Explore a diverse collection of publications showcasing the breadth and impact of marine and Antarctic research undertaken within UCT-MARiS (including the former Ma-Re Institute) and in collaboration with our national and international partners. Spanning from 2019 to the present, this repository features peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, policy reports, technical reports, books and book chapters, patents, and other research outputs. Together, these publications reflect our interdisciplinary contributions to advancing scientific knowledge, informing policy and governance, driving innovation, and supporting the sustainable management of marine, coastal, polar, and social-ecological systems.
Peer-reviewed publications
- Audh, R. R., Hambrock, M., Hall, B., Marquart, R., Omatuku Ngongo, E., Skatulla, S., MacHutchon, K., & Vichi, M. (2026). Operating procedures for on-deck sampling of sea-ice floes on research vessels. South African Environmental Observation Network. https://doi.org/10.15493/SAPRI.25022026
- Altieri, K.E., Smith, S., Fawcett, S.E., Spence, K.A.M., Mathuri, M.N., Granger, J. Nitrogen stable isotopes track ammonia emission sources and ammonium aerosol formation processes in the marine boundary layer. Geophysical Research Letters 10.1029/2025GL119557 (2026).
- Corman, J.R., Halvorson, H.M., Brucker, C., Costanza-Robinson, M.S., Edwards, J.H., Moody, E.K., Petersen, C., Angstman, B.J., Cai, Q., Collins, S.M., Ehlers, E., Farrell, W.R., Keon, J., Krist, A.C., Lewanski, A.L., Lin, S., Mohamed, A., Montano, N., Najev, B.L., Neill, E.D., Olson, C.R., Peebles, E.G., Porter, K., Rock, L.A., Roelofs, E., Schuele, S., Suchomel, A.D., Thomas, S., Toll, L., Tumolo, B.B., Wagner, C.E., Wang, B., Wess, E.N., Yilmaz, G., Atkinson, C.L., Bellinger, B.J., Brazner, J.S., Cabrerizo, M.J., Camilleri, A., Cremona, F., Descy, J.-P., Drobotov, A., Dudley, B.D., Feijoó, C., Fritz, K.A., Giling, D.P., Hanisch, J.R., Hossler, K., Kanduč, T., Karube, Z., Kattel, G.R., Knoll, L.B., Kohler, T.J., Kominoski, J.S., Kristensen, E., Lau, D.C.P., Lundquist, M.J., MacAvoy, S.E., Martyniuk, N., Mazzoni, R., Naddafi, R., Neres-Lima, V., North, R., Oliveira-Cunha, P., Ortega-Cisneros, K., Pastor, A., Paszkowski, C., Piola, R., Rachamim, T., Sakamaki, T., Sarnelle, O., Scharler, U.M., Scrimgeour, G., Shurin, J.B., Steiner, C.F., Theissen, K.M., Thompson, R., Tolomeev, A., Viana, I.G., Villanueva, V.D., Watson, A., Zadereev, E. and Zandonà, E. (2026), Limno-STOICH: A comprehensive database linking the elemental stoichiometry of organisms with inland aquatic habitats. Limnol. Oceanogr. Lett, 11: e70105. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.70105
- de Jager, W., Melsheimer, C., Spreen, G., & Vichi, M. (2026). Dynamic decomposition of sub-daily Antarctic sea-ice concentration change using passive microwave swath observations. Earth and Space Science, 13, e2025EA004687. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004687
Frieler K, Lange S, Schewe J, Mengel M, Treu S, Otto C, Volkholz J, Reyer CP, Heinicke S, Jones C, Blanchard JL. (2026). Scenario set-up and the new CMIP6-based climate-related forcings provided within the third round of the Inter-Sectoral Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3b, group I and II). Geoscientific Model Development, 19(10):4095-135.
Gammage LC, Jarre A. (2026). Insights from the southern Benguela into adapting social vulnerability indices for local understanding and regional comparability. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 83(1):fsaf236.
Mirkin J, Granger J, Flynn RF, West AG, Smith S, Mathuri MN, Altieri KE, Fawcett SE. (2026). Larsen C Ice Shelf in the western Weddell Sea is a hotspot for export production in the Antarctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 131(4):e2025JG009593.
Passerotti G, Alberello A, Vichi M, Bennetts LG, Bailey J, Toffoli A. (2026). Sea ice floe segmentation in close‐range optical imagery using active contour and foundation models. Earth and Space Science, 13(2):e2025EA004453.
