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OTN South Africa to Be Launched
| Her Excellency Ms. Adèle Dion, High Commissioner of Canada in South Africa, will host a Science and Technology briefing to mark the launch of OTN South Africa at the Canadian High Commission in Pretoria on August 2, 2011. Dr. Frederick Whoriskey, Research Scientist and Executive Director of OTN, and Dr. Paul Cowley, Principal Scientist at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) and Chairman of the South African Biotelemetry Research Group, will present the project during the breakfast launch. |  Paul Cowley, Principal Scientist at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, will lead OTN South Africa |
| Members of the marine science community in southern Africa, representatives from international development agencies, science personnel from the the Canadian High Commission and from embassies of neighboring countries, representatives from marine technology firms, and representatives from television, print, and electronic media have all been invited to attend. | |
Trade Commissioners from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade have worked closely with OTN and SAIAB to set up the briefing. | |
OTN has partnered with the SAIAB and signed a Collaboration Agreement that tasks SAIAB with facilitating this project in South African waters. Led by Dr. Paul Cowley, the SAIAB will be responsible for deploying and servicing OTN receivers and providing administrative and data management services. Deployments are scheduled to begin later this summer starting in Mossel Bay and Algoa Bay off the southern coast of South Africa. Tagged animals expected to interact with OTN South African arrays include a range of fish species such as white sharks, raggedtooth sharks, dusky kob, leervis (garrick), and white steenbras as well as other marine animals like turtles. | |
View Invitation (pdf).
Read more about the SAIAB on their website.
Story by Susan Dufault, OTN Headquarters