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Professor Bryan Davies (9 November 1945–2 July 2015)

Professor Bryan Davies (9 November 1945–2 July 2015) African Journal of Aquatic Science 2015, 40(4): 449 Copyright © NISC (Pty) Ltd Printed in South Africa — All rights reserved AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE ISSN 1608-5914 EISSN 1727-9364 http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2015.1125634 Obituary Professor Bryan Davies (9 November 1945–2 July 2015) CG (Tally) Palmer Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa e-mail: tally.palmer@ru.ac.za Professor Bryan Davies died suddenly and unexpectedly environmental flows now embedded in the South African in July 2015, leaving both a great gap and a rich memory- National Water Act. bank in the freshwater ecological community. Bryan was a An excellent scientist, Bryan was never afraid to write flamboyant, energetic and passionate freshwater ecologist and speak passionately about protecting the environ- who made a tremendous contribution to South African ment. He frequently strayed from ‘objectivity’ into emotive freshwater science and conservation. advocacy, and the book he wrote with Jenny Day – In the 1980s Bryan worked on estuaries – on Swartvlei Vanishing Waters – remains a standard freshwater ecology Lake and the Kowie and Bushmans River estuaries. text for southern Africa. He came to South Africa, via Mozambique, with experi- As Bryan’s first postgraduate student at Rhodes ence from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Journal of Aquatic Science Taylor & Francis

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African Journal of Aquatic Science 2015, 40(4): 449 Copyright © NISC (Pty) Ltd Printed in South Africa — All rights reserved AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE ISSN 1608-5914 EISSN 1727-9364 http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2015.1125634 Obituary Professor Bryan Davies (9 November 1945–2 July 2015) CG (Tally) Palmer Unilever Centre for Environmental Water Quality, Institute for Water Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa e-mail: tally.palmer@ru.ac.za Professor Bryan Davies died suddenly and unexpectedly environmental flows now embedded in the South African in July 2015, leaving both a great gap and a rich memory- National Water Act. bank in the freshwater ecological community. Bryan was a An excellent scientist, Bryan was never afraid to write flamboyant, energetic and passionate freshwater ecologist and speak passionately about protecting the environ- who made a tremendous contribution to South African ment. He frequently strayed from ‘objectivity’ into emotive freshwater science and conservation. advocacy, and the book he wrote with Jenny Day – In the 1980s Bryan worked on estuaries – on Swartvlei Vanishing Waters – remains a standard freshwater ecology Lake and the Kowie and Bushmans River estuaries. text for southern Africa. He came to South Africa, via Mozambique, with experi- As Bryan’s first postgraduate student at Rhodes ence from

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