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 Claire took up her position as a candidate researcher in the Climate Change Group of CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment in July 2009.
Claire studied a Bachelor of Environmental Science at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), majoring in Zoology and Geography. In 2008 she completed an Honours degree (with distinction) in Geography at Wits. Her research project coupled an ecosystem function model with downscaled climate change information in order to assess the impacts of climate change on two sites in the Kruger National Park - Skukuza and Satara.
Claire then completed an internship at AWARD (Association for Water and Rural Development), a non-governmental organisation based in the Lowveld region of South Africa. She was involved in a community-based project that was assessing the sustainability of local subsistence farming in a wetland system.
Some of her other research interests include the impacts of global environmental change on South African landscapes, conservation biogeography and species viability assessments, food security and land-cover change.
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