Janine Adams
Janine Adams is a professor in the Botany Department at the Nelson Mandela University, Deputy Director of the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research and a member of the Sustainability Research Unit. Her specialist research field is on estuaries, their functioning, conservation and management. She has published over 135 articles in rated journals and made a significant contribution to global knowledge on estuary ecology, aquatic botany and environmental water requirements. Janine is committed to research excellence and passionate about research training and capacity building. She has graduated 32 MSc and 22 PhD students. Janine is past president of the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists, she served as Chairperson of the Water Research Commission and is a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. In 2013 and 2017 she received the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University researcher of the year award and in 2015 the silver medal from the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists. In 2018 she was the Science Faculty researcher of the year. Current research focus areas are blue carbon ecosystems and response to climate change, mangrove and salt marsh ecology and water quality management of estuaries. Past research has successfully linked science, policy and management through extensive collaboration and networking with different universities, institutes and government departments. She led the teams that developed the ecological flow requirements method for the Department of Water Affairs and the estuary management protocol for the Department of Environmental Affairs.
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