Position: Professor of Water & Environmental Science
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2871
Fax: +27 (021) 959 3118
Email: dmazvimavi@uwc.ac.za
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2871
Fax: +27 (021) 959 3118
Email: dmazvimavi@uwc.ac.za
Biography
Dominic Mazvimavi is a Professor of Water and Environmental Science in the Department of Earth Sciences. Prof Mazvimavi obtained a PhD in Hydrology from the Wageningen University and the International Institute of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation in the Netherlands, MSc in Hydrology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Prof Mazvimavi has the following editorial appointments: (i) 2007 to present, Managing Guest Editor/Theme Editor for the Journal of the Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, (ii) 2007 to present, Associate Editor of International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, and (iii) from 2012, Associate Editor Hydrological Earth Systems Science Journal. Prof Mazvimavi has research interests on water resources planning and management, hydrological regionalization, effects of land-use change on runoff, and environmental flow assessment in South Africa and the SADC region. He has previously worked at the Okavango Research Institute of the University of Botswana (2005-2008), and Department of Geography and Environmental Science of the University of Zimbabwe (1987 – 2004).Position: Extraordinary Professor
Email: jackie.king@watermatters.co.za
Jackie King is an aquatic ecologist and an Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies since 2012. She previously worked as a researcher, lecturer and supervisor of postgraduates at the University of Cape Town for almost four decades. She now owns and runs Water Matters, a water-resource consultancy specialising in the science of integrated flow management (instream flows; environmental flows) of rivers and is an internationally recognised leader in the field.
Prof King is the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for her game-changing contributions to global river management.
https://www.siwi.org/prizes/stockholmwaterprize/laureates/2019-2/#discoverWork
In 2018 Prof King was elected an International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newfellows.aspx?s=a
In 2016 she received the Gold Medal of the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists and was the 2016 recipient of WWF-SA’s Living Planet Award.
Her work in South Africa was recognised in the 1990s with a Silver Medal from the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists and in 2003 through the government awarding her the national Women in Water Award in the research category. In 2010 she was appointed an inaugural member of the National Water Advisory Council to advise the South African Minister of Water Affairs.
In 2010 Prof King was first editor and an author of the book Sustainable use of South Africa’s inland waters, which records South Africa’s moves to provide environmental protection measures for aquatic ecosystems. In 2014 she was the lead author of the chapter Hydropower and the river in a book Sustainable hydropower in Asia planned by the Asian Development Bank. In 2016 she wrote, as part of a team of four, a Good Practice Handbook for World Bank project managers worldwide dealing with downstream releases linked to proposals for hydropower dams. She also provided the ecological input to a World-Bank funded Multi-sectoral Investment Opportunities Assessment of the Okavango River Basin and provided similar inputs to a DFID-funded project on Climate Resilience Development Pathways for the Okavango Basin. She is presently the Ecological Lead in an EU-funded project Technical Assistance for Transboundary Water Management of the Okavango River Basin.
Prof King believes that the social and ecological consequences of the development of river systems should be addressed at the same level as engineering and economic aspects, so that decision-makers can assess the full spectrum of costs and benefits before making a development decision. In the 1990s she led the early development of methods to do this in South Africa, which resulted in flows for river maintenance being included in the country’s 1998 National Water Act: South Africa’s Minister of Water Affairs and this Act won the Stockholm Water Prize in 2000.
In 1997, Prof King led the flow assessment for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which resulted in the first recorded recognition globally of the rights of downstream communities to compensation for declining river health. She was global Team Leader of the World Bank advisory group on environmental flows from 2000-2003 and resigned from that position to take up one as a scientific consultant on integrated flow management to the Mekong River Commission.
Since 1997 she has also led scientific teams working on environmental flows and river system management for the Pungwe River, Zimbabwe; parts of the Zambezi Basin (Kafue and Luangwa); the Pangani Basin, Tanzania; the Okavango River system (Angola, Namibia, Botswana); and the headwaters of the Indus River system in Pakistan. She has been contracted to do work of a similar nature for the World Commission on Dams, World Bank, IUCN, WWF, and has worked in Taiwan, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, USA, Guatemala, Australia, Mozambique, and the UK.
