Successful workshop on modelling & biomanipulation

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The North West University Potchefstroom Campus along with the Department of Water Affairs & Forestry organised a successful workshop on the Applicability of Modelling Techniques and Biomanipulation in the Aquatic Environment at the Roode Valley Country Lodge. A number of international specialists presented at the workshop, including ecological informatics expert Prof Friedrich Recknagel from Adelaide University and Prof Erik Jeppeson from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, who specialises in aquatic ecology. Workshops participants were taken by boat on to Roodeplaat Dam to view the present hyacinth clearing project. More than 37 ha of hyacinth has been removed by hand since February. A total of 26 people are employed on the hyacinth removal project on the Roodeplaat Dam. Ecological informatics expert Prof Friedrich Recknagel from Adelaide University was one of the international speakers at the workshop. Dr Bill Harding, one of the few remaining limnologists in the country, delivered several presentations at the workshop.

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