titled Mountains play a vital role in water provision; we need to focus on them, published in The Witness of July 13.

SAEON’s new MD had the pleasure of visiting the Cathedral Peak site of the Grasslands Node where she saw different observations that can be used as input to the development and running of hydrological, land surface and atmospheric models.

eNews #02 2022 NRF-SAEON celebrates World Wetlands Day with the Mabasa community in northern Maputaland By Nokwanda Gule, Intern, SAEON Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node The National Research

eNews #02 2022 Inaugural SAMC conference signals the beginning of a new mountain socio-ecological perspective By Sue Janse Van Rensburg, Coordinator, SAEON Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node Mountains

eNews #01 2022 Celebrating our wonderful wetlands By Caitlin Ransom, SAEON Science Engagement and Communications Officer Issue 01 2022 contents New study investigates fog water

SAEON’s new MD had the pleasure of visiting the Cathedral Peak site of the Grasslands Node where she saw different observations that can be used as input to the development and running of hydrological, land surface and atmospheric models.

eNews #06 2020 DSI-NRF intern finds new locality for rare orchid in South Africa By Susan J van Rensburg, Coordinator, SAEON Grasslands-Wetlands-Forest Node contents Crucial

eNews #05 2020 Grasslands-Wetlands-Forests Node Lake Sibaya and the beginning of the Iron Age in KwaZulu-Natal, an article co-authored by Sue Janse van Rensburg, coordinator

eNews #05 2020 What is the potential of native vegetation for the development of agroforestry systems on the Maputaland Coastal Plain? * By Allister Starke,

eNews #03 2020 A vision taking shape – citizen science in Umhlabuyalingana By Siphiwe Mfeka, Technical Assistant, SAEON Grasslands-Wetlands-Forests Node Issue #03 2020 contents South

eNews #03 2020 Linking the theory of hydrological modelling to the real world By Dr Michele Toucher, SAEON Grasslands-Wetlands-Forests Node Issue #03 2020 contents South

A professional development programme (PDP) grant funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) is enabling me to undertake my PhD in Hydrology through the University of KwaZulu-Natal.