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SOCCO in Mail & Guardian: Robotic sailors take on Antarctica’s winter storms
SOCCO featured in Mail & Guardian article.
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SOCCO is a South African integrated science and innovation programme in support of the Department of Science and Innovation’s (DSI) Decadal and Strategic Plans.
We aim to strengthen South Africa’s climate impact as a global citizen with a clear commitment to ocean and climate stewardship.
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Dr Thulwaneng Mashifane featured in CSIR ScienceScope
SOCCO ocean modeller Dr Thulwaneng Mashifane talks to the CSIR's ScienceScope magazine about using models and machine learning to understand how climate change is reshaping the ocean.
Dr. Thulwaneng Mashifane
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SOCCO in Engineering News
SOCCO's part in COCO2 covered by Creamer Media's Engineering News.
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Research
SOCCO is a South African born programme whose Integrated Science and Innovation Strategy links the value chain from basic science to societal impact in technological innovation and policy. In addition SOCCO serves as a technological innovation system and an end-to-end Human Capital Development platform. Continue Reading
Facilities
SOCCO has setup five world class research facilities (ocean robotics, bio-optics and biogeochemistry, CO₂, trace metal biogeochemistry and high resolution modelling) to address our multidisciplinary science objectives. These facilities now form part of the core of SOCCO as well as the South African ocean-climate science landscape stimulating funded international collaborations. Continue Reading
Publications
Browse peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and data products by SOCCO researchers since 2021. (but not through this link ->) Continue Reading