From 2009 to 2014 she acted as scientific advisor to the Government of Pakistan in a dispute with India over the Kishenganga Dam in the Himalayas, and in this respect served as an expert witness at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in August 2012. In 2012 she completed for WWF a plan for setting and implementing Environmental Flows for the entire Zambezi Basin, and between 2013 and 2018 worked with WWF-Zambia and the Zambian government on flow management of two parts of this system: the Kafue and Luangwa tributaries of the Zambezi.
Prof King frequently speaks as a keynote or invited speaker at international conferences, and has more than 100 refereed items in books, international journals and conference proceedings.
She presently serves on the Board of Directors of WWF-SA and the Research Advisory Panel of South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. She serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor to the International Crane Foundation and as a member of AAAS’s global project Water Security in a Changing Climate. She is a South African National Parks Honorary Ranger, serving on the Regional Committee for the Table Mountain National Park region and holding the Training portfolio.
Email: jackie.king@watermatters.co.za
Jackie King is an aquatic ecologist and an Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies since 2012. She previously worked as a researcher, lecturer and supervisor of postgraduates at the University of Cape Town for almost four decades. She now owns and runs Water Matters, a water-resource consultancy specialising in the science of integrated flow management (instream flows; environmental flows) of rivers and is an internationally recognised leader in the field.
Prof King is the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for her game-changing contributions to global river management.
https://www.siwi.org/prizes/stockholmwaterprize/laureates/2019-2/#discoverWork
In 2018 Prof King was elected an International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newfellows.aspx?s=a
In 2016 she received the Gold Medal of the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists and was the 2016 recipient of WWF-SA’s Living Planet Award.
Her work in South Africa was recognised in the 1990s with a Silver Medal from the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists and in 2003 through the government awarding her the national Women in Water Award in the research category. In 2010 she was appointed an inaugural member of the National Water Advisory Council to advise the South African Minister of Water Affairs.
In 2010 Prof King was first editor and an author of the book Sustainable use of South Africa’s inland waters, which records South Africa’s moves to provide environmental protection measures for aquatic ecosystems. In 2014 she was the lead author of the chapter Hydropower and the river in a book Sustainable hydropower in Asia planned by the Asian Development Bank. In 2016 she wrote, as part of a team of four, a Good Practice Handbook for World Bank project managers worldwide dealing with downstream releases linked to proposals for hydropower dams. She also provided the ecological input to a World-Bank funded Multi-sectoral Investment Opportunities Assessment of the Okavango River Basin and provided similar inputs to a DFID-funded project on Climate Resilience Development Pathways for the Okavango Basin. She is presently the Ecological Lead in an EU-funded project Technical Assistance for Transboundary Water Management of the Okavango River Basin.
Prof King believes that the social and ecological consequences of the development of river systems should be addressed at the same level as engineering and economic aspects, so that decision-makers can assess the full spectrum of costs and benefits before making a development decision. In the 1990s she led the early development of methods to do this in South Africa, which resulted in flows for river maintenance being included in the country’s 1998 National Water Act: South Africa’s Minister of Water Affairs and this Act won the Stockholm Water Prize in 2000.
In 1997, Prof King led the flow assessment for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which resulted in the first recorded recognition globally of the rights of downstream communities to compensation for declining river health. She was global Team Leader of the World Bank advisory group on environmental flows from 2000-2003 and resigned from that position to take up one as a scientific consultant on integrated flow management to the Mekong River Commission.
Since 1997 she has also led scientific teams working on environmental flows and river system management for the Pungwe River, Zimbabwe; parts of the Zambezi Basin (Kafue and Luangwa); the Pangani Basin, Tanzania; the Okavango River system (Angola, Namibia, Botswana); and the headwaters of the Indus River system in Pakistan. She has been contracted to do work of a similar nature for the World Commission on Dams, World Bank, IUCN, WWF, and has worked in Taiwan, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, USA, Guatemala, Australia, Mozambique, and the UK.
From 2009 to 2014 she acted as scientific advisor to the Government of Pakistan in a dispute with India over the Kishenganga Dam in the Himalayas, and in this respect served as an expert witness at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague in August 2012. In 2012 she completed for WWF a plan for setting and implementing Environmental Flows for the entire Zambezi Basin, and between 2013 and 2018 worked with WWF-Zambia and the Zambian government on flow management of two parts of this system: the Kafue and Luangwa tributaries of the Zambezi.