Roberts, K. E., Rohr, T., Raven, M. R., Diamond, M. S., Visioni, D., Kravitz, B., et al. (2026). Potential impacts of climate interventions on marine ecosystems. Reviews of Geophysics, 64, e2024RG000876. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000876
Rocke E, Knight R, Ghisleni G, McAllister T, Ortmann A, Bruno A, Jimenez DJ, Xu J. (2026). Microbiomes for a Stable Planet: Embedding Microbial Processes in Global Climate Action. Green Carbon, (In Press).
Rodríguez-Fonseca B, Calvo-Miguélez E, Montoya-Carramolino L, Rodrigues RR, Polo I, Martín-Rey M, Losada T, López-Parages J, Gómara I, Rivas D, Fransner F. (2026). ENSO impacts on marine ecosystems and fisheries in the tropical and South Atlantic. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 7(1):43-59.
Rogerson J, Tagliabue A, Nguyen A, Vichi M, Wrightson L, Anugerahanti P, Aumont O, Gehlen M. (2026). Complexity in biogeochemical models: consequences for the biological carbon pump. Biogeosciences, 23(9):3179-94.
Ryu Y, Maloney AE, Luu VH, Guo L, Oleynik S, Fawcett SE, Higgins MB, Van Oostende N, Ward BB, Cook CC, Cohen NR. (2026). Prokaryotic bias in surface ocean particles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(14):e2500624123.
Ryu Y, Marconi D, Smart SM, Fawcett SE, Johnson R, Zhang R, Knapp AN, Oleynik S, Martínez-García A, Haug GH, Sigman DM. (2026). The isotopic composition of solid-phase extracted dissolved organic nitrogen in seawater. Marine Chemistry. 276:104646.
Smart SM, Fawcett SE, Stowell H, Pérez‐Huerta A. (2026). Changes in shell and crystal structure from life to sediments: An EBSD characterization of Subantarctic planktic foraminifera. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 27(3):e2025GC012330.
Espada-Pastor A, Vasconcelos J, Espinosa F, Carballo JL, Morfin JE, Sousa R, Pinto AR, Pfaff MC, Baliwe NG, Branch GM, Riera R. (2026). Global drivers of size variation in patellid limpets and their implications for marine protection and conservation outcomes. Global Ecology and Conservation, 68:e04222.
- Bornman, E., Shannon, L. and Jarre, A., 2025. Scoping an Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the southern Benguela: fisheries still biggest risk. ICES Journal of Marine Science, p.fsae018.
Carlson AJ, Siedlecki SA, Granger J, Veitch J, Pitcher GC, Fearon G, Soares F, Zhou M, Flynn RF, Fawcett SE. (2025). Seasonal source water changes and winds contribute to the development of hypoxia in St Helena Bay within the southern Benguela upwelling system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(4):e2024JC021702.
- Crawford, R. J., Sherley, R. B., Shannon, L. J., McInnes, A. M., Carpenter-Kling, T., & Makhado, A. B. (2025). High adult mortality of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus in South Africa after 2004 was likely caused by starvation. Ostrich, 96(4), 216-224.
De Bie J, Lee SB, Meynecke JO, Seyboth E, Samanta S, Vichi M, Roychoudhury A, Mackey B. (2025). Agent‐based modelling of southward coastal migration by humpback whale mother–calf pods off eastern Australia. Marine Mammal Science, 41(2):e13203
de Haast JA, Moloney CL, Buhl-Mortensen L, Karenyi N. (2025). Relationships between taxa assemblages and substratum types on cold-water coral reefs. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 313:109101.
de Jager W, Vichi M. (2025). Increased rotational coupling between Antarctic sea ice and the atmosphere over the last 30 Years. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(2):e2024JC021239.
- Eddy, T.D., Heneghan, R.F., Bryndum‐Buchholz, A., Fulton, E.A., Harrison, C.S., Tittensor, D.P., Lotze, H.K., Ortega‐Cisneros, K., Novaglio, C., Bianchi, D. and Büchner, M.,…Shannon, L.J….Blanchard, J.L. 2025. Global and regional marine ecosystem models reveal key uncertainties in climate change projections. Earth's Future, 13(3), p.e2024EF005537.
