Current staff and students at the ADU
Staff:
Ms Candice Lakay, SARCA Data Capturer, (021) 650-3846- Mrs Denise Lesch, Data Capturer, (021) 650-3846
- Dr Dieter Oschadleus, SAFRING Project Coordinator, (021) 650-2421
- Mrs Donella Young, CAR Project Coordinator, (021) 650-4239
- Mr Doug Harebottle, SABAP2 Project Manager, (021) 650-2330
- Ms Laurenda van Breda, SABCA Data Capturer
- Prof. Les Underhill, Director of the ADU, (021) 650-3227
- Ms Linda Tsipa, Financial Assistant, (021) 650-4697
- Mr Lungelo Ndaba, SABCA Data Capturer
- Dr Marienne de Villiers, SARCA Project Manager, (021) 650-4548
- Mr Marius Burger, SARCA Herpetologist
- Mr Marius Wheeler, CWAC and BIRP Project Coordinator, (021) 650-4698
- Mrs Marja Wren-Sargent, DTP Specialist, (021) 650-3846
- Mr Michael Brooks, IT Technician, Software developer, Database administrator, (012) 650-4998
- Mr Oscar Noëls, SAFRING Data Capturer, (012) 650-2422
- Mr René A. Navarro, IT Manager/Developer, (021) 650-2566
- Dr Silvia Mecenero, SABCA Project Coordinator, (021) 650-3426
- Mrs Sue Kuyper, Executive Assistant, (021) 650-2423
Research associates:
Postgraduate Students:
Post-Doc.:
PhD:
- Mr Adin Stamelman, A reconstruction of seabird populations on the southern African guano islands from historical archives c. 1895–1955 (History Department, UCT)
- Mr Albert Schultz, Epidemiological investigations into African Penguin parasites in captive and free-ranging breeding colonies (Rhodes University)
- Mr Doug Harebottle, Southern African waterbirds: an analysis of census and ringing databases
- Ms Kutlwano Ramaboa, Applications of the singular value decomposition in multivariate analysis
- Ms Lauren Waller, The impacts of disturbance on the breeding birds of Dyer Island, and mitigation measures to reduce these impacts
- Ms Mariëtte Wheeler, Effects of human impact on breeding seabirds and seals
- Ms Marta de Ponte Machado, Population ecology and conservation status of the Great White Pelican in Southern Africa
- Mr Newi Makhado, Investigation of the impact of fur seals on the conservation status of seabirds at the Prince Edward Islands and off western South Africa
- Mr René A. Navarro, Flight Patterns and Energy Budget of the Cape Gannet During the Breeding Season
- Ms Sally Hofmeyr, Conservation impacts of environmental change on populations of threatened large terrestrial bird species in South Africa
- Mr Steve Kirkman, Ecology of the Cape fur seal in southern Africa
- Ms Yahkat Barshep, Migration strategy of the Curlew Sandpiper
Masters:
- Ms Diane Southey, Wildland fire modelling: a South African context (Botany Department)
- Ms Justine Braby, Breeding biology of Damara Terns in southern Namibia, particularly in relation to diamond mining (Namibia)
- Mr Mduduzi Seakamela, Effects of variation in population management and research methods of the Cape fur seal
- Mr Thierry Rousset, Reconstruction of the seal populations of southern Africa, 1895–1995 (History Department, UCT)
BSc(Honours):
Recent graduates:
- Mr Alistair McInnes, MSc 2007
- Dr Anton Wolfaardt, PhD 2007
- Dr Barbara Paterson, PhD 2005
- Dr Birgit Erni, MSc 2000
- Mr Darren Houniet, MSc 2008
- Dr Dieter Oschadleus, PhD 2005
- Dr Francesca Little, PhD 2003
- Ms Janine le Roux, MSc 2006
- Dr Jessica Kemper, PhD 2006
- Dr Kathy Tjørve, PhD 2006
- Mrs Linda Smith (née Staverees), MSc 2006
- Dr Lorenzo Serra, PhD 2002
- Dr Nola Parsons, PhD 2006
- Dr Phil Whittington, PhD 2002
- Ms Philippa Schultz, MSc 2007
- Dr Samantha Petersen, PhD 2008
- Ms Shannon Hampton, MSc 2008
- Dr Silvia Mecenero, PhD 2005
Visitors:
- Mr Ralf Mullers, Foraging behaviour and energetics of Cape Gannets (PhD, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
- Mr Richard Sherley, Uses of natural markings on African Penguins (PhD, Bristol University, United Kingdom)
- Ms Sophie Kohler, Comparative feeding ecology of the African Black Oystercatcher Haematopus moquini related to environmental variability, on the South African coastline (PhD, University of Reunion, France)
