Ramontsheng Rapolaki- Website Manager

Ramontsheng, a MasterCard Foundation Scholar, is a SAEON Professional Development Programme (PDP) PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Chris Reason and Dr. Ross Blamey in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and Prof. Juliet Hermes of SAEON’s Egagasini Node. His main interests within the field of oceanography are broadly in air-sea interaction, atmospheric numerical modelling and physical oceanography.  He is particularly interested in severe weather events over southern Africa and their associated impacts on rainfall and droughts. Ramontsheng’s PhD thesis, entitled “A Lagrangian analysis of atmospheric moisture transport leading to extreme precipitation over south-eastern Africa” focuses generally, on understanding nature of severe rainfall events over the Limpopo River Basin using numerical methods. In his spare time, Ramontsheng mentors high school learners and undergraduate students at UCT.