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UP Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

Published: 14 July 2025
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UP Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

UP Postdoctoral Fellowships for recent doctoral graduates from UP or any other university. Two years, renewal subject to satisfactory progress.

 UP Co-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships for recent doctoral graduates from UP or any other university. Two years, renewal subject to satisfactory progress.

VALUE

R250 000 per year for UP PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships

R125 000 per year for the UP Co-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship (The supervisor must contribute at least R125 000 per year for two years)

The UP Postdoctoral Constitution gives more details about the conditions of postdoctoral fellowships at UP. The application form and detailed information on the call can also be obtained from Ms Mpho Maithufi via email: [email protected]

The deadline for submission of applications to the Faculties is 25 August 2025.

Deadline for Faculties to submit only recommended and ranked applications to the Department of Research and Innovation is 19 September 2025.

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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NO VA EMS OBSD

Published: 14 July 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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