Nansen Tutu Center
The Nansen Tutu Summer School on Ocean, Climate and Marine Ecosystem:
A focus on the Agulhas Current, the Benguela upwelling system and the Tropical Atlantic
MONDAY Satellite Remote SensingSate
8:45-9:00 Welcome and logistics: Room L James Building University Avenue North, Physcics Dept
TUESDAY Satellite Remote Sensing and physical Oceanography
​9:00-9:45 Benguela Current , a view from space Frank Shillington
​10:45-11:30 Altimetry Issofu Halo
11:30 - 12:15 Modelling and data assimilation in the Agulhas Current Bjorn Backeberg
​12:20 13:20 Lunch at the UCT club
​10:45 - 12:15 Ocean Observatoires by Martin Visbeck
10:30 10:45 Coffee
9:45: 10:30 Agulhas Current , a view from space, Marjolaine Krug
​12:20 13:20 Lunch
10:30 10:45 Coffee break
15:00 17:00 Students projects
​9:00 9:45 Benguela Ninos Joke Lübbecke
WEDNESDAY Physical Oceanography
10:45 12:15 Upwelling regions: Theory, Modelling and Observations by Martin Schmidt and Marcus Dengler
SCHEDULE
​13:30 - 1530 Visit of Glider laboratory Sebastiaan Swart
THURSDAYThClimateTday
16:00 17:30 Students projects
18:30 Braai at the UCT club
​9:00-9:45 Sea Surface Temperature Christo Whittle
9:45 10:30 Ocean Color Stewart Bernard
10:30-10:45 Coffee break ​
13:30 15:00 Wind, Wind Stress, Wind Stress Curl Air Sea Interaction Mathieu Rouault
15:00 17:00 Student Projects​
18:30 Braai​ at UCT club
​12:20 13:20 Lunch at the UCT club
​13:30 - 15:00 Tropical Atlantic by Peter Brandt
18:30 Braai at UCT club
FRIDAY Climateday
​9:00-10:30 Tropical Atlantic Climate variability by Mojib Latif
​12:20 13:20 Lunch
​13:30-15:00 Atlantic multidecadal variability by Tore Furevik
​15:00 17:00 Student project
10:30 10:45 Coffee break
​10:45-12:15 Teleconnections by Belen Rodrigues-Fonseca
18:30 Braai at the UCT club
​9:00-10:30 Modelling Tropical Atlantic Climate by Tomas Tonazzio
10:30 10:45 Coffee break
18:30 Braai at the UCT club
​10:45-12:15 Predicting tropical climate by Noel Keenlyside
​12:20 13:20 Lunch
13:30 1500 Role of Clouds in climate by Nathalie Burls
​15:00 17:00 Student project
Sunday all day Cape Peninsula tour including visit of Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope and Boulder penguins nature reserve
Saturday Morning Visit of Robben Island
MONDAY Marine ecosystem and climate variabilitydayand
17:00 18:30 Student Presentations​
17:00 18:30 Student Presentations​
9:45 10:30 Salinity Johnny Johannessen
17:00 18:30 Student Presentation
17:00 18:30 Student Presentation
17:00 18:30 Student Presentation
​9:00-9:45 Climate change impact in global marine ecosytem Svein Sunby
​9:45 10:30 Climate change impacts on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems Svein Sunby
10:30 10:45 Coffee break
​10:45 11:30 Change in Benguela upwelling nearshore marine ecosystem and possible climate links Laura Blamey
​12:40 13:35 Lunch
​13:45 14:30 Impacts of environmental variability on small pelagic fish Carl Van der Lingen
​11:30 12:30 Enrichment, Transport and Retention in a tropical upwelling system dominated by seasonal Kelvin Waves Marek Ostrowski
​14:30 15:15 Modelling marine ecosytems and their marine environment Olivier Maury
​15:15 16:00 Use of Indexes to monitor marine ecosystems Lynn Shannon
16:00 1630 Coffee break
18:30 Braai at the UCT club
​16:30 17:15 Are Eastern Boundary Upwelling warming or cooling and what are their future Mathieu Rouault
​17:15 18:30 Students feedback on the summer school
your Guide will collect you from UCT at 08h30 and you will embark on the Cape Peninsula Tour to the picturesque harbour village of Hout Bay. Visit Mariner's Wharf and enjoy an optional trip to Seal Island (this is for own account as it’s weather dependant) and then continue to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve via the famous Chapman’s Peak Drive. Walk up to the top of Cape Point for breathtaking coastal views. On your way back towards Cape Town enjoy a lunch just outside Simon’s Town (for own account) After lunch visit the Penguin Colony at Boulders. Your Guide will have you back at UCT by late afternoon, 17h00.
Pick up: 7:45 All Africa House back Parking leaving 08h00am sharp transfer to the V&A Waterfront Clock Tower
09h00: Leaving by boat to Robben Island Tour V&A Waterfront Clock Tower
13h00: Transfer back to UCT or let loose in Cape Town
21:00 The Dragon Room
84 Harrington Street, Cape Town, Western Cape
21:00 The Dragon Room
84 Harrington Street, Cape Town, Western Cape