Friday 7 November 2014
Introduction to SA-YSSP Projects
Mabaleng Auditorium
Fri,7 Nov / INTRODUCTION TO PROJECTS
Each young scientist has the opportunity to make a 3-slide presentation on their project along with their supervisors. / THEMES
09:00 / Introduction and welcoming comments
Prof Andre Roodt and Dr Ulf Dieckmann / Mabaleng Auditorium
09:30 / Mr Emmanuel Vellemu, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, South Africa / Understanding acid mine drainage (AMD), salinity, catchment system
09:40 / Ms Maria Rivera, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, USA / Discovering the opportunity costs of competing land uses in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo
09:50 / Mr Elvis Nkoana, Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development, University of Antwerp, Belgium / Climate change adaptation and sustainable development: An action research approach in Limpopo Province, South Africa
10:00 / MrTejasRawal, Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology,Roorkee, Uttrakhand State, India / Planning for sustainable transportation system in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India
10:10 / Mr Serge Kubanza, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa / Urban environmental problems: Social and environmental injustice in solid waste management in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo
10:20 / Ms Carmen Klausbruckner, Faculty of Law, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria / Southern Africa's energy policies including the legal framework in the field of local and regional air quality
10:30 / Mr Lucas Henneman, Department of Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA / Impacts of emission changes on air quality and acute health effects in the Southeast
10:40 / TEA
11:00 / Mr Leonard Azimoh, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Malardalen University, Sweden / Off-Grid Energy: An assessment of the sustainability and development impact of South African rural electrification
11:10 / MrShingiriraiMutanga, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa / Modelling an effective energy mix for developing economics using spatial system dynamics: The case of Biofuels in the SADC Region
11:20 / Ms Aleksandra Falkiewics, Faculty of Technical Physics, Informatics, Applied Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland / Asymptotic behavior of dynamical systems on complex networks
11:30 / MrsAnetteAllemann, Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa / Mabaleng Auditorium
Mabaleng Auditorium / The effect of herbicide formulations and soybean genotype on the relationship between beneficial organisms and root pathogens
11:40 / Mr Michael-Yu Chung, Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa / The influence of sorghum root physiology on rhizosphere interactions and their effect on incidence of root disease
11:50 / MsMarceleVermeulen, Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa / Biotic and abiotic interactions of above and below ground parts of an allelopathic plant, using Amaranthuscruentus as a model
12:00 / LUNCH
12:50 / MsLinlin Xia, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, China / City ecological design: based on the spatial distribution of carbon metabolism network
13:00 / Mr Arnab Banerjee, Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, India / Variation in Certain physico-chemical factors and plant on dynamics of a reservoir: A modelling approach
13:10 / Mr Alan de Barros, Applied Ecology-Conservation Biology, Forestry Department, University of Sao Paulo-USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Using probabilistic models derived from jaguar movements to enhance conservation of endangered populations in the Atlantic Forest
13:20 / Mr Emmanuel Sweke, Marine Bio-resource and Environmental Science/Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, Japan / Social-ecological studies to sustain local fisheries in North-Eastern Hokkaido, Japan
13:30 / MrAloisKatiti, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Fort Hare, South Africa / Satellite-based estimation of evapotranspiration in the Green Scheme Irrigation (Projects) of Namibia
13:40 / Ms Shelly Borga, Department of Energy & Environment, TERI University, India / India water-energy-material nexus: physical, economic and policy implications
13:50 / MrMayank Prakash, Department of Population Policies and Programmes, International Institute for Population Science, Mumbai, India / A study of water-sanitation-hygiene, related morbidity and its Socio-economic Impact on the Slum Dwellers of Mumbai
14:00 / Ms Portia Mokoena, Department of Earth Science, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa / Structural control of groundwater flow regimes and groundwater geochemistry in the Bredasdorp region of western cape province
14:10 / Mr Martin Flatoe, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway / Female-headed households, land ownership, and vulnerability to climate change in South Africa
14:20 / MrsMoiponeLetsie, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa / Vulnerability to climate change and variability on crop yields and implications on household welfare in Lesotho
14:30 / Closing comments: Dr Ulf Dieckmann
15:00 / TEA