Faseyi C, Williams G, Scharler U, Savage C, Pillay D. (2025). Assessing the suitability of EcoQS indicators to signal intertidal recreation consequences in a coastal lagoon. Ecological Indicators, 181:114450.
Hassler CS, Simó R, Fawcett SE, Ellwood MJ, Jaccard SL. (2025). Marine biogenic humic substances control iron biogeochemistry across the Southern Ocean. Nature communications, 16(1):2662.
Lambertucci SA, Frantzeskaki N, Villasante S, Wickson F, Zinngrebe Y, Reyes-García V, Bennett E, O’Brien K, Calderón-Contreras R, Liao C, Garibaldi LA. (2025). Supporting researchers’ engagement in international science–policy bodies. Nature Sustainability, 8(9):982-985.
Mangatane MJ, Vichi M. (2025). Intercomparison of Antarctic sea-ice thickness estimates from satellite altimetry and assessment over the 2019 Data-Rich Year. Remote Sensing, 17(7):1180.
Manral D, Gómez‐Navarro L, Denes MC, Iovino D, Fogli PG, Masina S, Hernández‐Carrasco I, Amaral‐Zettler L, Vichi M, van Sebille E. (2025). Separation timescales of vertically migrating zooplankton and other (a) biotic materials in the Benguela system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(4):e2024JC021701.
Marquart R, Alberello A, Bogaers A, De Santi F, Vichi M. (2025). WIce-FOAM 1.0: coupled dynamic and thermodynamic modelling of heterogeneous sea ice and waves using OpenFOAM-v2306. Geoscientific Model Development, 18(24):10053-76.
Marshall TA, Harris E, Fawcett SE. (2025). Remineralisation signals in the western South Indian Ocean thermocline: diagnosing local biogeochemical processes from nutrient stoichiometry. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 224:105549.
Mashifane TB, Tagliabue A, Thomalla SJ. (2025). Trait–based Adjustments: Key to improving model representation of the bloom seasonal cycle in the Subantarctic Zone. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(23):e2025GL118997.
Maury, O., Tittensor, D. P., Eddy, T. D., Allison, E. H., Bahri, T., Barrier, N., et al. (2025). The Ocean System Pathways (OSPs): A new scenario and simulation framework to investigate the future of the world fisheries. Earth's Future, 13, e2024EF004851. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004851
Moloto TM, Smith ME, Bell TG, Piketh SJ, Thomalla SJ. (2025). Seasonal patterns and multidecadal trends in phytoplankton functional groups in the Benguela upwelling system off Namibia. Science of The Total Environment, 999:180217
Moos S, Vichi M, Fripiat F, Tison JL, De Wit A, Rampai T. (2025). Developing digital image processing methods to quantify internal and interfacial convection in the Hele-Shaw cell, with applications to the laboratory ice–ocean boundary layer. Journal of Glaciology, 71:e86.
Murphy, K., Fierro-Arcos, D., Rohr, T., Green, D., Novaglio, C., Baker, K., et al. (2025). Developing a southern ocean marine ecosystem model ensemble to assess climate risks and uncertainties. Earth's Future, 13, e2024EF004849. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004849
Nicholson SA, Ryan-Keogh TJ, Thomalla SJ, Chang N, Smith ME. (2025). Satellite-derived global-ocean phytoplankton phenology indices. Earth System Science Data, 17(5):1959-1975.
Ortega‐Cisneros K, Fierros‐Arcos D, Lindmark M, Novaglio C, Woodworth‐Jefcoats P, Eddy TD, Coll M, Fulton E, Oliveros‐Ramos R, Reum J, Shin YJ. 2025. An integrated global‐to‐regional scale workflow for simulating climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. Earth's Future, 13(2):e2024EF004826
Pereira, L.M., Archibald, S., Selomane, O. et al. Six principles to get natural climate solutions right in Africa. Nat Sustain 8, 1238–1241 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01652-3
Raphael MN, Clem KR, Adjou M, Adusumilli S, Amory C, Bahrami M, Baiman R, Banwell AF, Barreira S, Beadling RL, Colwell S. [et al.], Thomalla S. (2025). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(8):S357-S400.
- Rodríguez-Fonseca, Belén, Elena Calvo-Miguélez, Lucia Montoya-Carramolino, Regina R. Rodrigues, Irene Polo, Marta Martín-Rey, Teresa Losada et al. "ENSO impacts on marine ecosystems and fisheries in the tropical and South Atlantic." Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2025): 1-17.
