Background on Dr Eckart Schumann: 1967 to 1968: Research Officer in the National Physical Research Laboratory (NPRL), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 1969 to 1978: Research Officer in the Physical Oceanography Division of the NPRL, CSIR 1978 to 1985: Head of the Physical Oceanography Division of the National Research Institute for Oceanology (NRIO), CSIR. Alternate to the Director, Marine Sciences 1985 to 2000: Senior Lecturer and then Acting Head of Department of Oceanography, University of Port Elizabeth (now NMU). Transferred to the Department of Geology in 1994. Retired, 2000 2000 to present: Research Associate, Department of Earth Sciences, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (previously University of Port Elizabeth) 2000 to present: Private Consultant
