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<p>SAEON is a research facility that establishes and maintains
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<p>Climate change, global change, environmental change, research,
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environmental education, rural sociology, environmental information
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freshwater, soils, sediments, ocean, coast, mountains.</p>
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href="http://www.saeon.ac.za/front-page/document_view?None&month:int=11&year:int=2007&orig_query=None"
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rel="nofollow" title="Previous month">«</a></th>
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<th colspan="5">December 2007</th>
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<th id="calendar-next"><a
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rel="nofollow" title="Next month">»</a></th>
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<td>19</td>
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<td>20</td>
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<td>21</td>
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<td>22</td>
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<td>25</td>
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|
<td>26</td>
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|
<td>27</td>
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<td>28</td>
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<td>29</td>
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|
<td>30</td>
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<td>31</td>
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
href="http://www.saeon.ac.za/summit/" class="white"><img
|
|
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|
src="images-1/imagesummitscr.jpg" alt="summit website"></a></td>
|
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|
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<tr>
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|
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|
<td height="38" valign="top">
|
|
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|
<p><em>Visit the <a
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|
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|
href="http://www.saeon.ac.za/summit/">SAEON Summit
|
|
964
|
website </a></em></p>
|
|
965
|
</td>
|
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|
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|
</tr>
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
</table>
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|
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|
<table bgcolor="#fafaf8" border="0" cellpadding="1"
|
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|
cellspacing="1">
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|
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|
<td height="73" valign="top"><a
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|
href="http://www.saeon.ac.za/students/"><img
|
|
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|
src="images-1/imagestudentweb.jpg" alt="students websit"
|
|
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|
class="white"></a></td>
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|
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|
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|
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|
<p><em>Visit the <a
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|
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|
href="http://www.saeon.ac.za/students">SAEON Graduate
|
|
984
|
Students' Network website</a></em></p>
|
|
985
|
</td>
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|
</table>
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|
<table bgcolor="#fafaf8" border="0" cellpadding="1"
|
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|
cellspacing="1">
|
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|
<tbody>
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|
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|
<tr>
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|
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|
<td height="73" valign="top"><a
|
|
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|
href="http://www.saeon.ac.za/eNewsletter/Online/2007/november"><img
|
|
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|
src="images-1/nov-2007.jpg" alt="newsletter image"
|
|
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|
class="white"></a></td>
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|
</tr>
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|
<tr>
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|
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<td height="58" valign="top">
|
|
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|
<p><em>Read the latest <a
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|
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|
href="http://www.saeon.ac.za/eNewsletter/Online/2007/november">SAEON
|
|
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|
eNewsletter</a></em></p>
|
|
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|
</td>
|
|
1005
|
|
|
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|
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|
</tbody>
|
|
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|
</table>
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|
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<h3>SAEON vision</h3>
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|
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|
<p>A sustained, co-ordinated, responsive and comprehensive
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|
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|
South African Earth observation network that delivers long-term
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|
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reliable data for scientific research and informs decision-making
|
|
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for a knowledge society and improved quality of life.</p>
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Plone is powered by the combined forces of Zope and CMF, two absolutely
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are based on the best programming language in the world - Python
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(http://www.python.org). We owe these guys a lot, thanks for making Plone
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