- Rogerson, J., Veitch, J., Siedlecki, S., Fawcett, S.E. Frontal features and mixing regimes along the shelf region of the Southern Benguela Upwelling System. Continental Shelf Research, 10.1016/j.csr.2025.105560 (2025).
Ryan-Keogh TJ, Tagliabue A, Thomalla SJ. (2025). Global decline in net primary production underestimated by climate models. Communications earth & environment, 6(1):75.
Rynne, N., Novaglio, C., Blanchard, J., Bianchi, D., Christensen, V., Coll, M., et al. (2025). A skill assessment framework for the Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project. Earth's Future, 13, e2024EF004868. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004868
- Sarmento, H., Huber, P., Santos-Júnior, C.D., Abreu, A., Makhalanyane, T.P., Karenyi, N. and Rocke, E., 2025. The southern gap in ocean microbiome science. Ocean Microbiology, 1(1), p.6.
- Sherley, R.B., Crawford, R.J., Mcinnes, A.M., Shannon, L.J., Sydeman, W.J. and Waller, L.J., 2025. Rejoinder to: Cochrane et al., Errors and bias in marine conservation and fisheries literature: Their impact on policies and perceptions [Mar. Policy 168 (2024) 106329]. Marine Policy, 172, p.106516.
Stanton L, Verrinder R, Paine S, Pead J, Barendse P, Ferg E. (2025). Observations of freezing lead acid batteries using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 172(12):120510. DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ae235e
Vichi M, Seyboth E, Mazomba T, Vermeulen E, Findlay K, Meynecke JO, De Bie J, Secchi E, Dalla Rosa L, Roychoudhury A. (2025). Historical catch records of humpback whales and the assessment of early 20th century sea ice edge in climate models. Environmental Research: Climate, 4(2):025005
Villasante S, Shannon L, Waddock S, Garibaldi LA, Bennett NJ, Gupta J, Obura D, Norström AV, O’Brien K, Pascual U, Agrawal A. (2025). The human right to a safe climate. Nature Sustainability, 8(12):1423-1424.
Vineis JH, Burger JM, Fawcett SE, Ward BB. (2025). Co‐occurrence and successional patterns among diatoms, dinoflagellates, and potential parasites in a coastal upwelling experiment. Limnology and Oceanography, 70(5):1481-1498
Wallschuss S, Granger J, Bourbonnais A, Flynn R, Burger J, Pillay K, Fawcett S. (2025). The role of sediments in modulating nitrous oxide production in the Southern Benguela Upwelling System: insights from stable isotopic tracers. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 39(8):e2024GB008463.
White D, Paine S, Verrinder R. (2025). Software-Defined SFCW Radar for the Measurement of Sea Ice Thickness. In 2025 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf25), pp. 1277-1280.
Wozniak D, Atkinson L, Karenyi N. (2025). Statistically classified marine epifaunal bioregions on the Southern Benguela margin, South Africa. Ecology and Evolution, 15(12):e72549.
- Belelie MD, Burger RP, Von Holdt JR, Garland RM, Liswaniso GM, Thomalla SJ, Piketh SJ. (2025). Namib desert dust affects phytoplankton biomass in the Benguela upwelling region: Insights from first mesocosm study. Continental Shelf Research, 285:105400.
- Brokensha R, Landschoff J, Griffiths C. (2025). Taxonomic guide to the mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) of South Africa. Zootaxa, 5713(1):1-93.
- Kupczyk AM, Lamont T, Halo I, Russo CS, Rixen T, Lahajnar N. (2025). A shelf-scale assessment of GLORYS and BRAN ocean reanalysis model outputs for the southern Benguela Upwelling System. African Journal of Marine Science, 47(2):153-68.
- Oliveros‐Ramos R, Shin YJ. (2025). Calibrar: An R package for fitting complex ecological models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16(3):507-19.
1. Boyd PW, Arrigo KR, Ardyna M, Halfter S, Huckstadt L, Kuhn AM, Lannuzel D, Neukermans G, Novaglio C, Shadwick EH, Swart S, Thomalla SJ. 2024. The role of biota in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 5(5):390-408.
2. de Cerff C, Rocke E, Oyatoye AE, Maniel G, Pillay D. 2024. Mesocosm evidence for sandprawn-mediated shifts in pelagic resource ratios and phytoplankton traits. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 305:108874.
