Experience

SAEON

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Landscape Scientist

  • Jul 2022 - Present



Rhodes University

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher

  • Apr 2021 - Jul 2022

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Apr 2019 - Jul 2022

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Nov 2016 - Jul 2022

  *Together with Prof Tony Palmer I run two eddy covariance towers in the dry grasslands close to Adelaide to look at the impacts of bush encroachment on landscape water and carbon exchange.*I worked with Prof Brad Ripley at the Rhodes University Elevated CO2 facility (RUCEF) looking at the hydraulic and anatomical compensations in plants from different growth environments. - Global Change Grand Challenge post-doctoral research fellow Nov 2016-March 2018;- Claude Leon research fellow April 2018 onwards. Show less



Global Change Institute

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Admin and student researcher

  • Mar 2013 - Aug 2013

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University of the Witwatersrand

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD student

  • 2008 - 2013



Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

• South Africa
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student

  • Jul 2008 - Jul 2012

  *Project title: The role of vegetation in regional climate regulation feedback processes. *Primary supervisor: Prof. Bob Scholes, co-supervisor: Prof. Barend Erasmus For my PhD project I looked at how the presence of Portulacaria afra affects the flow of ecosystem services from the thicket landscapes of the Eastern Cape. Degraded and intact thicket ecosystems deliver different bundles of ecosystem services, and within each bundle the services are linked non-linearly, so that land-use and management decisions which seek to increase a particular service affect the delivery of other services. One of the challenges of restoring the historically degraded thicket areas is understanding the trade-offs between various objectives, including re-establishing biodiversity and critical services such as carbon sequestration, climate regulation, water provision and forage supply. I used a variety of techniques to assess some of these trade-offs at several spatial and temporal scales. The amount, rate and nature of carbon assimilation by P. afra at a variety of spatial and temporal scales are also explored. Show less



Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

• South Africa
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Elephant Assessment Coordinator and Editor

  • Feb 2007 - Mar 2008

  The Assessment of South African Elephant Management was a scientific assessment of the state of knowledge regarding elephant-ecosystem-society interactions. The aims of the assessment were to: 1) immediately mine the extensive existing information that has not yet contributed to policy; 2) establish an information baseline against which to judge the success of future research programmes, and 3) identify the critical research gaps that future research should address. This assessment also identifies and evaluates the policy and management options while including South Africa's economic agenda and socio-cultural aspirations. The Assessment was published in 2008 by Wits University Press under the title 'Elephant Management: A Scientific Assessment for South Africa', Show less