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What Marine Spatial Planning Research Group Institute for Coastal & Marine Research (interdisciplinary) Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University When Started at NMMU Jan 2016 Where Virtual campus New Marine and Maritime Campus 2017 PE Vision 2016 to undertake research that will inform ecosystem-based Marine Spatial Planning in South Africa Dr Theoni Photopoulou Dr Gwenith Penry Jodie Reed Kaylee Smit Zoleka Filander Hannah Raven Nokuthula Daweti Summer Newton Tsamaelo Malebu Kaylee Smit, PhD Testing & assessing marine ecosystem condition on hard and soft bottom habitats in South Africa Condition Map Pressures Protection Threat status Zoleka Filander (PhD) Identifying and mapping sensitive deep-sea ecosystems in South Africa. Dead reef-building coral specimens collected from a dredge sample off the Cape Canyon head (2016) Potential sensitive systems mapped to date (Sink & Samaai, In press) FAO VME report, 2006 Unidentified cold-water coral species Trawl by-catch Leadsman and Chaka in northern KZN (east coast of South Africa: Indian Ocean) Theoni Photopoulou, Postdoc Quantifying the impact of environmental change on the movement ecology of marine top predators with applications to marine spatial planning xt-1 xt+1 xt Observations Hidden states (e.g., depth, behaviour etc) st-1 “inactive” state “active” state st Day st+1 Night