Mark Maboeta Email & Phone Number | I completed my PhD in 2000 (Stellenbosch University) focussing on soil ecotoxicology and using earthworms as bioindicators; this is still my main research focus. Based on my outputs in the field of soil and earthworm ecotoxicology, I have considerable international recognition. This is reflected by my collaboration with researchers from Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom. I also head a soil ecotoxicology research group in southern Africa. The latter fact was the inspiration for an overview published in Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (Impact Factor 7+) that focused on the threats of heavy metals to plants and soil life in southern Africa. In South Africa, I am the leading scientist with regards to soil and earthworm ecotoxicology and internationally, I rate myself as a researcher with considerable recognition. Besides my focus on quantitative research, I’m also focussing on the interaction between my research projects, government (policy) and industry. Environmental toxicology (human health as endpoint) and ecotoxicology (restricted to ecological endpoints) are typically depicted as the interactions between chemicals, the environment and organisms. Soil is often just seen as a commodity in terms of a space to cultivate crops or build houses, etc. It is, however, a living entity that plays an important role in food security and ecosystem services that faces many threats e.g. climate change, pollution and rising population. Determining the effects of contaminants on soil is extremely important but often neglected even though soil is a non-renewable resource that impacts the lives of people, animals and plants. Most effort (scientific and financial) is, however, focussed on water due to it being a scarce resource, especially in a water-scarce country like South Africa. Ecotoxicological risk assessments either follow a predictive approach (to derive safe levels of chemicals introduced into the environment) or a diagnostic approach (assess the effects of chemicals in the case of past pollution). My research focuses mainly on the latter in which I assess the effects of mining and agriculture on the soil environment with a specific focus on metals as contaminants. In doing this, it is possible to “diagnose” the health of these soils collected from contaminated sites.

Mark Maboeta

I completed my PhD in 2000 (Stellenbosch University) focussing on soil ecotoxicology and using earth...
South Africa

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Mark Maboeta’s Current Industry North West University Noordwes Universiteit

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North West University Noordwes Universiteit

Full Professor

2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z - Present

North West University

Associate Professor

2008-01-01T00:00:00.000Z - 2014-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Potchefstroom University

Post-Doctoral Fellow

2001-01-01T00:00:00.000Z - 2002-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

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Mark Maboeta is a I completed my PhD in 2000 (Stellenbosch University) focussing on soil ecotoxicology and using earthworms as bioindicators; this is still my main research focus. Based on my outputs in the field of soil and earthworm ecotoxicology, I have considerable international recognition. This is reflected by my collaboration with researchers from Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom. I also head a soil ecotoxicology research group in southern Africa. The latter fact was the inspiration for an overview published in Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (Impact Factor 7+) that focused on the threats of heavy metals to plants and soil life in southern Africa. In South Africa, I am the leading scientist with regards to soil and earthworm ecotoxicology and internationally, I rate myself as a researcher with considerable recognition. Besides my focus on quantitative research, I’m also focussing on the interaction between my research projects, government (policy) and industry. Environmental toxicology (human health as endpoint) and ecotoxicology (restricted to ecological endpoints) are typically depicted as the interactions between chemicals, the environment and organisms. Soil is often just seen as a commodity in terms of a space to cultivate crops or build houses, etc. It is, however, a living entity that plays an important role in food security and ecosystem services that faces many threats e.g. climate change, pollution and rising population. Determining the effects of contaminants on soil is extremely important but often neglected even though soil is a non-renewable resource that impacts the lives of people, animals and plants. Most effort (scientific and financial) is, however, focussed on water due to it being a scarce resource, especially in a water-scarce country like South Africa. Ecotoxicological risk assessments either follow a predictive approach (to derive safe levels of chemicals introduced into the environment) or a diagnostic approach (assess the effects of chemicals in the case of past pollution). My research focuses mainly on the latter in which I assess the effects of mining and agriculture on the soil environment with a specific focus on metals as contaminants. In doing this, it is possible to “diagnose” the health of these soils collected from contaminated sites.

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