• Curnell Campher: Geological moddeling of the offshore Orange basin, West Coast of South Africa
• Mojalefa Moeketsi: Comparison of ionospheric TEC derived from collocated GNSS receivers over HartRAO during solar X-ray flares
• Marisa Nickola: Geodetic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) at Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO)
• Warren Kretzinger: A Volcanic surprise on the Mozambique ridge
• Selwyn Adams: Modelling basin evolution and assessing source rock potential within the Orange basin offshore South Africa
• Stoffel Fourie: A Proposed Space Geodesy Observatory Near Matjiesfontein: A Geotechnical Site Investigation
• Stoffel Fourie: The Geo Research and Science Awareness train (flyer)

• Prof. Maarten de Wit (AEON): Opening, Welcome and pre-program Briefing
• Ms Anati Canca (DST): DST's 10 year strategy
• Prof. Maarten de Wit (AEON) and Prof. Brian Horsfield (GFZ): Inkaba Past and Future: Where we have been and where we are goung
• Prof. Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO): Heart of Africa
• Dr Robert Trumbull (GFZ): Margins of Africa
• Dr John Compton (UCT): Living Africa
• Nicole Parsiegla (AWI): Crustal structures and geodynamic processes along the southern margin of Africa
• Jacek Stankiewicz (GFZ):  The Wide Angle Seismic Experiment in the Southern Cape
• Ansa Lindeque (UCT): The Agulhas-Karoo Geoscience transect seismic reflection profile: Revealing secrets under the Southern Karoo Basin of South Africa
• Katja Hirsch (GFZ): A subsidence analysis of the Orange Basin offshore Southwest Africa
• Catherine Curtis (UCT): Low-K magmas from the Cretaceous Koegel Fontein Complex, and their geological significance
• Xin Li: Sediment Transport Modelling on the Gateway south of South Africa based on the Agulhas Drift
• Philip Schluter (AWI): Reconstruction of deep and bottom currents south of South Africa by the analysis of the sedimentary Transkei Basin infill
• Warren Kretzinger (UKZN): A volcanic surprise on the Mozambique ridge
• Iris Kristen (GFZ): Tracing environmental changes in Lake Tswaing (South Africa) using bulk and compound specific stable carbon isotopes
• Dr Johanna Lippmann-Pipke (GFZ): Striking correlation between geogas data and mining induced seismicity in the world’s deepest gas lab, TauTona Gold Mine, SA
• Roelf Botha (HartRAO):  Conceptual Design of the Optical Subsystem of the proposed Lunar Laser Ranger
• Joel Ondego Botai (HartRAO):  Analysis of dependency between Geodetic Parameters
• Dr Attie Combrink (HartRAO):  On the importance of proper noise modelling for long-term precipitable water vapour trend estimations

Workshop 6 : Swaziland, 14 - 18 September 2009

Only abstracts are listed here. Please browse to the Member Area for the presentations and posters