Prof King frequently speaks as a keynote or invited speaker at international conferences, and has more than 100 refereed items in books, international journals and conference proceedings.
She presently serves on the Board of Directors of WWF-SA and the Research Advisory Panel of South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. She serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor to the International Crane Foundation and as a member of AAAS’s global project Water Security in a Changing Climate. She is a South African National Parks Honorary Ranger, serving on the Regional Committee for the Table Mountain National Park region and holding the Training portfolio.
Position: Emeritus Professor of Botany
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2306
Fax: +27 (021) 959 2312
Email: lraitt@uwc.ac.za
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2306
Fax: +27 (021) 959 2312
Email: lraitt@uwc.ac.za
Biography:
Prof Lincoln Raitt is an Emeritus Professor of Botany with research interests on plant ecophysiology, use of plants as indicators of water quality, relationships between water table depth and distribution of some plant species, uptake of heavy metals by plants and riparian flora.Position: UNESCO Chair in Hydrogeology
Tel: +27 (021) 959 3882
Fax:
Email: yxu@uwc.ac.za
Tel: +27 (021) 959 3882
Fax:
Email: yxu@uwc.ac.za
Biography:
Prof. Yongxin Xu is a Senior Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of the Western Cape and the UNESCO Chairholder in Geohydrology. After brief academic jobs in China and UK, he came to South Africa in 1989 and spent most of his career in groundwater investigations for then Geological Survey and Water Affairs. He has taken up the position of the UNESCO Professor of Hydrogeology based at UWC since 2001. His research, mostly conducted together with his PhD students, has dealt with sustainable groundwater resources management, published more than 50 peer reviewed papers and three books in the areas of groundwater recharge, pollution and management. The scope of his research covers many facets of groundwater, including socio-economical, environmental and cultural, political and institutional issues. These diverse topics have provided multi-disciplinary research opportunities for many postgraduates at both PhD and MSc level. Having facilitated various international workshops and projects, he holds the position of Guest Professor at universities including China and Australia. He is a Commissioner of Africa Groundwater Commission for AMCOW, and the Secretary General of ChinAfrica Water Forum.Position: Associate Professor in Environmental and Water Science
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2686
Fax: +27 (021) 959 3118
Email: njovanovic@uwc.ac.za
Biography:
Nebo Jovanovic is Associate Professor in Environmental and Water Science having obtained a
PhD from the University of Pretoria and an MSc from CIHEAM, Bari, Italy. He has over 20 years
of experience in the water sector having conducted, led and published research in water
resource management, soil, hydrological and groundwater modelling, dryland salinity, food
security and drought impacts in small-holder irrigated farming systems, and applications of
remote sensing in water management. He was Editor in Chief of Agricultural Water
Management (2011-2020) and currently member of the Advisory Board. He was member of
the Editorial Board of Water SA (2008-2011) and currently Associate Editor of the South
African Journal of Plant and Soil (2002-2004). His current and future research interests include
the determination of water use and consumption to improve water allocations in semi-arid
areas, in particular to agricultural water users, adaptation strategies to climate change and
interventions for augmentation of water supply and water management in drought-prone
areas.
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2686
Fax: +27 (021) 959 3118
Email: njovanovic@uwc.ac.za
Biography:
Nebo Jovanovic is Associate Professor in Environmental and Water Science having obtained a
PhD from the University of Pretoria and an MSc from CIHEAM, Bari, Italy. He has over 20 years
of experience in the water sector having conducted, led and published research in water
resource management, soil, hydrological and groundwater modelling, dryland salinity, food
security and drought impacts in small-holder irrigated farming systems, and applications of
remote sensing in water management. He was Editor in Chief of Agricultural Water
Management (2011-2020) and currently member of the Advisory Board. He was member of
the Editorial Board of Water SA (2008-2011) and currently Associate Editor of the South
African Journal of Plant and Soil (2002-2004). His current and future research interests include
the determination of water use and consumption to improve water allocations in semi-arid
areas, in particular to agricultural water users, adaptation strategies to climate change and
interventions for augmentation of water supply and water management in drought-prone
areas.
