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Professor Michael Roberts
Bilateral Research Chair: Ocean Science & Food SecurityNelson Mandela University | University of Southampton (UK) | UBO-IRD (France)
Growing Research Capacity in AfricaUsing the Innovation Bridge – Regional Hub Approach
Ocean Science & marine Food Security
Based at Ocean Science Campus
Ocean Production
Ocean Physics
Training Capacity: 50 Post Graduate students
Regional Foot print
Focus: Developmental Challenges: Poverty and Food Security (SDGs 1,2)
Worst situation is in Africa!
WIO
Chair focuses on the highest density of Lowest Developed Countries in the IO — a region where 60 M people are directly dependent on the ocean for their food and livelihoods.
9 DAC listed countries
Villagers awaiting the return of their fishers
Focus: Developmental Challenges: Poverty and Food Security (SDGs 1,2)
June- October (SW Monsoon) December-April (NE Monsoon)
ChlorophyllChlorophyll
Wide variety of upwelling systems in the WIO
Regional Oceanography and ecosystems are complex!
Regional Oceanography and ecosystems are complex!
Global distribution surface chlorophyll
June- October (SW Monsoon) December-April (NE Monsoon)
ChlorophyllChlorophyll
Oceanography and ecosystems are complex!
C
C
B
B
ChlorophyllNutrients (NO4)Temperature
Turbulence-driven ecosystem
A changing Indian Ocean | An impending humanitarian disaster?
Project Structure
The varying upwelling systems in the WIO can be grouped into 9 systems —referred to as regional "upwelling" projects (RUPs)
1. Agulhas Current driven upwelling2. Upwelling in the Mozambique Channel3. Madagascar Ridge and seamounts upwelling4. Southeast Madagascar shelf and (SICC) chlorophyll bloom5. Upwelling in the East African Coastal Current (EACC) and influence of major
islands (Mafia, Zanzibar, Pemba)6. Upwelling Somalia Current system7. Oman/Arabian Sea upwelling system8. Chagos-Seychelles upwelling dome (SCTR) and Chagos Ridge9. Mascarene Plateau induced upwelling
RUPs
Research Plan
Focus: Fisheries-Socio-Economic-Science to
Governance+
Research projects
Innovation Bridge – Regional Hub approach
U.K. Foot print
Regional Foot printFocus: Ecosystem Functioning
Partnership
The IB-RH components1
Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI)
Regional links to infrastructure and resources
2
Partnerships
+
Regional Hub2
French Foot print
Pipeline Core Technologies: Robotics, Earth Observations, Models
Alliance: Ships
1 m
Innovation Bridge + Regional Hub approach
France DAFF Kenya
Project Structure
The varying upwelling systems in the WIO can be grouped into 9 systems —referred to as regional "upwelling" projects (RUPs)
1. Agulhas Current driven upwelling2. Upwelling in the Mozambique Channel3. Madagascar Ridge and seamounts upwelling4. Southeast Madagascar shelf and (SICC) chlorophyll bloom5. Upwelling in the East African Coastal Current (EACC) and influence of major
islands (Mafia, Zanzibar, Pemba)6. Upwelling Somalia Current system7. Oman/Arabian Sea upwelling system8. Chagos-Seychelles upwelling dome (SCTR) and Chagos Ridge9. Mascarene Plateau induced upwelling
RUPs
Research Plan Progress
Norway – a natural partner!
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