Current version: 2023-05-11 09:47
Michael John SILBERBAUER
orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-4149Retired from the Resource Quality Information Services directorate's Resource Quality Information group (formerly Resource Quality Services' Information Systems Maintenance and Development, formerly the Institute for Water Quality Studies' Catchment Studies / Applications Development group).
- Work experience 2000-2020
- Water resource information visualisation.
- Applying R, ArcGIS, Arc/Info and other information systems to the mapping of water quality (e.g. using Google Earth to map water quality monitoring sites).
- Supporting Resource Quality projects, mainly the National Chemical, Eutrophication, Microbial and Ecosystem Health programmes.
- Development of applications to analyse water quality and flow data on the South African national databases. This includes calculation of Sustainable Development Goal 6.3.2 indicators.
- Development of a standardised national river coverage at the 1:500 000 scale.
- Stood in as manager of the Resource Quality Information subdirectorate, 2016-2020.
- 1990-2000
- Interpretation of satellite images to extract irrigated land.
- Assessment of the extent of informal urban settlements and their effect on water quality.
- Licensing and registration forms for the 1998 Water Act.
- A Fortran-based mapping application to provide transparent overlays for Gauss Conform topographical maps with satellite-derived data (pre-GIS).
- 1985-1989 UCT
- Department of Zoology Freshwater Research Unit (FRU): Counting zooplankton species from Namibian impoundments.
- Department of Applied Mathematics: Whale research including the development of a mapping system for displaying International Whaling Commission research ship tracks and whale sightings along the Antarctic ice shelf.
- FRU: Developing a relational database of Western Cape wetland data.
- 1977-1984 HRI
- Hydrological Research Institute (which became the Institute for Water Quality Studies, then Resource Quality Services, later Resource Quality Information Services):
- Hydrologist in sediment lab and limnology section.
- Data specialist supporting application of water quality models.
