![]() The SEAmester VI expedition encompassed a group of forty-three postgraduate students from various Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the country (both inland and along the coast), including, two high school learners from the Northwest School, and two junior scientists from Anchor Environmental Consultants, as part of expending its network and reach. ![]() The expedition involves running a transect across the core of the Agulhas Current off Port St Johns. Agulhas II voyaged from East Pier, Cape Town on 20 June 2023 to the Agulhas Current, off East London, and docked back in Cape Town on 29 June 2023. Students taking photos and soaking in the views as they bid farewell to Cape Town en route to the expedition. Since ASCA provides a large, international programme performing ground-breaking science, and is also being used as a training platform for students, interns and junior staff, teaming SEAmester with ASCA makes an excellent match, one that has worked successfully for all SEAmester expeditions to date. ASCA is a multi-institutional, international collaboration, whose objectives are to determine how the Agulhas Current and its role in the global conveyor belt varies over time by providing the first long-term observations of Agulhas Current volume, heat and salt transport and its variability through seasonal to interannual timescales. SEAmester was undertaken in collaboration with ASCA, a science project spearheaded by DSI and the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Egagasini Node. The strength of SEAmester is that postgraduate students combine theoretical classroom learning with the application of this knowledge through ship-based and hands-on research. ![]() SEAmester introduces marine science as an applied and cross-disciplinary field to students. SEAmester is a programme initiated to meet the Department of Science and Innovation ( DSI) objectives of creating platforms to “attract young researchers to the region and retain them by exciting their interest in aspects of global change”. ![]() Isabelle Ansorge, head of the Department for Oceanography at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and initiator of the programme and coordinated by Tahlia Henry. Forty-seven science students from institutions across the country made it through the programme and participated in the SEAmester ten-day at-sea practical training course aboard the flagship South African research vessel, S.A. June 2023 saw the success of the 6th SEAmester expedition, a programme aimed at accelerating marine science as an applied and cross-disciplinary field to postgraduate students all over South Africa. SEAmester – South Africa’s Class Afloat in association with the Agulhas System Climate Array (ASCA). ![]()
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