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Friday, 22 September 2006 |
A small contingent of ACEP staff are about to depart Grahamstown to take part in INSITE, a biannual science and technology exhibition, this year taking place in the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. If you are in Gauteng and would like to learn more about the programme face to face, please stop by our stand, #99 in Hall 1 of the convention centre.
We hope to see you there!
We have prepared a specific page for INSITE-related information, https://www.acep.co.za/INSITE/.
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Tuesday, 29 August 2006 |
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August 2006 was declared Bioscience month. This is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and is implemented by the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) and aims to highlight the importance of the biological sciences, especially those focussing on the marine environment, and the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP). ACEP is a flagship programme within the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity and is based in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. |
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ACEP to exhibit at INSITE 06 |
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
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ACEP (African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme) will have a stand at the INSITE 06 exhibition, to be held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, 24-27th September. |
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August is Biosciences Month |
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), together with the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) have declared August Biosciences Month. This year, the theme is Exploring the Deep Blue.
ACEP, the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme, has been selected to play a pivotal role in this year's Biosciences Month, as it plays a key role in exploring the deep blue sea off South Africa's East Coast, and further afield.
ACEP is offering several activities for this years Biosciences Month. Perhaps the most exciting is the opportunity to take part in a leg of a research expedition aboard the research vessel FRS Algoa. Learners in Grades 10 and 11 who do Maths, Science and/or Biology are invited to submit an essay with the title "The Value of the Deep Ocean to Me and My Community". Winners will be invited to accompany us on this once-in-a-lifetime experience aboard the research vessel. For more information, click here.
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Coelacanths filmed in Indonesia - Update |
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Monday, 03 July 2006 |
In an update to our earlier story on Indonesian coelacanths, we have several pictures and more information.
In a co-operative expedition between the Aquamarine Fukushima aquarium in Japan, which recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ACEP, the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (LIPI) and Sam Ratulangi University, five individual coelacanths were filmed in several caves off the coast of Sulawesi near the town of Buol using an ROV.
During a previous expedition in 1999, the German submersible Jago, which has been used extensively in the study of African coelacanths, filmed two coelacanths in the vicinity of this latest study. Indonesian coelacanths have not been seen in the wild around Manado, several hundred kilometers to the northeast, despite intensive searches. Although rare catches, some of the Indonesian fishermen around Manado are familiar with coelacanths, and call them rajah laut - "king of the sea".
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Coelacanths filmed in Indonesia |
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
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Yoshitaka Abe, Executive Director of the Aquamarine
Fukushima in Japan, who
are currently conducting an ROV survey along the coast of Sulawesi has informed us of a coelacanth sighting on the morning of the 30th of May 2006 at
8:30am. The fish was found offshore at 170m in water of 17 degrees celcius near
to the town of Buol on Sulawesi in Indonesia. |
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