Join the #Ocean20 conversation! 🇿🇦South Africa's inaugural Inception Meeting is on 28 May 2025 🗓️ Science, government, youth & industry unite for a sustainable ocean future 🌊 sancor.nrf.ac.za/Documents/O20_… DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION UN Global Compact SAEON #G20

Have you ever received funding or any other opportunities from the NRF and its Business Units, Centres of Excellence, or SA Research Chairs? Story submissions are open for the NRF's #YouthMonth2025 celebrations here: nrf.ac.za/invitation-you…

Congratulations to Salusiwe Mxayiya from Luhlaza High School in Cape Town - one of the learners and schools supported by the NRF-SAEON Egagasini Node. A special thanks to Myebmx for his invaluable guidance SAEON National Research Foundation of South Africa DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION. Continue to make us proud! 🎉

🦈SAEON & The South African Polar Research Infrastructure successfully satellite tagged white #sharks in Mossel Bay, SA 🇿🇦 to track their movements. Where are they going? 🤔 Exciting data coming soon! #Research #MarineScience sapri.ac.za/the-nrf-saeon-…

NRF-SAEON Ndlovu Node & SAEON DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION EFTEON RI are conducting joint vegetation sampling in the Lowveld. National Research Foundation of South Africa

Team South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 arrived safely in Columbus, Ohio in the USA to participate in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2025! The team includes: • Salusiwe Mxayiya – Luhlaza High School, Cape Town • Naveera Chana – Tesseract Homeschool,

Dr Warren Joubert is a researcher at NRF-SAEON's Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network. In this video, he tells us more about the EFTEON program and his interest in the ocean. youtu.be/lGQzcj3Sl4k SAEON

PhD student recently affiliated with @SAEON Grasslands Node, Ameera Yacoob, presented MSc research, UAV-based evapotranspiration estimation @ SANCID Symposium, 6-8 May 2025. A platform to discuss precision agriculture, smallholder farming & water mngt. & climate variability.

Nomvelo Mapinda, science engagement intern, facilitating an exhibition with learners at the Anton Lembede Mathematics, Sciences & Technology Academy in KZN. National Research Foundation of South Africa DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION SAASTA

SAEON EFTEON's chief technician, Abri, with Grasslands Node technicians Kent & Siphiwe, calibrating Eddy covariance systems & rain gauges in KZN Maputaland LTSER site. Elter Correa @us_lter @oz_flux #OneNRF National Research Foundation of South Africa DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

🌾 South Africa's rangelands are vital for water purification, carbon storage, and biodiversity conservation. theconversation.com/southern-afric… 💻 Kevin Kirkman, Craig Morris, University of KZN and Helga van der Merwe, SAEON #RangelandConservation #ScienceAndTech

The NRF’s 2026 Master’s and Doctoral Funding call is available here: nrf.ac.za/dsi-nrf-postgr… It is compulsory for applicants to consult the NRF’s official documents (Framework, Application, and FAQ Guides) before posting queries or submitting applications.

You are invited to the Seamount Deep Dive on the Around Africa Expedition Webinar, May 29, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM UTC. Zoom registration: bit.ly/seamountdeepdi… Live stream: youtube.com/live/AagKCYMay… National Research Foundation of South Africa DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION South African Network for Coastal&Oceanic Research The South African Polar Research Infrastructure

From desktop work to field work. SAEON Grasslands Node’s administrator, Busii Mdunge, joined SAEON student Nosihle for sampling in the Northern Drakensberg. She had a chance to work with some equipment she helps procure & better understand the work her team does in the field.

A great day in the field with SAEON Grasslands' Node learners conducting field work to collect data for their Blue School Project by assessing different types of zones at Sodwana Bay Beach. OceanX UN Ocean Decade National Research Foundation of South Africa DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Grasslands Node celebrated pre-#BiodiversityDay with Gr. 9 learners @ Moses Zikhali High. Learners were introduced to citizen science & entered the SAEON science engagement iNaturalist competition to explore biodiversity around their school. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION National Research Foundation of South Africa iNaturalist

DFFE S.A. Agulhas II Open Day in Durban. We’re having fun engaging with the learners today about opportunities in the marine and polar research fields - shaping the future The South African Polar Research Infrastructure [email protected] Environmentza DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION National Research Foundation of South Africa SAEON #SAAGII #OpenDay #SAPolarRI

NRF-SAEON EFTEON Technicians gingerly catching a Puff adder during specialist training- let’s hope the need to utilize these new skills in the field does not arise National Research Foundation of South Africa DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Phumudzo & Tshililo visited the Ikhutseng community situated in Warrenton, Northern Cape, to introduce communities to citizen science & the iNaturalist Challenge as we celebrate International #BiodiversityDay today. National Research Foundation of South Africa DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION iNaturalist

Meet Dr Gregor Feig. He is the Manager of the Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON) at NRF-SAEON. In this video, he tells us more about his research journey and current research interests. SAEON youtu.be/owkcUImyIac