Service Provider
Climatology Research Group

Description of project:

The Climatology Research Group (CRG), based in the Department of Geography at Wits University, is involved in an extensive research project into haze in the Cape Town Metropolitan region. This project involves NASA and learners from 18 Secondary schools in the Cape Metropole. The learners are involved mostly in data collection using handheld haze meters. They will also be taken through workshops at which they will get to see how the information is analyzed and how they as a school have contributed to the research project as a whole.

The Shuttleworth Foundation's involvement:

The Foundation is involved in funding the summer phase of the project as well as the follow-up data workshops (where the collected data and its results will be discussed)

Aims and objectives:

• To get learners involved in a real/broader research project
• To excite and encourage learners by showing them how their school studies can be applied to real life scenarios.

Timeline and deliverables:

November 2003 - November 2004

Status: (March 2004)

The winter phase went well with the learners showing great enthusiasm for the project. All the information collected has been sent to NASA for analysis. The summer phase of the project is currently in progress.