3. De Santi F, Vichi M, Alberello A. 2024. Estimation of Antarctic sea ice thickness through observation of wave attenuation. Ocean Modelling, 191:102421.
4. Gammage LC, Longo CS, van Putten I, Bucio-Bustos E, Gordon AK, Lejbowicz A, Vergara-Solana FJ. 2024. The power of collaboration in multifishery improvement initiatives. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81(5):833-49.
5. Germishuizen M, Vichi M, Vermeulen E. 2024. Population changes in a Southern Ocean krill predator point towards regional Antarctic sea ice declines. Scientific Reports, 14(1):25820.
6. Granger R, Smart SM, Foreman A, Auderset A, Campbell EC, Marshall TA, Haug GH, Sigman DM, Martínez‐García A, Fawcett SE. 2024. Tracking Agulhas leakage in the South Atlantic using modern planktic foraminifera nitrogen isotopes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(9):e2023GC011190.
7. Haugen, J.B., Link, J.S., Cribari, K., Bundy, A., Dickey-Collas, M., Leslie, H.M., Hall, J., Fulton, E.A., Levenson, J.J., Parsons, D.M. and Hassellöv, I.M., ..Shannon, L., ...Agnalt, A.L. 2024. Marine ecosystem-based management: challenges remain, yet solutions exist, and progress is occurring. npj Ocean Sustainability, 3(1), p.7.
8. Hepworth E, Messori G, Vichi M. 2024. Synoptic‐scale extreme variability of winter Antarctic sea‐ice concentration and its link to Southern Ocean extratropical cyclones. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(6):e2023JC019825.
9. Keith, D. A., Ghoraba, S. M. M., Kaly, E., Jones, K. R., Oosthuizen, A., Obura, D., ... Shannon, L.J., ...& Ferrer‐Paris, J. R. (2024). Contributions of Red Lists of Ecosystems to risk‐based design and management of protected and conserved areas in Africa. Conservation Biology.
10. Lachkar Z, Cornejo-D'Ottone M, Singh A, Arístegui J, Dewitte B, Fawcett S, Garçon V, Lovecchio E, Molina V, Vinayachandran PN. 2024. Biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases in coastal upwelling systems: Processes and sensitivity to global change. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1):00088.
11. Madell KA, Scharler UM, Savage C, Karlson AM, Pillay D. 2024. Arrested development and increased incidence of sandprawn embryonic aberrations along an intertidal human recreation gradient. Scientific Reports, 14(1):26836.
12. McInnes, A.M., Weideman, E.A., Carpenter-Kling, T., Barham, P., Christian, M., Day, K., Glencross, J.S., Hagen, C., Kock, A., Lawrence, C., Ludynia, K., Makhado, A., Pichegru, L., Shannon, L.J., Sherley, R.B., Smith, C., Steinfurth, A., Stander, N., Upfold, L., and Waller, L. 2024. Commercial fishery no-take zones for African penguins minimize fisheries losses at the expense of conservation gains, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024;, fsae109, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae109
13. Mongwe P, Gregor L, Tjiputra J, Hauck J, Ito T, Danek C, Vichi M, Thomalla S, Monteiro PM. 2024. Projected poleward migration of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink region under high emissions. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1):232.
14. Ruzicka, J., Chiaverano, L., Coll, M., Garrido, S., Tam, J., Murase, H., Robinson, K., Romagnoni, G., Shannon, L., Silva, A. and Szalaj, D., 2024. The role of small pelagic fish in diverse ecosystems: knowledge gleaned from food-web models. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
15. Selivanova J, Iovino D, Vichi M. 2024. Limited benefits of increased spatial resolution for sea ice in HighResMIP simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(14):e2023GL107969.
16. Shield, S., Verrinder, R., Amayo, P., Mwangama, J., & Patel, A. (2023). Wild tech: Exploring South Africa’s unique robotics landscape. Science Robotics, 8(85), eadm7015. doi.org
17. Sinyanya KY, Marshall TA, Flynn RF, Harris E, Mdutyana M, Roman R, Walker DR, Wallschuss S, Fawcett SE. 2024. Wintertime productivity and carbon export potential across the Agulhas Current system. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 213:104405.
