Dr Howard Waldron

Designation: Senior Lecturer: Department of Oceanography; Marine Research Institute
Expertise: Physico-biological oceanography, Phytoplankton nutrient dynamics, Nitrogen uptake and regeneration, Carbon sequestration and Water quality analyses

Biography

With a BSc (Hons) Swansea and a  MSc PhD from Cape Town, Dr Waldron has been serving the post of senior lecturer at UCT's Department of Oceanography. His research programme affiliations include: BASICS project, Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) – Climate change; Land Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) – Estuarine N and P dynamics; Benguela Ecosystems – Shelf edge exchange processes, Green Seas Project.

Latest Five Publications:

1. Waldron H., C.K. Wainman, M.E. Waldron, C. Whittle and G. Brundrit (2008) A prominent colour front in False Bay, South Africa: cross-frontal structure, composition and origin. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 77, 614-622. ISSN: 0272-7714
2. Waldron, H and D. Petrie (2008) Desert-ocean thermal energy conversion. Energy Management News. 14(1), 1-2.
3. Waldron, H.N., Monteiro, P.M.S. and Swart N. (2009) Carbon export and sequestration in the southern Benguela upwelling system: lower and upper estimates. Ocean Science, 5, 711-718.
4. Painter S.C., Sanders R., Waldron H.N., Lucas M.I., Woodward E.M.S. and K. Chamberlain (2008) Nitrate uptake along repeat meridional transects of the Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Marine Systems, 74, Issues 1-2. 227-240. ISSN: 0924-7963
5. Painter S., Sanders R., Waldron H.N., Lucas M. and S. Torres-Valdes (2008) Urea distribution and uptake in the subtropical Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. Vol. 368: 53–63, 2008 doi: 10.3354/meps 07586 ISSN 0171-8630