SimOcean
Simulating and forecasting southern Africa's ocean

MSc / PhD Qualifications

PhD

  • Natalie Burls (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
    • The role of ocean dynamics within tropical Atlantic climate variability
    • Supervisors: Chris Reason, Pierrick Penven, George Philander
    • natalie.burls@uct.ac.za
  • Charine Collins (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
  • Obadias Jacinto Cossa (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
  • Penny Driver (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
    • Investigating African climate using an adaptive grid global atmospheric model
    • Supervisors: Frank Shillington, Chris Reason, George Philander, Abiodun Babatunde
    • penny.driver@uct.ac.za
  • Issufo Halo (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
    • Hydrodynamics of the Mozambiquan Channel
    • Supervisors: Pierrick Penven, Isabelle Ansorge, Stewart Bernard
    • issufo.halo@uct.ac.za
  • Ben Loveday (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
    • Modelling the palaeoclimate ocean exchange; to what extent does the Agulhas leakage mediate inter-ocean transfer under past climatic conditions?
    • Supervisors: Chris Reason
    • ben.loveday@uct.ac.za
  • Majuto Manyilizu (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
    • Numerical simulations on the variability of dynamics and physical processes of the East African ocean.
    • Supervisors: Chris Reason
    • majuto.manvilizu@uct.ac.za
  • Fialho Nehama (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
  • Roy van Ballegooyen (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
    • Nearshore coastal oceanography of the Natal Bight
    • Supervisor: Frank Shillington
    • rvballeg@csir.co.za

MSc

  • Sarah Nicholson (Department of Oceanography, UCT)
    • Modelling the False Bay circulation and thermal structure
    • Supervisor: Frank Shillington
    • sarahanne.n@gmail.com