18. Smit, K.P., Sink, K.J., Shannon, L.J., Bernard, A.T. and Lombard, A.T., 2024. Groundtruthing cumulative impact assessments with biodiversity data: Testing indicators and methods for marine ecosystem condition assessments in South Africa. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34(2), p.e4096.
19. Stirnimann L, Bornman TG, Forrer HJ, Mirkin J, Ryan‐Keogh TJ, Flynn RF, Dorrington RA, Verheye HM, Fawcett SE. 2024. A circum‐Antarctic plankton isoscape: Carbon export potential across the summertime southern ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(1):e2023GB007808.
20. Stirnimann L, Bornman TG, Verheye HM, Fawcett SE. 2024. Seasonal trends in Subantarctic plankton δ13C and δ15N are driven by phytoplankton dynamics and nutrient preference. Limnology and Oceanography, 69(11):2547-63.
21. Thomas CM, Maniel GA, Gilmour K, Oyatoye AE, Marco HG, Pillay D. 2024. Microphytobenthic responses to endobenthic bioturbator density, temperature and eutrophication in a global change mesocosm experiment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 581:152066.
22. Thomas RK, Fawcett SE, Forrer HJ, Robinson CM, Knapp AN. 2024. Estimates of the isotope effect for Nitrate assimilation in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(7):e2023JC020830.
23. Toffoli A, Alberello A, Clarke H, Nelli F, Benetazzo A, Bergamasco F, Ntamba BN, Vichi M, Onorato M. 2024. Observations of rogue seas in the Southern Ocean. Physical Review Letters, 132(15):154101.
24. von der Heyden S, Mofokeng RP, Adams JB, Midgley GF, Pillay D, Watson KM, Boshoff BJ, Bossert A, Combrink C, Engelbrecht T, Govender S. 2024. Nine decades of research on Zostera capensis: from foundational science to conservation and resilience. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 748:197-212
25. Womack A, Alberello A, de Vos M, Toffoli A, Verrinder R, Vichi M. 2024. A contrast in sea ice drift and deformation between winter and spring of 2019 in the Antarctic marginal ice zone. The Cryosphere, 18(1):205-29.
1. Baliwe NG, Pfaff MC, Branch GM. 2024. Effects of experimental manipulations of the density of a key grazer Cymbula granatina on rocky-shore community composition in the Benguela ecosystem, South Africa. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 581:152065.
2. Baliwe NG, Pfaff MC, Branch GM. 2024. Effects of harvesting and an invasive mussel on intertidal rocky shore communities based on historical and spatial comparisons. Plos One, 19(2):e0294404.
3. Cheung HL, Hillman JR, Pilditch CA, Savage C, Santos IR, Glud RN, Nascimento FJ, Thrush SF, Bonaglia S. 2024. Denitrification, anammox, and DNRA in oligotrophic continental shelf sediments. Limnology and Oceanography, 69(3):621-37.
4. Fenton KF, Salmond NH, Foreman SE, Curtis JS, Jowett T, Savage C, Wing SR. 2024. High densities of large tuaki, the New Zealand cockle Austrovenus stutchburyi, provide a post-settlement predation refuge for conspecific juveniles. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 726:85-98.
5. Katharoyan C, Peer N, Landschoff J, Griffiths CL, Samaai T, Beeslaar D. 2024. Kelp holdfasts in the Great African Seaforest provide habitat for diverse assemblages of macroinvertebrates. Aquatic Biology, 33:33-45.
6. Ladewig SM, Bianchi TS, Coco G, Ferretti E, Gladstone-Gallagher RV, Hillman J, Hope JA, Savage C, Schenone S, Thrush SF. 2024. Polyester microfiber impacts on coastal sediment organic matter consumption. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 202:116298.
7. Perry Z, Rapolaki R, Roffe S, Ragoasha M. 2024. Analysing the atmospheric-oceanic conditions driving the sustained long track and intensity of tropical cyclone Freddy. Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 13(4):356-88.
1. Audh RR, Fawcett SE, Johnson S, Rampai T, Vichi M. 2023. Rafting of Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Enhances In‐Ice Biogeochemical Activity in Winter. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(12):e2023JC019925.
2. Dames NR, Wallschuss S, Rocke E, Pitcher G, Rybicki E, Pfaff M, Burger J, Fawcett SE, Moloney CL. 2023. Short-term dynamics of nano-and picoplankton production in an embayment of the southern Benguela upwelling region. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 284:108285.
