Research and Study

Call for papers: Journal of Pollination Ecology

The Journal of Pollination Ecology is an open access online journal that aims to promote the exchange of original knowledge and research in any area of pollination issues. The Journal of Pollination Ecology is a peer-reviewed journal, which publishes original research articles, short communications and review articles in all fields of pollination. The emphasis will be on publishing quality papers rapidly and freely available to researchers and the public worldwide.

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Putting your research project on the map

Many of you might be familiar with the MAPA project - the folks who drive around Africa mapping protected areas for Google Earth. Google Earth, in turn, has given MAPA a digital map on which to pin information about these protected areas, which MAPA is using to develop a story board of conservation in Africa (see the attached one-pager, and let me know if you’d like a more detailed information document).

MAPA’s digital map includes information bubbles on protected areas, priority wildlife (threatened animal and plant species), priority habitats such as biodiversity hotspots, endemic and important bird areas, Ramsar sites, World Heritage sites and biosphere reserves, blogs, articles and media. Most importantly, we at MAPA would like the map to comprehensively cover research and conservation activity in Africa. For this we need you to help us, by adding your research project to the database (and asking other researchers to do the same). On Google Earth your research project will look more or less like the attached example, with up to five different tabs, depending on how much information you decide to add. You can embed videos and blogs, add photos, add links to popular and scientific articles, links to your own, more detailed website, links to the homepages of your funding and affiliated organisations, links to more detailed information on your study species, and (coming soon) upload telemetry tracks and wildlife distribution maps. You decide how much or how little you want to add - the content is entirely up to you.

Adding your project is a very simple affair, and won’t take you long: simply reply to this email (alta.devos@gmail.com), and I will send you a password (for quality control - we don’t want “the effect of researcher hiking boots on the aura of lions” on there!) and instructions. You can then login to the online database and add your information. We don’t have a facility for you to preview your KML files (digital mapping files that overlay onto Google Earth) yet, but I can send you a screenshot of your project and what it will look like if desired.

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Tswalu Foundation: Research opportunities at Tswalu Kalahari

The newly developed Tswalu Foundation invites academics and students to submit research proposals to the foundation and encourages interested persons to contribute to the Foundation thus assisting in funding further research on Tswalu Kalahari.

Tswalu Kalahari is a member of the Diamond Route. The Diamond Route is a massive national project which focuses on linking the conservation properties of the Oppenheimer family and De Beers.

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South Africa’s 2nd National Communication to the UNFCCC: A call for expressions of interest in making a scientific contribution

South Africa is committed to submitting its Second National Communication (SNC) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in partial fulfilment of its obligations under this Convention, by early 2011. A call for expressions of interest is hereby issued to interested and appropriately qualified individuals and research groups to participate in this project.

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