Tamaryn Morris

Agulhas System Climate Array (ASCA) Coordinator at the Egagasini Node. In this role, Tammy is overseeing the implementation of the ASCA deep-sea mooring deployments off the east coast of South Africa into the Agulhas Current for the duration of the project (2015 – 2019). Tammy is also the representative for South Africa on the Argo Steering Team and is working towards increasing Argo deployments in the oceans around South Africa, while raising awareness of the Argo program through capacity development at both secondary and tertiary level education. Tammy completed her MTech in Physical Oceanography at CPUTin 2009 and is currently working towards her PhD in Physical Oceanography at UCT. Her research topics looks at resolving mesoscale eddy dynamics of the southern Mozambique Channel using Argo float technology. Tammy’s research interests include mesoscale eddies, Agulhas Current, oceanographic instrumentation (both in situ and autonomous) and deep ocean mooring arrays. Tammy also supervises CPUT technical students at National Diploma and BTech level, and lectures for CPUT and UCT. She is also involved with the OceanTeacher Global Academy in Oostende, Belgium and its Regional Training Centre in Grahamstown, developing courses and training young researchers in marine science topics (most notably Oceanographic Instrumentation).