Position: Associate Professor
Tel: +27 (021) 959 9293
Fax:
Email: ekapangaziwiri@uwc.ac.za
Evison Kapangaziwiri is an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Science in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Institute for Water Studies (IWS). Prof Kapangaziwiri obtained his MSc and PhD in Hydrology from Rhodes University in South Africa. He has worked as a research scientist in hydrology and water resources management at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Prof Kapangaziwiri has research interests in rainfall-runoff modelling (processes representation and parameter estimation), uncertainty analysis and estimation, sensitivity analysis and process optimization, desert hydrology (hydrological modelling arid and semi-arid environments), climate and environmental change impacts on water resources, water resources planning and management, river transmission losses assessment and environmental flows and low flows analysis.
Prof Kapangaziwiri is an active member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), South African Hydrological Society (SAHS), Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) and is a registered professional scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SANASP). Prof Kapangaziwiri is a C3-rated scientist by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. Prof Kapangaziwiri publishes regularly on issues of hydrology and water resources management across Africa.
Tel: +27 (021) 959 9293
Fax:
Email: ekapangaziwiri@uwc.ac.za
Biography:
Prof Evison Kapangaziwiri is a surface water hydrologist with over 25 years of professional experience in diverse aspects of surface water hydrology, hydrological and systems modelling, uncertainty analysis in water resources assessments and integrated water resources management. Evison is skilled in operational hydrology, hydrological modelling, water resources science, water resources management, and flooding management as well as being competent in the acquisition, processing, and analysis of hydrological data. Evison’s expertise encompasses catchment-scale hydrology, hydrological science, hydrological modelling application of scientific methods in ungauged catchments, land use and climate change impacts on hydrology & water resources, uncertainty analysis and optimization of estimation in hydrological (and environmental) models, as well as hydroclimatic variability and impact of a changing climate including landcover/land-use on hydrology and water resources.Evison Kapangaziwiri is an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Science in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Institute for Water Studies (IWS). Prof Kapangaziwiri obtained his MSc and PhD in Hydrology from Rhodes University in South Africa. He has worked as a research scientist in hydrology and water resources management at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Prof Kapangaziwiri has research interests in rainfall-runoff modelling (processes representation and parameter estimation), uncertainty analysis and estimation, sensitivity analysis and process optimization, desert hydrology (hydrological modelling arid and semi-arid environments), climate and environmental change impacts on water resources, water resources planning and management, river transmission losses assessment and environmental flows and low flows analysis.
Prof Kapangaziwiri is an active member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), South African Hydrological Society (SAHS), Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) and is a registered professional scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SANASP). Prof Kapangaziwiri is a C3-rated scientist by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. Prof Kapangaziwiri publishes regularly on issues of hydrology and water resources management across Africa.
Position: Senior Lecturer
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2089
Fax: +27 (021) 959 1317
Email: mgrenfell@uwc.ac.za
Tel: +27 (021) 959 2089
Fax: +27 (021) 959 1317
Email: mgrenfell@uwc.ac.za
Biography:
I study the morphodynamics of fluvial ecosystems (rivers and wetlands) in warm humid, sub-humid and semi-arid environments, over timescales ranging from decades to millennia. Through my research I have applied and integrated analyses of hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology to understand physical and biophysical drivers of fluvial ecosystem origin and dynamics. Through both research and vocational practice, I have considered the role, value and challenges of applying such understanding to the management and restoration of wetlands in particular, where geomorphological insight into processes and rates of morphological change is a critical but often neglected component of restoration planning. I favour research approaches that combine insights from a variety of techniques that make independent simplifying assumptions about the nature and dynamics of ecosystems, such as spatial analysis and remote sensing, fieldwork and geochronology, and numerical morphodynamic modelling, and I endeavour always to develop and teach system-level understanding that I believe has great value in management, restoration, and the evaluation of ecosystem services. During my academic career, I have walked in and/or worked on rivers and wetlands across South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the UK, the Swiss Alps, Austria, and Italy. This global ‘field experience’ has significantly shaped my view of nature, my understanding of the Earth system, and my approach to research and teaching. I teach introductory soil science, surface water processes, fluvial geomorphology, and aquatic ecosystems management.Position: Senior Lecturer
Tel: +27 (021) 959 9292
Fax:
Email: tkanyerere@uwc.ac.za
Tel: +27 (021) 959 9292
Fax:
Email: tkanyerere@uwc.ac.za
Biography:
Dr Thokozani Knayerere, (tkanyerere@uwc.ac.za) is a Senior Lecturer and an environmental hydrogeologist with interest on groundwater management, groundwater-surface water interactions and integrated water resource management. Dr Kanyerere has 18 years of experience in the water sector and teaching water-related subjects. His research interests are on water quality assessment, contaminant hydrology, remediation technologies, hydrology education, water use and water demand management. He has passion on research methods for water and environmental studies. Currently, Dr Kanyerere is leading the groundwater component of a non-perennial river project, which has the aim to improve understanding of groundwater–surface water interaction and assess the implications of such interaction on the river dynamics, plants and animals.Position: Extraordinary Senior Lecturer
Email: kpietersen@slrconsulting.com
Email: kpietersen@slrconsulting.com
Director of the Institute of Water Studies
Position: Professor of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation and Director: Institute for Water Studies (IWS).