3. de Coito PM, Emami‐Khoyi A, Hedderson TA, Toonen RJ, Teske PR, Branch GM. 2023. A critically endangered estuarine limpet’s only two populations are genomically and morphologically distinct. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 33(9):867-83.
4. de Vos A, Cambronero-Solano S, Mangubhai S, Nefdt L, Woodall LC, Stefanoudis PV. 2023. Towards equity and justice in ocean sciences. Npj Ocean Sustainability, 2(1):25.
5. de Vos M, Vichi M, Rautenbach C. 2023. A wave-driven surface circulation feature in Table Bay. Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science, 73(1):60-76.
6. Faure-Beaulieu N, Lombard AT, Olbers J, Goodall V, da Silva C, Daly R, Jordaan G, Kerwath SE, Kock A, Mann BQ, Murray TS. 2023. A systematic conservation plan identifying critical areas for improved chondrichthyan protection in South Africa. Biological Conservation, 284:110163.
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Peer-reviewed conference proceedings, Policy reports, Technical reports, Patents
- IOC of UNESCO. 2026. Integrated Ocean Carbon Research: a vision primed for implementation. Paris, UNESCO. (IOC Technical Series, 214.) https://doi.org/10.71245/FULK2623
- Abreu, A., Javal, A., Palmela de Oliveira, R., Sousa, D., Silva, R., Sarmento, H., Karenyi, N., Pesant, S., & Iudicone, D. Advancing equitable research cooperation in Ocean sciences across the Atlantic Ocean. AtlantECO Policy Brief (1.0). 2025. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14989171
- Haugan, P., Lynne Shannon, Kwame Adu Agyekum, Maritza Cárdenas, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Michelle Mycoo, Ilka Peeken, Fangli Qiao, Awnesh Singh, Sabrina Speich, Mia Strand, Rashid Sumaila. Co-producing ocean Actionable knowledge for Transformative solutions And global cooperation. 2025. Policy report of the International Science Council.
- Shannon L, Peter Haugan, Kwame Adu, Agyekum, Maritza Cárdenas, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Michelle Mycoo, Ilka Peeken, Fangli Qiao, Awnesh Singh, Sabrina Speich, Mia Strand, Rashid Sumaila. Ocean at a Tipping Point: Science-based priorities for UNOC3. 2025.. International Science Council, 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75116 Paris, France.
- Mpala, A, 2025. Stakeholder Dynamics in Melkhoutfontein, St Helena Bay and Bluewater Bay Report. University of Cape Town. Report. https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.28395248.v2
- Rocke, E., Stephane, P., Chris, B., Colomban, V., and Ludicone, D. and the AtlantECO Mission Microbiomes consortium: Insights from the AtlantECO Mission Microbiomes Expedition, One Ocean Science Congress 2025, Nice, France, 3–6 Jun 2025, OOS2025-1340, https://doi.org/10.5194/oos2025-1340 , 2025.
- Blanchard, J.L. & Novaglio, C., eds Climate change risks to marine ecosystems and fisheries – Projections to 2100 from the Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project,.2024. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper, No. 707. Rome, FAO.
- Hyder K., Sowman, M., Fernandes, M., Gammage, L., Ortega Cisneros, K., Mbatha, P., Potts, W., Rivers, N., Sauer, W., Shannon, L., Sink, K, Snow, B., Townhill, B.L., van Maltitz, G., Pinnegar, J.K., 2024. Climate adaptation for fisheries in South Africa. One Ocean Hub Report, 4 pp. https://doi.org/10.14465/2024.ooh01.pol
- Makkonen R, Thomas J, et al. Enhancing Polar System Representation in Models for EU Climate Decision 2024. Policy brief from the projects CRiceS and PolarRES.
- Nair A, Boje E, Verrinder RA. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics modelling of pancake sea ice on waves. Proceedings of the 13th South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics (SACAM 2024), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2024, 230-237.
- Rampersadh G, Finbow M, Verrinder RA, Boje E. Sea-state interaction-based Lagrangian dynamic model of the Liquid Robotics Wave Glider platform. 2024 European Control Conference (ECC), Stockholm, Sweden, 2024, pp. 1119-1124. doi: 10.23919/ECC64448.2024.10591032.
