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• ASCLME and SAIAB celebrate World Oceans Day

  The ASCLME Project and the Project Coordination Unit's host organisation, SAIAB, celebrated World Oceans Day today by showing the film Rivers of Life, Oceans of Plenty today. The film opens by showcasing some of the spectacular undersea wildlife and land...

• Current Affairs

  The ASCLME Project has combined forces with sister project SWIOFP, to bring you a combined newsletter, Current Affairs. The first edition has just been published and covers news about both Projects over the last year. At 56 pages, it shows just how much w...

• ASCLME Phone Line Problem

  Update: The Phone lines have been fixed and are working as normal. Please note that the ASCLME Office telephone and fax numbers have been inadvertently disconnected by the phone company. We are working with Telkom in the meantime to restore our connec...

• Call for Expression of Interest - SWIOFP Observer Training Course

  The advert for the above mentioned Expression of Interest can be seen at the following Website: http://www.worldfishing.net/ (World Fishing magazine). The Call requests suitably qualified organisations to submit proposals for the preparation of a course...

• 2009 Seamounts Cruise Underway

  The IUCN Seamounts Project is currently underway, having set sail from Réunion on the 12th of November. The GEF-funded Seamounts Project enables the ASCLME Project to extend its knowledge of the ASCLME region to the south, as far as the Subtropical Conv...

• ASCLME News Update

  For the 5th Biennial GEF International Waters Conference being held in Cairns, Australia, 26-29 October 2009, we have produced a special "Update" edition of our newsletter, ASCLME News, covering some of the progress the ASCLME Project has made since the p...

• ASCLME Principal Scientific Advisor Honoured

  The ASCLME Project's Principal Scientific Advisor, Prof. Johann Lutjeharms, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate (honoris causa) by the University of Johannesburg. Professor Lutjeharms has spent a lifetime studying the oceanography of the region, and is...

• ASCLME Newsletter Published

  The ASCLME Project's first newsletter has been published. If you would like to download a copy, you can do so here. You can also get a copy of the ASCLME Project's promotional poster from here. ...

• Cruise Blog News

  If you have not seen the ASCLME FAO EAF-Nansen 2008 Cruise Blog, please consider having a look. We regularly post updates from aboard the ship and document not only the activities, successes and trials aboard the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, but also the occa...

• Trainees prepare for Nansen cruise

  In June and July, 10 young oceanographers from the national institutions, universities, fisheries and environment ministries of five African countries, participated in an intensive training course hosted and facilitated by the Marine Research Institute at...

• Research Cruise 2008

  The ASCLME Project is about to embark on its first exciting research cruise. ...