Natural Sciences

Integrated water assessment and solutions

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CSIR research in this domain is crucial for the protection of national water resources and the environment from the impact of water pollution. Researchers develop robust in-situ water quality monitoring technologies to determine the origin of pollutants; methods for non-conventional and emerging ...

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Natural Sciences

Water Research Centre

Environmental management services

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The CSIR has over 30 years of experience and sound environmental assessment and management expertise, having conducted studies in more than 20 African countries, particularly Southern Africa and West Africa. The CSIR’s Environmental Management Services research group assists in ensuring the susta...

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Natural Sciences

Earth And Related Environmental Science

Smart Places

Wind And Solar Pv Resource Aggregation Study For South Africa

CSIR hosts workshop on software-defined networking and network function virtualisation impacting 5G

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) hosted a workshop, including an expert panel, on how software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) will impact th...

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Mobile Systems

Natural Sciences

Computer And Information Science

Human Computer Interaction

Telecommunications

Network Engineering

CSIR Meraka Institute

CSIR

Data revolution: The gold rush of the information age

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Statistics has entered almost every aspect of human endeavour from sport to weather, health, population growth rate, agriculture, housing, schooling, unemployment and the stock market. At the centre of statistics lies data. This entails designing ways to collect, summarise, visualise, present and...

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CSIR chief scientist addresses UNFCCC governments on global warming issues

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Summary for Policymakers of its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, on 8 October 2018. CSIR chief scientist Prof Francois Engelbrecht attended the launch event in Korea, where he delivered an address on the impacts of global...

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Climate Dynamics

Natural Sciences

Earth And Related Environmental Science

Climate Modelling

Climate Change Ecology

Industrial sensors

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OUR CORE CAPABILITIES Industrial Systems Ultrasonic Human and Societal Systems The Industrial Sensors Impact area has established significant technology and product development capabilities in the field of sensors. It is both ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certified and undertakes custom product developm...

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Natural Sciences

An integrated systems modelling approach in environmental modelling, simulation and analysis

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One of the challenges in environmental systems resource management is a lack of continuum-integrated advanced mathematical modelling solutions and decision-support tools to evaluate interaction across environmental systems. Specifically, tools are needed to evaluate interaction between complex na...

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Natural Sciences

Mathematics

Atlas to help SA prepare for climate change

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Media invite The impact of climate change continues to have devastating effects on nations across the globe, and South Africa has not been spared. Provinces like the Western Cape are experiencing one of its worst droughts in decades, while the Free State and Northern Cape have suffered substantia...

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Climate Dynamics

Natural Sciences

Earth And Related Environmental Science

Climate Modelling

CSIR

Getting South Africans to separate waste at source

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Waste management service provider, Pikitup, has commissioned the CSIR to investigate potential regulatory or economic interventions that will encourage more people in residential areas to participate in a waste-separation-at-source programme in Johannesburg. Participation by households has been l...

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Integrated Waste Management

Natural Sciences

Other Natural Sciences

Waste Management

Ocean robots and global climate modelling in SOCCO’s future

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CSIR researchers at the Southern Ocean Carbon & Climate Observatory (SOCCO) will put five years of climate and ocean study to the test as part of the international Good Hope-SOSCEx 2019 Experiment. Dr Pedro Monteiro hopes that the outcome of this coordinated South African polar community experime...

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Climate Mitigation

Natural Sciences

Earth And Related Environmental Science

Climate Modelling

Climate Impacts

Mitigating Climate Change Impacts Along The Coast Using Technology