Tel: +27 (0)21 959 4130
Fax: +27 (0)21 959 3118
Email: tidube@uwc.ac.za
Land cover analysis
Drought and flood modelling
Agriculture, irrigation and water use
Cloud computing and big data analytics
Earth observation applications
Geostatistics and remote sensing integration
GIS and Global Position System applications
Prof Dube oversaw the completion of 21 MSc and 8 PhD research topics on Water Resources and Environmental Management from 2016 to 2022. At the moment, he is supervising 5 MSc students and 8 PhD candidates. Timothy's MSc and PhD students were recognised for their outstanding research: DVC Research and Innovation Best MSc Nomination Award (2021): Trisha Deevia Bhaga for his research on Satellite monitoring of surface water variability in the drought prone Western Cape, South Africa. DVC Research and Innovation Best PhD Research Award (2020): Bester Tawona Mudereri for his research on understanding Striga occurrence and risk under changing climatic conditions across different agroecological farming systems at local and regional scales.
South Africa - Project Number C2022/2023-00902 – (2022- 2025).
GMES and AFRICA– Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Southern Africa (2022 – 2025).
EO AFRICA R&D: Drought impact on the vegetation of South African semiarid mosaic landscapes: Implications on grass-crop-lands primary production (2022 – 2023).
EO AFRICA R&D: Towards daily maps of water hyacinth cover: exploiting synergies between Sentinel-2 and 3 (2022 – 2023).
2021- Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/remote-sensing-applications-society-and-environment.
2021- to Present –Special Issue Guest Editor for Remote Sensing MDPI on Remote Sensing for Water Resources and Environmental Management.
2022 to Present – Remote Sensing MDPI Special Issue Guest Editor on "Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits"https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Traits.
2022 to Present – Remote Sensing MDPI Special Issue Guest Editor "Remote Sensing for Water Resources and Environmental Management. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/RS_WREM
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3456-8991
2021: Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology Young African Researchers Awards
2018: University of the Western Cape - DVC Research and Innovation Best Early Career Researcher Award.
2018: NRF Best Young Researcher Nominee for the 11th HOPE Meeting with Nobel Laureates in Okinawa, Japan.
2017: Visiting Scholar-Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes & Resources, United Nations University in Germany.
2007: Academic Excellence Book Prize Award (University of Zimbabwe).
2006: Academic Excellence Book Prize Award (University of Zimbabwe).
Earth Science Departmental Representative to the Natural Science Faculty Research Committee (2020 – 2021).
UWC Senate Board Member (2019-Present)
UWC Senate Research Task Team Member (2020-2021).
