Revise, Rebut & Resubmit

Keegan Fraser For his Honours research project, Keegan explored the accuracy of media reporting on the climatology of Tropical Cyclone Idai, reflecting on the statements of ‘fact' portayed in these news articles pertaining to the category of the tropical cyclone, the wind speed, amount of rain, flooding and damage. He was awarded the top research project mark in his class for this work, the Stanley Jackson prize for the top Geography Honours student, and the Society of South African Geographers Award for top Honours project in the country. A few weeks ago, a paper from his research was accepted for publication in the international journal Weather, Climate and Society. Keegan is currently studying towards an MSc in Geography, focusing on a quite different topic, constructing a liveability index for Pretoria that could be used by the insurance sector.   Keegan's first paper can be found here: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wcas/aop/WCAS-D-21-0085.1/WCAS-D-21-0085.1.xml   Many thanks to GENUS Palaeoscience for supporting this podcast

Nontobeko Mtshali is the Education and Energy and Environment Editor at The Conversation Africa. The team of editors at The Conversation works with academics to translate their research findings into readable news articles for the public. This provides a valuable platform for science communication, and bridges the gap between pieces written about science by non-scientists, and the scientific outputs themselves. Having worked with The Conversation for many years, writing pieces that break down my research outputs, and writing commissioned articles on current climate events, I am very excited to have Nontobeko on this podcast to talk about the process followed at The Conversation Africa. I should also mention that my own first podcast appearance was on The Conversation's podcast Pasha, run by Ozayr Patel.   The Conversation Africa can be found here: https://theconversation.com/africa   And The Coversation Africa's podcast Pasha can be found here: https://theconversation.com/africa/podcasts/pasha-theconversation-africa   Many thanks to GENUS Palaeoscience for supporting this podcast.

Dr Jaganmoy Jodder works on some of our earliest rocks and organisms on earth! For his PhD, and first paper, he worked on Archaen rocks. For his postdoc he is working on the earliest microfossils.    His first academic paper can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030192682100019X   Many thanks to GENUS Palaeosciences for funding this podcast.

Dr Miengah Abrahams is a dino tracker! She works in the Department of Geology at the University of Cape Town, with research focused on ichnology   Miengah's first paper can be found here: https://peerj.com/articles/2285/   And her first first-authored paper here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2016.1267164   Her full Google Scholar profile can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jNV71pUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra   Many thanks, as always, to GENUS Palaeosciences for so enthusiastically supporting this podcast. 

Professor Leslie Swartz is another somewhat unusual guest on this podcast, in that he published his first paper many, many years ago. With an h-index of 62, Leslie has certainly walked the road of revising and resubmitting his work many times. Today he is the Editor in Chief of the South African Journal of Science, and holds not one but two PhDs.  Leslie's Google Scholar profile, with the extensive list of publications over the past 40 years, can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tZXC_70AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao   And you can find the South African Journal of Science here: https://www.sajs.co.za   Many thanks, as always, to GENUS Palaeosciences for their support in the production of this podcast. 

Dr Robert Muir is a senior lecturer in sedimentology at the University of the Free State. He completed his undergraduate and PhD at UCT, focusing on sedimentology, stratigraphy and geochronology.    His first paper can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019566711500052X   And his full Google Scholar profile here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PVts8NQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra   Many thanks to GENUS Palaeosciences for supporting this podcast. 

Bongekile Zwane is a PhD candidate at the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, exploring the impacts of the Toba super-eruption in Indonesia 74 ka, on the palaeoenvironment of southern Africa.    Her first paper can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618220306522?casa_token=aN-o_DU8eBUAAAAA:6P_r1RHsSFg45jMotGWHIFI4Sewc-2t-Z1M3jJlYxmKS_Vw6s6uc8mXspHOGwQOJRRI8_xuG4Q   As always, a huge thanks to GENUS Palaeosciences for supporting this podcast. 

Dr Kimberley Chapelle is a postdoctoral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. As a palaeontologist, her work involves CT scanning dinosaurs! A few hours after we recorded this podcast, Kimi's Kimi Chapelle's research on Massospondylus dinosaur embryos made the Editor's choice list for Nature's Scientific Reports. Her first paper can be found here: https://peerj.com/articles/4224/ And her Google Scholar profile, for more recent papers here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TEozzlcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao   Huge thanks to GENUS Palaeosciences for funding this podcast. 

Dr Jason Werbeloff is one of the more unconventional guests on this podcast. He has a PhD in philosophy, but the majority of his publications have been in science fiction:  https://www.amazon.com/Jason-Werbeloff/e/B00FOXU2OC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share He also co-runs his own podcast, Brain in a Vat, you can listen here:  https://www.youtube.com/c/BraininaVat   Huge thanks to GENUS Palaeosciences for funding this podcast. 

Annabel Fenton is an MA student in Urban Geography exploring the experiences of domestic workers in Johannesburg's northern suburbs. Her first publication is from her Honours research.  Her first paper can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-019-09384-2   Many thanks to the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Palaeoscience for supporting this podcast.

Mauro Lourenco is currently pursuing a PhD exploring the palaeoenvironmental record and development of peat in the Angolan Highlands, which form the source waters of the Okavango Delta. His Masters, and first paper, were on a quite different topic.  Mauro's first paper can be found here: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/wsa/article/view/204525 Many thanks to the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Palaeoscience for funding this podcast. 

In this first episode of Revise, Rebut & Resubmit I interview Dr Sarah Roffe, a postdoctoral fellow at the Evolutionary Studies Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand.    Sarah's first paper can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.2019.1573151 Her full Google Scholar profile can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lmCc9bkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao   Huge thanks to the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeoscience for funding this podcast.