- Villasante, S., Shannon, L., Liao, C., Betemariam, E., Cunningham, S., Ellis, E., Hausner, V., Huang, Q., Mannetti, L., Otero, I., Piñeiro, G., Prasad Gautam, A., Waddock, S., Wheeler, H., Fouqueray, T., Karasov, O., Tasse Taboue, G., Mazzeo, N., Mishra, A., and Guibal, C. 2024. Chapter 2: Visions of a sustainable world – for nature and people. In: Thematic Assessment Report on the Underlying Causes of Biodiversity Loss and the Determinants of Transformative Change and Options for Achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. O’Brien, K., Garibaldi, L., and Agrawal, A. (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11382240
- IPBES (2024). Summary for Policymakers of the Thematic Assessment Report on the Underlying Causes of Biodiversity Loss and the Determinants of Transformative Change and Options for Achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. O’Brien, K., Garibaldi, L., Agrawal, A., Bennett, E., Biggs, R., Calderón Contreras, R., Carr, E., Frantzeskaki, N., Gosnell, H., Gurung, J., Lambertucci, S., Leventon, J., Liao, C., Reyes García, V., Shannon, L., Villasante, S., Wickson, F., Zinngrebe, Y., and Perianin, L. (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11382230
- Gammage, L.C., Jarre, A., Jarre, I.C., Ward, C., 2023. Understanding drivers of fishing pressure in South Africa's Western Cape: Development of a first set of social vulnerability indicators for comparability around the Atlantic Ocean. University of Cape Town. Report. https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.24376036.v1
- Gammage, L.C., Strand, M., Jarre, A., Snow, B., and Metugu, D., 2021. Exploring the social-ecological implications of ocean and coastal mining (OCM) from an ecosystem-based approach. Report prepared for the Council of GeoSciences, 1-189
- Noyce M, Verrinder RA, Vichi M. Identification of ice floe impacts in an inertial time series and implications for wave measurement in pancake ice. IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 149-152. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281906
- Spirakis A, Hepworth J, Verrinder RA. 3D Reconstruction of pancake sea ice using LiDAR and cameras. IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, 60-63. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10282250
- Ward, C., Gammage, L., Jarre, A., 2022. Community Profiles for Western Cape Marine Fisheries. University of Cape Town. Report. https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.19383602.v1
- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Expert Input to the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Transformative Actions on all Drivers of Biodiversity Loss are Urgently Required to Achieve the Global Goals by 2050. 2022. https://www.cbd.int/doc/c/5735/c241/efeeac8d7685af2f38d75e4e/sbstta-24-inf-31-en.pdf
Datasets and Software
- Audh, R. R., Burger, J., Collins, D., Deary, A., Fawcett, S. E., Altieri, K., & Vichi, M. (2023). Available data from South African Voyages in the Southern Ocean (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8413192
- Audh, R. R., Johnson, S., Hambrock, M., Little, H., Mirkin, J., Omatuku, E., Hall, B., Rampai, T., MacHutchon, K., Skatulla, S., Fawcett, S. E., & Vichi, M. (2023). Sea ice core biogeochemical data collected during the 2019 SCALE Winter Cruise (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7821287
- de Vos, M., Ramjukadh, C.-L., de Villiers, M., Lyttle, C., Womack, A., & Vichi, M. (2023). Polar Iridium Surface Velocity Profilers (p-iSVP), and standard Iridium Surface Velocity Profilers (iSVP) during SCALE 2019 Winter and Spring Cruises [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7954779
- Vichi, M. (2023). SCALE-WIN22 cruise track, stations, sea-ice edge, and SAR images on Google Earth [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7902992
- Vichi, M. (2023). SCALE-WIN22 Cruise Report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7902557
- Womack, A., Verrinder, R., Vichi, M., Alberello, A., MacHutchon, K., Skatulla, S., & Toffoli, A. (2023). An ice-tethered, non-floating Trident Sensors Helix Beacon during SCALE 2019 Spring Cruise [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7954841
- Mangatane, J. M. (2024). Antarctic Sea-ice thickness from six satellite-based methods (Version 3). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17552263
- Audh, R. R., Johnson, S., Paul, F., Moos, S., Keche, T., Mangatane, M., Swait, H., Kumadiro, L., Collins, D., Rampai, T., Fawcett, S. E., & Vichi, M. (2024). Sea ice core temperature and salinity data collected during the 2022 SCALE Winter Cruise (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11502700