UWC Faculty board Member (2018-to present)
Tel: +27 (0)21 959 4130
Fax: +27 (0)21 959 3118
Email: tidube@uwc.ac.za
Biography
Timothy Dube is a Professor of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation at the Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Timothy holds a PhD degree in Environmental Science with a focus on GIS and Remote Sensing (2015) from the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and an MSc degree in Water Resources and Environmental Management (WREM) (2012) from the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, the Netherlands as well as an Honours Degree in Geography (2008) from University of Zimbabwe. Timothy Dube's current research and teaching interests includes satellite remote sensing and spatial modeling of water resources and their interactions with the environment, as well as ecosystem responses to changes in the climate and water cycle. Timothy Dube's current research and teaching interests include remote sensing and spatial modeling of water resources and their interactions with the environment, as well as ecosystem responses to climate and water cycle changes. Timothy has over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles in top ISI journals, as well as books and book chapters, to his credit. He is currently editing a book titled "Remote Sensing of Climate Variability," which will be published by Elsevier. Timothy also serves on the technical committees of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment and the African Green Hydrogen Atlas. His involvement with Earth Observation technology applications extends beyond African research to collaborations with various Earth Observation experts from European institutions, promoting Earth Observation knowledge and skills transfer to improve environmental and water policy formulation and decision making in southern Africa and Africa.Research Interests
Water Resources monitoring and assessmentLand cover analysis
Drought and flood modelling
Agriculture, irrigation and water use
Cloud computing and big data analytics
Earth observation applications
Geostatistics and remote sensing integration
GIS and Global Position System applications
Teaching
Timothy Dube teaches EWP311 Geographic Information Systems and EWP702 Advanced Geographic Information Systems to Environmental and Water Science undergraduate and honours students. He is also the Departmental Postgraduate Research Coordinator for Earth Science.Prof Dube oversaw the completion of 21 MSc and 8 PhD research topics on Water Resources and Environmental Management from 2016 to 2022. At the moment, he is supervising 5 MSc students and 8 PhD candidates. Timothy's MSc and PhD students were recognised for their outstanding research: DVC Research and Innovation Best MSc Nomination Award (2021): Trisha Deevia Bhaga for his research on Satellite monitoring of surface water variability in the drought prone Western Cape, South Africa. DVC Research and Innovation Best PhD Research Award (2020): Bester Tawona Mudereri for his research on understanding Striga occurrence and risk under changing climatic conditions across different agroecological farming systems at local and regional scales.
Activities in Capacity Development
Environmental and Water Sciences Coordinator for Annual Postgraduate SeminarsCurrent Projects
Remote sensing of groundwater-dependent ecosystems in the Kruger National Park,South Africa - Project Number C2022/2023-00902 – (2022- 2025).
GMES and AFRICA– Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Southern Africa (2022 – 2025).
EO AFRICA R&D: Drought impact on the vegetation of South African semiarid mosaic landscapes: Implications on grass-crop-lands primary production (2022 – 2023).
EO AFRICA R&D: Towards daily maps of water hyacinth cover: exploiting synergies between Sentinel-2 and 3 (2022 – 2023).
Journal Editorial Work
2020 to Present: Scientific African Journal Editor https://www.journals.elsevier.com/scientific-african/editorial-board.2021- Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/remote-sensing-applications-society-and-environment.
2021- to Present –Special Issue Guest Editor for Remote Sensing MDPI on Remote Sensing for Water Resources and Environmental Management.
2022 to Present – Remote Sensing MDPI Special Issue Guest Editor on "Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits"https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Traits.
2022 to Present – Remote Sensing MDPI Special Issue Guest Editor "Remote Sensing for Water Resources and Environmental Management. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/RS_WREM
Scientific Research Publications
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=bmv3q6MAAAAJ&hl=enORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3456-8991
Scientific Recognition and Awards
2021: University of the Western Cape –DVC Research and Innovation Mid-Career Researcher Award.2021: Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology Young African Researchers Awards
2018: University of the Western Cape - DVC Research and Innovation Best Early Career Researcher Award.
2018: NRF Best Young Researcher Nominee for the 11th HOPE Meeting with Nobel Laureates in Okinawa, Japan.
2017: Visiting Scholar-Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes & Resources, United Nations University in Germany.
2007: Academic Excellence Book Prize Award (University of Zimbabwe).
2006: Academic Excellence Book Prize Award (University of Zimbabwe).
Administrative Work
Earth Science Departmental Representative to the Natural Science Faculty Higher Degrees Committee (2022 – Present).Earth Science Departmental Representative to the Natural Science Faculty Research Committee (2020 – 2021).
UWC Senate Board Member (2019-Present)
UWC Senate Research Task Team Member (2020-2021).
UWC Faculty board Member (2018-to present)
