Minister Molewa to launch National Marine Week and Oceans Monitoring Buoy at Elands Bay Hotel, Western Cape
7 Oct 2011
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa, MP, will, on Monday, 10 October 2011, launch the annual National Marine Week awareness campaign under the theme: “Changing Climate, Changing Oceans, Changing People.”
As part of the awareness campaign and government commitment to understanding the impacts of climate change and the threats posed to coastal communities by oceans, Minister Molewa will also launch an oceans processes monitoring buoy system at Elands Bay on the West Coast of the Western Cape.
The buoy will play a significant role in climate research in the ocean environment as it will measure ocean temperatures and currents in order to better understand the effects of climate change on our oceans and therefore enable coastal communities to be better prepared to deal with adverse conditions.
The emerging impacts of climate change and other factors are making South Africa’s coastline more susceptible to natural hazards, such as storm surges and rising sea levels. The coastline is also exposed to and threatened by pollution.
It is therefore important to monitor the marine environment and provide predictions of change. To this end the department’s Oceans & Coasts branch has developed an oceans monitoring buoy system that monitors key oceanographic processes.
Between 2011 and 2012 the department will deploy, along the South African coastline, a range of new equipment on and around the coast of South Africa covering the coastline, shelf waters, the deeper continental slope environment, very deep offshore regions and coastal weather systems.
These will include four locally designed and manufactured real-time coastal monitoring buoys (known as Data Buoy) ― two deployed in KwaZulu-Natal, one in the Tsitsikamma National Park, and one at Elands Bay.
Media is invited. Please confirm attendance by Friday, 7 October 2011.
Details of the event:
Date: 10 October 2011
Time: 10h00
Venue: Elands Bay Hotel, Western Cape
Enquiries:
Zolile Nqayi
Tel: 021 819 2423
Cell: 082 898 6483
E-mail: znqayi@environment.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Environmental Affairs
7 Oct 2011
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