One liner: Presentation of an updated and innovative community based, low technology approach to river health testing.
Dr Mark Graham, a consultant based in KwaZulu Natal will be presenting on an updated and innovative community based, low technology approach to river health testing. Mark has worked closely with the River Health Programme, other professional aquatic ecologists and environmental NGOs (e.g. WESSA) for many years and based on these collaborative efforts derived a simplified version of the standard river health testing scheme with a view being able to roll this out to a wider group of users, including school children, in an effort to generate river health data for large areas. Mark will talk through some river health issues, with a particular focus on urban systems, and then give an overview of his testing scheme and its potential in the urban context.
Mark is principally an aquatic ecologist having provided specialist inputs on water quality and aquatic ecosystems to a number of projects throughout Africa. He has worked for local water authorities, municipalities, mining houses, consultants, Water Affairs, the Water Research Commission, and numerous others. The development of these community based river health monitoring tools are as a result of his personal and professional interests in sustainable aquatic ecosystem and resource management.
Speaker: Dr Mark Graham
Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Time: 3pm
Venue: Davies Reading Room, 2.27 Environmental and Geographical Science Building,
Upper Campus, UCT
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