The Jennifer Ward-Oppenheimer Research Grant has announced its shortlist of top five researchers for this year.
To date, it has awarded $600 000 to researchers across Africa.
The grant, awarding $150 000 a year, is an initiative that supports early-career African researchers focused on innovative research that will contribute to advancing and addressing relevant, real-world, environmental African issues of current and future importance.
Dr Lova Marline from Madagascar has been shortlisted for the award for her proposal: Bioindicators of biodiversity, air quality and climate change: leveraging non-charismatic groups, bryophytes and lichens, in the tropical Afro-Malagasy region.
Dr Mohamed Henriques from Portugal has been shortlisted for his research proposal: Migrant shorebirds as sentinels of local ecological changes in key African wetlands and globally.
Dr Matthew Burnett from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, has been shortlisted for his research proposal: Fishers, fish and fish-eating waterbirds – interactions that can meet the sustainability goals for floodplains.
Dr Shannon Conradie from Cape Town, South Africa, has been shortlisted for her research proposal: Linking physics and biology to inform wildlife conservation under global change: an interdisciplinary approach.
Dr Yolandi Schoeman from Pretoria, South Africa, has been shortlisted for her research proposal: BioCredits: Regenerating Africa’s Landscape bio-intelligently.
