ADU Travels, Expeditions and Events

2007...
• Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Lüderitz
• Birding for PAOC12 around the Goudini Spa Conference Centre in Pentads 3340_1915 "Rawsonville" and 3335_1915 "Goudini"
• Ringing Camp at Pawlowice, Vistula River, Poland
• 9th South Eastern European Bird Migration Network (SEEN) Workshop
• Steering Committee for the Top Predators' Project of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) Programme, 5-13 March 2007

2006...
• AFRING Waterbird Ringing Course, Ghana, 20-28 October 2006
• 24th International Ornithological Congress, Hamburg, Germany, 9-13 August 2006
• Australian perspective on wild fires, July 2006
• Speech by Mr PW Saaiman, MEC for Tourism, Environment and Conservation (Northern Cape) at the launch of the book: Birds of The Orange River Estuary and Surrounding Area at the University of Cape Town, Tuesday 9 May 2006
• Strandfontein Outing, 5 November 2005
• Tristan Da Cunha Celebrates its 500th Anniversary with a new Environmental Protection Law and a Request for ACAP Ratification
• Avian Flu surveillance, Lake Chilwa, Malawi

2004...
• Kamfers Dam, Kimberley
• Award to the ADU by the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa
• Marion Island Takeover Voyage, 1 April–6 May 2004
• Trip to Scotland and Global Flyways Conference
• National Ringing course 7, Wakkerstroom, 3-10 January 2004

2003...
• Orange River ringing trip, 12-19 October 2003
• Jena Student visit, 22 Sep - 9 Oct 2003
• Ringing visit to Inhaca Island, June 2003
• Vulture Study Group meeting and ringing
• Ringing visit to Namibian islands, January 2003
• Ringing visit to Dyer Island, January 2003
• The Pelican Brief, Part 3: End of the Season
• Waterbird meeting in Naivasha, Kenya, 26-28 February 2003

2002...
• Conference on Oil Pollution and Conservation of Biodiversity, Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy
• Visits to University of Goettingen, Germany
• Leslie Gordon Underhill Elected a University Fellow as two ADU Students Graduate With PhDs
• The Pelican Brief, Part 2: Escape of the Beasties
• Namibia: Chocolate for the Soul
• The Pelican People: Dassen Island, 11 & 12 September
• To Hel and back in less than a week...
• ADU Roadshow, 6 - 20 September 2002
• 23rd International Ornithological Congress, China, 9-23 August 2002
• A subtropical waderologist in arctic conditions
• Preliminary Report on the Mammals and Birds at the Piasina Delta, Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia, Russia, June-July 2002
• Micro data logger deployments on Grey-headed and Wandering Albatrosses at Marion Island
• Les Underhill awarded Gilchrist Medal Award for services to marine science
• Holiday in Malawi
• Storm on Robben Island - big waves and other goodies
• Australia holiday, March 2002
• Swartberg hike, 28 May - 1 June 2002
• 20 May 2002 Breakfast to Celebrate Partnerships and Progress with Seabird and Shorebird Projects
• A trip to Alexander Bay and the Orange River Mouth, 9 May 2002
• Swift Tern ringing at the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station
• Birds' eye view of the Cape Peninsula
• Ford Bantam bakkie on Robben Island
• The official opening of the new ADU offices
• The Islands of Saldahna Bay and Langebaan Lagoon: A Trip in Time
• Visiting USA: Pacific Seabirds and The Mid-West
• Family launch of the new offices of the Avian Demography Unit

2001...
• Visit to Boston, USA, to attend the Annual Conference of the Earthwatch Institute
• Prince Edward Islands Millennium Expedition - FRS Africana
• Prince Edward Islands Millennium Expedition - The Voyage South from Cape Town: 12-17 December 2001
• The Pelican Brief
• Wakkerstroom Ringing Workshop, December 2001
• Running with Kangaroos and Aussie Islands
• Seabird ringing course, Lamberts Bay
• Counting shorebirds along the Wadden Sea coast in northern Germany
• Marine and Coastal Communicator of the Year Award
• Wader ringing at The Wash, Norfolk, England
• Third Conference of the European Ornithologists' Union, Groningen, Netherlands
• Symposium on Avian Migration, Konstanz, Germany
• Getting into Deep Water
• Winter 2001 count of the waders at Langebaan Lagoon
• Assessing toothfish in Liverpool, and having a good tern