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• 2025 is ISAM's (Iziko) bicentenial year with lots of programs starting up on 18 May (International Museum Day) with a big launch on 11 June their "establishment day" • We will be running another GIFT teacher workshop this year on 16-17 August • Topic will be the Water Cycle • Starting a new

I intend to report on my 9th annual overnight GeoTrip for Friends of Iziko Museum to Robben Island (26-27 July) after the event.  Weather forecast may cause its fourth postponement, however.   In the meantime, all I wish to report is that I recently received a copy of Professor Richard Dingle’s 2024

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Update from Cam: 1. The appointment of 4 students is in progress. the students start work in February 2024.  They will be assisting in the creation of databases that will be linked to the app, specifically on the interactive geology layer.  We hope to complete the million map layer by May with the

The Geoheritage group quarterly meeting was held on 19 September, the first since the WCB AGM and it was great to have good representation from those individuals that indicated interest in participating in the Geoheritage Group activities. The meeting covered a short history of the group, some of th

Over the last few years, Field Museum Research Scientist Pia Viglietti (a South African national) and MacArthur Curator of Paleomammalogy Ken Angielczyk have been building research exchange opportunities with the help of collaborators at South African-based institutions. Recently, the Bill Stanley A

The original plaque pictured (left) was removed along with the plinth during the upgrade of the recent road works along the route between Motagu and Ashton. The task to replace the plaque has been resurrected and John Rogers and I have undertaken to get this done. Progress thus far is that we have

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Our team at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has been actively engaged in the development of virtual geological tours (VTs) featuring key outcrops of the Cape Granite Suite, Cape Supergroup, and Karoo Supergroup. The primary objectives of this initiative are threefold: to create comprehensi

Update from Cam (Cameron.Penn-Clarke@wits.ac.za) To date we have logged 514 individual SACS stratotypes from the SACS Lithostatigraphic Series (complete) and SACS Handbook 8 (Nambian and Phanerozoic erathems), complete with GPS co-ordinates and associated locality information.  Our plan is to link

The Friends of Iziko Museum have asked me to lead a GeoHike along the Promenade later this year, after my annual overnight trip for them to Robben Island, set for 5th and 6th April this year.   A few weeks ago I spoke on The Geology the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station to retirees of the Blaauwberg Uni

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During the weekend of 26-27 August, the Iziko South African Museum hosted the annual GIFT (Geoscience Information for Teachers) Workshop - a program sponsored by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The program focused on the topic of the origin of water on Earth - "Water in Space and Time" - and

West Coast Fossil Park Update – Pippa Haarhoff and Patricia Groenewald Hayley Cawthra is doing research at the West Coast Fossil Park, she can perhaps also give an update at the next meeting. Deano Stynder is using the Fossil Park as a base for the annual UCT Archaeology 3rd year field school, to be

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Education and outreach activities through Puppet Planet NPC in August-October 2024: 1. GIFT Workshop with 55 teachers, Exploring Antarctica, weekend of 10-11 August at the Iziko Museum and Two Oceans Aquarium 2. International Astronomical Union General Assembly meeting sponsored childrens puppetry p

The Umvoto Foundation (TUF) is currently developing a series of self-guided geotrails, with a particular focus on water resources and hydrogeoheritage: - Table Mountain dams geotrail, which was completed in 2021 and available to download for free (https://theumvotofoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/

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Dr. Matthew Huber will talk about: Join Dr. Matthew S. Huber, Lecturer in Applied Geology at UWC, on a fact-filled exploration of the amazing Vredefort impact basin in the Free State, South Africa. Matthew will detail how the Vredefort catastrophe is still impacting us today. Also about the rel

See this article contributed by John Rogers which covers a few of the activities led by John over the past few weeks.

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