• Adekola, Solomon (UWC): Sequence Stratigraphic and Diagenetic alterations within the Silisiclatic Reservoir Deposits of Orange Basin
• Andreoli, Marco (NECSA): History of stress at Vaalputs, Namaqualand, South Africa: evidence for a Mid-Cretaceous Wegener-type Orogeny in western southern Africa
• Arnold, Andy (UWC): Source Rock Potential, Palaeoenvironment & Thermal Maturity of the Karoo Basin, South Africa: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration
• Backeberg, Nils (UCT): The Petrogenesis of the False Bay Dyke swarm
• Booth, Peter (NMMU): Keynote: A review of the structural geology of the Cape Fold Belt and challenges towards future research
• Botai, Christina (HartRAO): Investigating the variability of Earth gravity field's J2 spherical harmonic coefficient using satellite Laser Ranging Data
• Botai, Joel (HartRAO): Analysis of the degree of synchronisation between geophysical records using the method of instantaneous phase differences
• Botha, Roelf (HartRAO): Update on Laser Development for Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) in South Africa
• Boyd, Donna (UCT): Distribution and origin of natural gas leakage features on Block 2 of the Orange Basin as interpreted from 2D seismic reflection data
• Brunsdon, Gideon (NMMU): Faulting of the Witteberg Group Rocks, Steytlerville, Eastern Cape
• Combrinck, Ludwig (HartRAO): Determination of Earth gravity field spherical harmonic coefficients using SLR data
• Cotterill, Fenton (UCT): Quantifying the shared history of species and landforms to decipher late Cenozoic coevolution of landscape and biodiversity across the Kalahari Plateau
• Curtis, Catherine (UCT): O- and H-isotope study of the Cretaceous Koegel Fontein Complex (presented by Robert Trumbull)
• Decker, John (UCT): Denudation rates for Karoo dolerites in southern Africa determined with cosmogenic noble gas nuclides
• Di Primio , Ronaldo (GFZ): Methane on the Move: quantifying natural greenhouse gas emissions over geological time in the Orange Basin, SA
• Domoney, Reggie (UWC): Stress Paterns in the Cape Fold Belt
• Erwee, Mariette (UFS): An evaluation of the educational impact of the EarthWise teacher training project
• Ferreira, Janine (UWC): Source Rock Potential of the Lower Ecca Group, Tanqua Karoo Basin
• Flugel, Tyrel (UCT): Remote sensing reconnaissance of the Congo-Zambezi watershed: exploration of palaeo-hydrological patterns and structural controls on biogeography
• Fourie, Stoffel (TUT): Development of a proposed Geo-Science Train
• Goedhart, Marc (UWC): Early Holocene extensional tectonics in the south-eastern Cape Fold Belt, South Africa
• Hirsch, Katja (GFZ): A lithospheric and temperature study from the South Atlantic
• Horsfield, Brian (GFZ): Shale Gas: an unconventional hydrocarbon resource in South Africa? Some preliminary observations
• Kroner, Corinna (GFZ): Signals of mass redistribution observed at the South African Geodynamic Observatory Sutherland
• Kuenene, Bataung (UFS): Soil water saturation in the Cathedral Peak VI catchment, KwaZulu-Natal
• Lekgetho, Thelma (UFS): Investigation of the behaviour of platinum-group minerals and base metals sulphides during flotation of UG2 ore
• Lindeque, Ansa (UCT): Revealing the Beattie Magnetic Anomaly and the Anatomy of the crust of southernmost Africa
• Linol, Bastien (UCT): Kalahari borehole stratigraphy from the Tsodilo Hills area, NW Botswana: clues to understanding uplift and climate history of the Kalahari Plateau
• Lombard, Donovan (UWC): Reservoir characterization of wells KD1, KE1, KF1, KH1,in block 3, Orange Basin, offshore South Africa
• MacDonald, Nequita (UFS): Aspects of palaeo-terrace formation and stream sediment petrography of the Orange and Vaal River confluence in the Douglas area
• MacLennan, Scott (UCT): Magnetotelluric experiment across southern Baberton Greenstone Belt: a students' perspective of the field work
• Madala, Fulufhelo (UFS): The Nickel Deposit at Bon Accord, Barberton, South Africa
• Madyibi, Lihle (UCT): Three-dimensional modeling of petroleum generation in the southeast flank of the Bredasdorp Basin, off the south coast of SA
• Mielke, Christian (UCT): Large-Scale structural map of the Cape Fold Belt derived by remote sensing analysis
• Mikes, Daniel (SU): Maximum flooding surface; the ultimate correlator
• Moodley, Jason (NMMU): A Structural and Petrographical Study of the Peninsula Formation at Moregrove Quarry, PE
• Moore, Shaun (UCT): Large scale thrusting across the Kango Inlier, Cape Fold Belt, South Africa (student, presented by MJ deWit)
• Mowzer, Zainab (UWC): Assessing Source Rock Maturity within the Prince Albert and the Whitehill formations
• Mphatse, Cassius (UFS): Mineralogy of the Middle Group chromitite cumulates at the Tweefontein Chrome Mine section, Bushveld Complex
• Nape, Moses (UFS): The Proposed Use of Seasonal Forecasts to Improve Maize Production in the Free State
• Nformi, Emanuel (UWC): Sequence Stratigraphic Characterisation of Petroleum Reservoirs in Block 3013, Deep Water Orange Basin, SA
• Nickola, Marisa (HartRAO): Investigation of techniques to determine astronomical seeing conditions at Matjiesfontein
• Njome, Stephen (UCT) : The Mount Cameroon Volcano, West Africa: an active link between recent eruptives and mantle signatures of the deep past beneath the margins of Africa
• Nube, Andreas (GFZ): Magnetotelluric measurements across the southern Barberton greenstone belt: data analysis
• Olivier, Wernich (NMMU): A lithological and structural study of the Witteberg Group (Cape Supergroup) with focus on the Witpoort Formation near Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
• Ritter, Oliver from GFZ: Electrical conductivity of the Cape Fold Belt, South Africa
• Schalkwyk, Xavier (UWC): Chemostratigraphy of wells A-U1, A-F1, K-M1 and A-G1 in Block 3A used to facilitate reservoir-scale interwell correlations in the Orange Basin offshore South Africa
• Scharf, Taryn (NMMU): Folding and faulting in the Weltevrede Formation on Varsfontein, Steytlerville area
• Stankiewicz, Jacek (GFZ): An overview of geophysical experiments on the continental margins of Southern Africa
• Tredoux, Marian (UFS): The Platinum Value Chain
• Trumbull, Robert (GFZ): Active vs. passive rifting in the South Atlantic from a petrologic perspective: an upwelling controversy
• Van Eeden, Miles (UWC): Paleo-Stress orientation and brief sedimentology of the lower Ecca group, Karoo Basin, South Africa
• Watkeys, Mike (UKZN): Fresh geoscientific data from the Natal Basin and Mozambique Ridge
• Weckmann, Ute (GFZ): Overview and Preliminary results of a magnetotelluric experiment across the southern Barberton greenstone belt