Job Opportunities: Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project.

Posted April 13, 2016 by Kate Kloppers (formally Sutherland) & filed under Frontpage.

Applications for positions available within the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project are open. Vacancies include: City Embedded Researcher: FRACTAL Cities and Climate Change Project. University of Zambia, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and Postdoctoral fellowship in biodiversity and climate change. University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), College of Agriculture, Engineering… Read more »

Take 2: The embedded researcher as an honest broker between climate science and policy

Posted April 12, 2016 by Anna Taylor & filed under Climate Services, CSAG Blog, Frontpage.

Let’s try this again. This is my second attempt at writing my first CSAG blog. I made the classic error the first time around of biting off more than I can chew. And then I made the equally classic error of going to look at what others had written for their blog entries and got… Read more »

The Conversation, New Article: Lessons from semi-arid regions on how to adapt to climate change

Posted by Kate Kloppers (formally Sutherland) & filed under Frontpage.

Building on local experience and having access to current and expected climate trends is crucial to adapting to climate change for farmers in semi-arid regions. A new article written by Gina Ziervogel, Lucia Scodanibbio and Kate Kloppers Titled: Lessons from semi-arid regions on how to adapt to climate change is available on The Conversation . … Read more »

Open Statement from the Young Earth System Scientists Community (YESS) regarding job cuts to CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and Land and Water divisions

Posted April 6, 2016 by Modathir Zaroug & filed under CSAG Blog, Frontpage.

In this blog of the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) at University of Cape Town (UCT), I would like to publicize and disseminate the below open statement from the Young Earth System Scientists Community (YESS) regarding the massive job cuts to CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and Land and Water divisions. YESS is a global network… Read more »

2015 Joe Blogs Award Winner

Posted March 24, 2016 by Kate Kloppers (formally Sutherland) & filed under CSAG Blog, Frontpage.

Yesterday we announced the CSAG Joe Blogs Award for 2015. With another year of intriguing blogs behind us and new 2016 blogs already on the website, it was an exciting morning for all at CSAG to hear who would be the 3rd victor to lift the prestigious award. The “Academy of the Blog” were tasked… Read more »

Index 451

Posted March 9, 2016 by admin & filed under CSAG Blog, Frontpage.

I’ve been traveling in North America for a few months now. This has required me not only to relearn how to drive on the right-hand side of the road, but also the Fahrenheit temperature scale. So this XKCD comic describes a day to day occurrence for me. This can be quite important, since when reported… Read more »

Reproducible El Niños

Posted February 23, 2016 by admin & filed under CSAG Blog, Frontpage.

A lot of attention has been given to the consequences of the latest strong El Niño event. Were these a surprise? Where do we get our notions of what we expect? A lot of ‘big picture’ intuition about climate patterns and variation comes from some rather straightforward statistical methods. I wanted to briefly unpack a… Read more »

Graduation

Posted December 23, 2015 by Bruce Hewitson & filed under CSAG Blog, Frontpage.

We have a number of people who are completing, submitting, correcting, and graduating with their MS/PhD degrees. Here are some! Congratulations to all.

CSAG Director Prof Bruce Hewitson – University of Cape Town’s newest A-rated researcher

Posted December 8, 2015 by Kate Kloppers (formally Sutherland) & filed under CSAG Blog, Frontpage.

Professor Bruce Hewitson is UCT’s newest A-rated researcher following the latest round of National Research Foundation ratings. A-ratings are awarded to researchers who are “unequivocally recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their field for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs. Congratulations Bruce Original article HERE