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Jennifer Ward-Oppenheimer Research Grant shortlist announced

Dr Lova Marline from Madagascar

Dr Matthew Burnett from Pietermaritzburg

Dr Mohamed Henriques from Portugal

Dr Shannon Conradie from Cape Town

Dr Yolandi Schoeman from Pretoria

25th August 2023

By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Senior Contributing Editor Online

     

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The Jennifer Ward-Oppenheimer Research Grant has announced its shortlist of top five researchers for this year.

To date, it has awarded $600 000 to researchers across Africa.

The grant, awarding $150 000 a year, is an initiative that looks to support early-career African researchers focused on innovative research that will contribute to the advancement, and addressing, of relevant, real-world, environmental African issues of current and future importance.

Dr Lova Marline from Madagascar has been shortlisted for the award for her proposal: Bioindicators of biodiversity, air quality and climate change: leveraging non-charismatic groups, bryophytes and lichens, in the tropical Afro-Malagasy region.

Dr Matthew Burnett from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, has been shortlisted for his research proposal: Fishers, fish and fish-eating waterbirds – interactions that can meet the sustainability goals for floodplains.

Dr Mohamed Henriques from Portugal has been shortlisted for his research proposal: Migrant shorebirds as sentinels of local ecological changes in key African wetlands and globally.

Dr Shannon Conradie from Cape Town, South Africa, has been shortlisted for her research proposal: Linking physics and biology to inform wildlife conservation under global change: an interdisciplinary approach.

Dr Yolandi Schoeman from Pretoria, South Africa, has been shortlisted for her research proposal: BioCredits: Regenerating Africa’s Landscape bio-intelligently.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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