Subject Area
Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Activities
Research assistant involves accompanying
various PhD and MSc students on their field work and assisting with lab work
o Sorting, counting and identifing mussel
larva under a stereo microscope
o Sandy
beach work sifting through sand and collecting macro-organisms
o
Collection of mangrove crabs in the Transkei
o Collection of plankton samples
and fish larval samples
o Collection of sandhoppers along the west coast of South Africa
o Collection of mussels along the west, south and east coast of South Africa.
Assisting in the processing their condition index
o Looking at mussel recruitment and barnacle
recruitment using scouring pads on the rocky shore
o
Deployed robo-mussels and robo-limpets
o Notching of mussel shells looking at growth rates
Sea regions of study
South Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Skills
PADI Divemaster
Computer literate
Proficiency in Microsoft Office
Knowledge of statistical software programme Primer
and Permanova
Basic usage of statistical programme R
