NRF Annual Report 2018

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PART B: PERFORMANCE TABLE 20: BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES PERFORMANCE AGAINST STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2 – 2017/18 (SAIAB AND SAEON) An internationally competitive, transformed and representative research system STRATEGIC OUTCOME Objective statement 2 Enhance strategic international engagements Promote system-wide international engagement and collaboration to support emerging knowledge fields and provide local researchers with access to innovative research infrastructure. NRF Objective 1 links to: • MTSF priorities 10 and 11. Critical implementation activities • Promote system-wide international engagement; and • Facilitate international research platform access. INDICATORS Number of joint international agreements at National Research Facilities BUDGET (R (000)) Actual 2016/17 Target 2017/18 Actual 2017/18 Variance 14 32 16 -50% Budget 2016/17 Budget 2017/18 Actual 2017/18 Variance Summary comment on variance Several agreements at SAEON have not been formally renewed. Summary comment on variance Internationalisation 1 064 1 279 1 108 171 106 NRF Annual Report 2017/18
PART B: PERFORMANCE 10.4.3 Establish and maintain research infrastructure and platforms SAIAB provides three distinct research platforms to the research community. Growth in these platforms has been exponential with a number of major upgrades taking place. Performance highlights included: • ACEP facilitated three cruises during the financial year, two on the R/V Phakisa and one on the R/V AngraPequena. A total of 17 students from various universities who are on the Ocean Stewards programme and a further eight postgraduate students participated on the R/V AngraPequena cruise; Seventy two (72) dives were undertaken during these cruises using the Seaeye Falcon ROV (a robot which dives hundreds of meters into the ocean). A new depth record of 248 meters was achieved; • Molecular Genetics Laboratory: Sequencing capabilities have increased since the acquisition of new equipment. The lab is fully subscribed and discussions are under way to develop a Genomics “hub” between SAIAB and Rhodes University. A new state-of-the-art sequencer is in the process of being procured; • Ecophysiology Laboratory: Experiments in the new state-of-the-art laboratory are extensive with students and staff from SAIAB, Rhodes University and University of Fort Hare making use of the platform; and • A state-of-the-art coastal research vessel, Phakisa, with precision ROV and high resolution mapping capabilities is stationed in KwaZulu-Natal. This platform provides access to research infrastructure and associated funding to the research community to undertake research along the east coast of South Arica. This access is in the form of physical oceanography, marine geology, phytoplankton and zooplankton to animals burrowing into the marine sediments, fish, marine mammals and birds from nearshore to 40 nautical miles offshore. SAEON has been awarded two new observational research infrastructures through South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap (SARIR), the Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON); and the Shallow Marine and Coastal Research Infrastructure (SMCRI). These, in addition to the Agulhas System Climate Array (ASCA) and the Strategic Research Infrastructure Grant (SRIG), will accelerate knowledge about the interconnectedness of earth systems. A new 9.3 m Catamaran research vessel was acquired by SAEON Elwandle node. The research vessel Calanus was procured in 2017 to serve as a research platform in the Algoa Bay Sentinel Site for Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER). The vessel has been used extensively for the Pelagic Ecosystem programme, service and maintenance of the Continuous Monitoring Programme, Benthic Reef programme as well as ad hoc for several research projects from NMU, RU, SAIAB and DAFF. SAEON Grassland node expanded the Maputaland coastal plain research infrastructure platform with the completion of several new monitoring boreholes in the Vazi area, north of Lake Sibayi. This contributes to monitoring and understanding the relative impacts of climate and land use of the groundwater resources of this catchment. Funding for this expansion was provided by the DEA Natural Resource Management programme. This has been identified by government as one of the priority areas requiring focal attention. The expansion of the SAEON Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands (GFW) platform into this area as an extension of the existing long-term groundwater monitoring project in iSimangaliso Wetland Park has been guided by a WRC project. In addition, temporary monitoring wells were installed on the edge of Lake Sibayi. Lake levels have dropped significantly over the last few years and DWS currently has no means to monitor lake level. A workshop held by SAEON GFW node in May 2017 identified monitoring and data gaps that SAEON is now filling in order to enable work to determine relative contribution of land use and climate to the dropping groundwater level in the area. SAEON, DWS and the academic community surveyed all the key monitoring wells, identifying the need to improve their model calibrations. NRF Annual Report 2017/18 107
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