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| Summer 2011/12 Chameleon challenge! | ||
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| 19 November 2011 - 1 March 2012 | ||
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| Obs no | Name | score |
| 11863 | Cox, John and Kim | 1014 |
| 11827 | Tye, Nicholas David | 634 |
| 166 | Wood, Tim | 567 |
| 10824 | Clacey, Michael John | 524 |
| 11637 | Willemse, Jannie | 513 |
| 10065 | Lawson, Peter | 498 |
| 272 | Archer, Tony | 429 |
| 11907 | Shaw, Garth Francis | 409 |
| 10051 | Da Cruz, Paul | 403 |
| 102 | De Swardt, Dawie | 402 |
| 527 | Kleynhans, Dawie | 400 |
| 1371 | Sewards, John | 377 |
| 39 | Claassen, Japie | 293 |
| 1065 | Du Plessis, Gideon Joubert | 272 |
| 10101 | Perrins, Niall | 257 |
| 4G Challenge. Reach 4 cards or more in 2012! | ||
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| Surveys needed to reach target | Pentads | Cards to go |
| 4 | 467 | 1868 |
| 3 | 65 | 195 |
| 2 | 20 | 40 |
| 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Total cards needed | 2109 | |
| Pentads with 4 cards or more | 18 (3.90%) | |
| 747 Challenge - 7 cards, 4 degrees, 7 months. | ||
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| Surveys needed to reach target | Pentads | Cards to go |
| 3 | 48 | 144 |
| 2 | 24 | 48 |
| 1 | 16 | 16 |
| Total cards needed | 208 | |
| Pentads with 7 cards or more | 488 (84.72%) | |
| 3DDG Challenge. Reach 4 cards or more! | ||
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| Surveys needed to reach target | Pentads | Cards to go |
| 4 | 32 | 128 |
| 3 | 77 | 231 |
| 2 | 63 | 126 |
| 1 | 38 | 38 |
| Total cards needed | 523 | |
| Pentads with 4 cards or more | 391 (65.06%) | |
| Date of survey | Pentad | Compiler |
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| 2010-02-03 | 2455_3135 | Da Cruz, Paul |
| 2010-02-03 | 2455_3130 | Da Cruz, Paul |
| 2012-02-03 | 2555_2745 | Kemp, Ryno |
| 2012-02-03 | 2645_2635 | Archer, Tony |
| 2012-01-27 | 2920_3015 | Nelson, Karin |
| 2012-01-25 | 2935_3020 | Nelson, Karin |
| 2012-01-25 | 3405_2445 | Cook, Chuck (Charles) |
| 2012-02-01 | 2855_2745 | Cox, John and Kim |
| 2012-02-01 | 2855_2750 | Cox, John and Kim |
| 2012-02-01 | 2905_2755 | Cox, John and Kim |
| 2012-02-01 | 2900_2755 | Cox, John and Kim |
| 2012-02-01 | 2855_2755 | Cox, John and Kim |
| 2012-01-31 | 2845_2810 | Cox, John and Kim |
| 2012-01-31 | 2845_2805 | Cox, John and Kim |
| 2012-01-12 | 3340_2545 | Nixon, Andrew Denys |
| 2011-12-28 | 3355_2535 | Horn, Gerrie |
| 2011-09-03 | 3355_2535 | Horn, Gerrie |
| 2012-01-28 | 2420_3055 | Roerig, Joel |
| 2012-01-28 | 2910_2530 | Nuttall, Rick |
| 2012-01-28 | 2915_2530 | Nuttall, Rick |
| 2012-01-28 | 2915_2535 | Nuttall, Rick |
| 2012-02-01 | 2735_2935 | Pretorius, Morne |
| 2012-01-28 | 2920_2540 | Nuttall, Rick |
| 2012-01-28 | 2820_2610 | van Stuyvenberg, Stefan |
| 2012-01-28 | 2825_2610 | van Stuyvenberg, Stefan |
| 2012-01-20 | 2905_2615 | Nuttall, Rick |
| 2012-01-24 | 2425_3135 | Randell, John |
| 2012-01-05 | 3215_2850 | Raubenheimer, Denni & Yolande |
| 2011-10-21 | 2845_2745 | Preece, Chris & Felicity |
| 2011-09-30 | 2845_2745 | Preece, Chris & Felicity |
Departmental Seminar: Wednesday 8 February: "Mapping Africa's Mammals: The ADU's Newest Atlas Project"
Following on from our physical move into Zoology, and the subsequent change of seminar venue, there is now going to be a change to the ADU seminars themselves. A decision has been taken within Zoology to move the Departmental Seminars to Wednesday lunchtime from their previous slot at 4pm. This is to make sure that there is a regular event which most of the staff members and students in the department can attend, without having to worry about outside commitments.
