Ms. Judith Arnolds - Chief Auxiliary Services Officer

Extensive technical laboratory experience especially with chemical and biochemical measurements. Also proficient with UV-B, field-based, greenhouse and microcosm experiments.
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Dr. Phoebe Barnard - Specialist Scientist

Conservation biologist with a background in ornithology, evolution and behaviour, strategic biodiversity policy, planning and implementation in Namibia, land degradation, long-term ecological research network planning, and invasive species strategic planning.
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Mr. Barney Kgope - Principal Scientist

Ecophysiologist dealing with responses of South African mesic savanna ecosystems (C 3 trees and C 4 grasses) to past, present and future atmospheric CO 2 and interactions with fire.
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Mr. Brian Mantlana - Principal Agricultural Scientist

Plant ecophysiologist of tropical savanna ecosystems, in particular those dominated by C 4 plant species. Studies the influence of environmental factors on leaf-level carbon and water fluxes.
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Dr. Guy Midgley - Chief Specialist Scientist (head of unit)

Plant physiologist who became interested in climate change through trying to understand how rising carbon dioxide and UV-b radiation would affect plant success in an ecological context. Initiated the study of this phenomenon in South Africa in the early 1990's, expanding to broader scale studies in diverse ecosystems of the subcontinent.
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Dr. Charles Musil - Senior Specialist Scientist

Ecologist looking at local and regional effects of global climate change, especially increases in solar ultraviolet-B radiation, atmospheric CO 2 , temperature and drought stress on the ecology, physiology, mineral nutrition, reproduction, N 2 fixation and genetics of South African Mediterranean-climate ecosystems and traditional African commercial plants.
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Ms. Fatima Parker-Allie - Senior Scientist

Currently researching the effects of alien invasive grasses under current and future climatic change scenarios on southern African biodiversity. This project involves modelling, microcosm experiments and a field component.
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Mr. Stanley Snyders - Technical Officer

Design, assembly and installation of greenhouse, microcosm, and field-based experimental support systems. Assisting with maintenance of experimental infrastructure and equipment.

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Dr. Wilfried Thuiller - Specialist Scientist

Has a PhD from the University of Montpellier, France (2003), where he mainly focused on the impacts of global change on biodiversity in Europe . In 2004, he joined the Global Change Research Group as a postdoctoral fellow and is involved in numerous elaborate projects to predict the dynamic response of species and plant functional types to changing landscapes.
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Mr. Deryck de Witt - Technical Manager

Deryck's primary role is managing the research greenhouse facilities and monitoring experiments including calibration and servicing of scientific equipment.
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