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South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Agency overview
Formed
  • JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology - 1966; 58 years ago (1966)
  • South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity - 1999; 25 years ago (1999)
HeadquartersSomerset Street, Makhanda,  South Africa
33°18.593′S 26°31.152′E / 33.309883°S 26.519200°E / -33.309883; 26.519200
Parent departmentDepartment of Science and Innovation
Parent agencyNational Research Foundation
Websitehttps://saiab.ac.za

The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), is involved in research, education and in applications of its knowledge and research to African fish fauna, for either economic or conservation benefit.

The institute originally established in 1969, was formerly named the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, in honour of Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith, who named and described the living coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae. The JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology received recognition as a national research entity, renamed as the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity in 1999.

Situated in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) is an internationally recognised centre for the study of aquatic biodiversity.

As a National Facility of the NRF, SAIAB serves as a major scientific resource for knowledge and understanding the biodiversity and functioning of globally significant aquatic ecosystems. With both marine and freshwater biogeographical boundaries, southern Africa is ideally placed to monitor and document climate change.

From a marine perspective South Africa forms the southern apex of a major continental mass, flanked by very different marine ecosystems on the east and west coasts, and projecting towards the cold southern Ocean large marine ecosystem. SAIAB's scientific leadership and expertise in freshwater aquatic biodiversity is vital to the national interest when dealing with issues arising from exponentially increasing pressures of human population growth and development.

Special Collections

SAIAB is home to the Margaret Smith Library, named in honour of the first Director of the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Affiliations

References

  1. SAIAB. "Feature". SAIAB. NRF. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  2. SAIAB. "Library". SAIAB. National Research Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  3. Rhodes University (8 December 2015). "Margaret Smith Library SAIAB". Rhodes University. Rhodes University. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  4. Office of the Vice-Chancellor (2004). Memorandum of Understanding between Rhodes University and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB). Grahamstown: Rhodes University.

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