Since these new Departmental Seminars would clash with the ADU seminar timeslot, and since many of the seminars hosted by the ADU are of broad interest, the bulk of what once would have been called ADU seminars will now, fittingly, become Departmental Seminars. From time to time there may be seminars that would not really make sense as Departmental seminars or speakers who cannot make the official Wednesday lunchtime slot. So, in these instances, the ADU seminar will live on, but for the most part our seminars will be seamlessly integrated into the new look Zoology Departmental Seminars. Just to prove it, the Departmental Seminars will be kicked off by a presentation by new ADU Postdoc, Dr Tali Hoffman. The Departmental Seminars will take place in the Zoology Museum and will run from 13:00 to 14:00 at least every other Wednesday, starting next week on 8 February. Tea and Coffee will be served from 12:40 before each seminar and the talks will be 30–40 minutes long to leave plenty of time for questions and discussion afterwards. We will continue to advertise seminars by means of the ADU website and seminar list, but will do so for both Departmental Seminars and any ad hoc ADU seminars that take place.
Tali's talk will be entitled "Mapping Africa's Mammals: The ADU's Newest Atlas Project" and the abstract is below:
In Africa, our knowledge of mammal distribution patterns is based largely on historical records. However, the last three centuries have seen extensive human-modification of African landscapes with the associated conversion, compression and fragmentation of natural land. With further land development presenting a likely reality for the future, the effectiveness of mammal conservation efforts will be reliant on the updating of ecological records to accurately reflect mammal distribution patterns in the 21st Century. Although these updates occur inadvertently through small-scale ecological studies, these typically only address the distribution of select species and or populations in particular locations. More comprehensive efforts include studies that map the predicted distribution of mammals in larger geographical areas based on their historical distribution and their habitat requirements. However, there remains a glaring lack of broad-scale, empirical studies that comprehensively map the current distribution of mammal species across the African continent. In this talk I'll be explaining how the ADU is planning to remedy this information deficit over the next few years.
I hope many of you will be able to make it to the first new look Zoology Departmental Seminar.
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Saturday 11 February 2012 – ADU 20th anniversary celebration, National Botanical Gardens, Pietermaritzburg
Following the successful ADU 20th anniversary celebrations at Kirstenbosch on 11 June and Pretoria on 15 October, our next celebratory event takes place in KwaZulu-Natal, at the National Botanical Gardens in Pietermaritzburg. The event will take place on Saturday 11 February 2012 in the Clivia Room. This is in fact our final 20th anniversary event.
The programme for the day involves ADU staff and supporters. It will start at 10h00 (tea/coffee from 09h30), we will have a picnic lunch together, and the programme will end around 15h00. This is an opportunity to interact with fellow volunteers from the full variety of ADU projects and to celebrate 20 years of ADU citizen science in South Africa. Our objective is to have a programme designed to provide feedback on our citizen science projects, and how the resulting data are used in science and conservation.
Registration is now open for this event. Go to http://20.adu.org.za to sign up. There is no charge and entrance to the gardens (if you do not have a BotSoc card) will be at the student rate (R8.00).
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SABAP2 analysis team does 3355_1825 for SABAP2012
Pentad 3355_1825 covers some of the southern suburbs of Cape Town, with Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens being one of the best birding spots within the pentad. This week, we are hosting a visit from Dr Jim Nichols, who is a senior scientist at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, USA. The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center is a centre of excellence in the analysis of biodiversity data with a long history of research that supports endangered species recovery. Their website says: "Our vision and mission define our purpose and direction – our approach is to ensure that relevant, high quality science supports society's needs."
So this week the group of statisticians who are doing the "top end" analyses of SABAP2 data, and the comparisons with SABAP1 data, are meeting with Jim to learn from him, and to discuss the various analyses we are proposing. A subset of the group took Jim atlasing this morning. We tackled pentad 3355_1825, the pentad that includes the Kirstenbosch National Botanic Gardens, UCT, Rondebosch Common, the River Club, and much of the centre of the City of Cape Town. If Jim is going to help us with the data analysis, it is critically important that he sees the protocol in action.
The picture was taken in Kirstenbosch, when our list was about 25 species. On the left is ADU MSc student Megan Loftie-Eaton, who will be doing a broad brush sweep across all species. Next is Jorinde Prokosch, MSc student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (who had arrived at 22h30 last night from Norway), and who will be doing the final project component of her MSc at the ADU. David Maphisa, BirdLife South Africa, is doing his PhD on the management of the high altitude grasslands around the ESKOM Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme, and who is using occupancy modelling in his analyses. Res Altwegg leads the group; he works at SANBI and is an ADU Honorary Research Associate. Finally Jim Nichols, our guest. Jim is doing a talk tomorrow at UCT; the details are here.
After spending the first hour at Kirstenbosch, we moved to the River Club in Observatory (we spotted African Harrier Hawk above the rush hour traffic on the M3. We walked along the Liesbeek River as far as its confluence with the Black River, and the list grew to close on 50 at the end of the second hour. This is the first list for this pentad this year – once it is submitted it will make a contribution to increasing the coverage statistic of SABAP2012 – but the analysis team says "Please make the sample sizes per pentad as large as possible. It really helps us."
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