Research Projects
Research Projects
ORI researchers head to Madagascar for Project Suitcase
While visiting south-east Madagascar in 2008 following research in the Mozambique channel, the Oceanographic Research Institute’s (ORI) Dr Sean Fennessy was struck by how similar the coastal environment appeared to the coast of KwaZulu-Natal.
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ORI records third marlin recapture in 30 years
After nearly 30 years of recording more than 1 420 tagged and released marlin, the Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI) only recently logged its third marlin recapture during that time.
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The Suitcase Project: Eddies as Potential Vectors of Connectivity between Madagascar and South Africa
Mesoscale eddies are prominent at the ends of the western boundary currents (WBC). The Agulhas is the only WBC that has frequent mesoscale eddy activity in its source region
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Coast to Canyon: Understanding Cross-Shelf Ecosystem Functioning in the KZN Bight, by linking Geological, Biological and Physical Processes
Oceanic surface waters off the African east coast are traditionally characterised as oligotrophic, emphasising the importance of localised fluvial and upwelling processes in driving
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Forecasting Biological and Human Consequences of Climate Change on South East African Coral Reefs and Associated Sediments from the Palaeoclimate Record
Ancient calcifying marine organisms have survived past climate change and provide a geological record of this history.
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