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UCT Research Report '11
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Departmental Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff
Professors
6
Associate Professors
7
Senior Lecturers
2
Lecturers
4
Research Staff
3
Librarian
1
Technical Support Staff
4
Scientific Officers
5
Administrative and Clerical Staff
8
Laboratory Assistants
2
Total
42
Honorary Staff
Research Associates
15
Emeritus Professors
3
Emeritus Associate Professors
2
Professors
3
Associate Professor
1
Total
23
Contract Staff
Research Assistants
6
Students
Postdoctoral
26
Doctoral
53
Master’s
86
Honours
9
Undergraduate
652
Total
826
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent Staff
Associate Professor Colin Attwood
Marine protected areas; line fish population ecology.
Dr Jacqui Bishop
Lecturer. Evolutionary biology and conservation genetics.
Dr Gary Bronner
Senior Lecturer; systematics, ecology and conservation
biology of African small mammals, with emphasis on
endemic and threatened golden moles; Scientific Editor:
African Zoology
Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
Head of Department. Palaeobiologist. Undertakes
comparative bone and teeth histology of extant and
extinct vertebrates (such as dinosaurs, Mesozoic birds,
pterosaurs, nonmammalian therapsids, as well as, more
recent Pliocene vertebrates).
Associate Professor Jenny Day
Director of the Freshwater Research Unit; freshwater ecology;
bioasessment; crustaceans; wetlands, particularly temporary
and saline waters; conservation and management of inland
water ecosystems; water chemistry and water quality
Professor Charles Griffiths
Director of the Marine Biology Research Centre; aquatic
invasive alien species; biodiversity and endemicity
patterns of African marine fauna; coastal marine ecology;
amphipod taxonomy
Associate Professor John Hoffmann
Integrating biological control into the management of alien
invasive weeds in South Africa
Associate Professor David Jacobs
DST & NRF Research Chair in Animal Evolution and
Systematics. Evolutionary biology; behavioural ecology,
systematics and evolutionary development; bats and other
mammals
Associate Professor Astrid Jarre
DST & NRF Research Chair in Marine Ecology & Fisheries.
Ecosystem modeling: ecosystem approach to fisheries
management, collaboration between social and natural
scientists
Associate Professor Mike Lucas
Honorary Research Fellowship, National Oceanography
Centre, Southampton, UK. UCT: biological oceanography;
biogeochemical cycling; phytoplankton dynamics,
carbon/nitrogen cycling and climate change. Research
in the Benguela upwelling, North and South Atlantic
and Southern Ocean ecosystems. South African Surface
Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) SSC
Dr Heather Marco
Lecturer; Neuropeptide purification/biochemistry;
crustacean neuroendocrinology & physiology; insect
neuroendocrinolgy; Convenor of second year Form and
function (Ecophysiology) course. Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Research Fellow
Associate Professor Coleen Moloney
Plankton ecology; ecosystem dynamics; fisheries ecology;
ecological modelling.
Associate Professor Justin O’Riain
Social mammals; behavioural ecology; vertebrate
reproduction