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VereR-G

@Vere_RG

PhD Freshwater Zoology. Freshwater consultant working at GroundTruth. Passionate about freshwater ecology and especially freshwater insects.

 Hilton, South Africa
groundtruth.co.za
Joined July 2018
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It was an excellent opportunity to meet new delegates from #Madagascar who are keen to work with participants from the region who attended the GBIF #AFRESH_IO workshop. #ISSEDD & #UniversityofTana students.
VereR-G (@Vere_RG) profile pictureVereR-G@Vere_RG11 Oct 2018
Just facilitated a training workshop with 27 delegates from 13 SADC countries on water river status monitoring and communication with #GroundTruthKZN & Jim Taylor. Thanks to all involved especially WaterNet & GIZ. Delegates used citizen science tools as part of World Rivers Day!
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Just facilitated a training workshop with 27 delegates from 13 SADC countries on water river status monitoring and communication with #GroundTruthKZN & Jim Taylor. Thanks to all involved especially WaterNet & GIZ. Delegates used citizen science tools as part of World Rivers Day!
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FWWG is represented in a training course in biological monitoring using freshwater macro-invertebrates which is currently under way at the #Albany Museum, with #GroundTruth and delegates from across South African and Lesotho.
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Unbelievable & exciting to receive the Water Resource Award 2018 of the Bode Foundation for our pioneering translational research on aquatic #biodiversity + #biomonitoring. Thanks team, friends & collaborators for excellent work! Let’s move on #DNAquaNet leeselabblog.de/en/2018/07/w…
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New call for proposals from @NSF_GEO to support research coordination networks in the field of critical zone science (including hydrology and geochemistry). Submit by Nov. 1 nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18090/n…
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1. If you want to know more about our global collaboration go visit our website allianceforfreshwaterlife.or… 2. You can also have a look at our paper in Aquatic Conservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… 3. Get engaged! allianceforfreshwaterlife.or… 4. Please spread the word & RT!
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Moving Adam's collection of butterflies yesterday @NatSciNMS with @AshWhiffin, was a real treat to see some of these beautiful specimens! #papilionidae #teinopalpus #swallowtail
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Dr Evgeny Zakharov introduces the International Barcode of Life in Cape St Francis. So glad i am here! #FBIPforum2018
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South Africa to consider banning microbeads after high levels of contamination found in Gauteng water: report businesstech.co.za/news/busi… via @businesstechSA
South Africa to consider banning microbeads after high levels of contamination found in Gauteng...

South Africa to consider banning microbeads after high levels of contamination found in Gauteng...

The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has announced that it will consider banning microbeads in the country - the tiny plastic beads used in cosmetics, toothpaste and sandblasting.

businesstech.co.za
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Fantastic and thanks to all!
Lyndall Pereira (@LyndallPereira) profile pictureLyndall Pereira@LyndallPereira28 Jul 2018
The workshop ended with some inspiring talks with great project ideas from the #ISSEDD and #UniversityofTana students. A great group of people at this meeting! We hope to be back in #Madagascar again soon! @GroundTruthKZN @BOKUvienna #CMZL #Toamasina @NatSciNMS @NHM_Science
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This is a lifer!
Lyndall Pereira (@LyndallPereira) profile pictureLyndall Pereira@LyndallPereira28 Jul 2018
Largest and most stunning mayfly in the world, #Proboscidoplocia from #Madagascar. An amazing find! @NatSciNMS @NHM_Science @ento_ben @Vere_RG @ManjaryAndria
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Fantastic to see Gondwanan fauna represented in Madagascar! teapaw.org/ento_ben/status/101963…
Ben Price (@ento_ben) profile pictureBen Price@ento_ben18 Jul 2018
Cool #caddisfly in the family Petrothrincidae from todays @GBIF funded "Forgotten African Islands" #AFRESH_IO fieldwork in #Madagascar
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So excited about where this GBIF project as well as the excellent partnerships are going! teapaw.org/LyndallPereira/status/…
Lyndall Pereira (@LyndallPereira) profile pictureLyndall Pereira@LyndallPereira18 Jul 2018
An excellent set of talks yesterday at #AFRESH_IO #Madagascar by Andry #madgbif, Kathy Young #reefconservation #Mauritius, Mayfly Man Michel Sartori #CMZL in Lausanne and Caddifly Man Wolfram Graf @BOKUvienna @ento_ben
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Awesome teapaw.org/LyndallPereira/status/…
Lyndall Pereira (@LyndallPereira) profile pictureLyndall Pereira@LyndallPereira18 Jul 2018
More excellent talks at #AFRESH_IO on diatoms by Jonathon Taylor @theNWU and the very 1st Indian Ocean Islands dataset published through Freshwater Information Platform (#FIP) @freshwaterdata @freshwaterblog @freshwater by @schmidtkloiber. @Vere_RG @GroundTruthKZN
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Science in action at #AFRESH_IO! A great talk from Dr Wolfram Graf and just a fantastic group of scientists and students thanks to the Madagascar Biodiversity Centre for hosting us and Dr Miasa Eustache #ISSEDD, #Toamasina @ento_ben @GroundTruthKZN
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