Courses & Awards

Courses Completed

2023 - SSI Open Water Diver
2021 - ELSIVIER: Building trust and engagement in peer review
2021 - Organization for Tropical Studies: Bioacoustic Analysis in R
2020 - ESRI: Python for everyone
2020 - ESRI: Getting Started with Spatial Analysis
2020 - Udemy: Conflict Resolution and Peace Building
2017 - 25 November - 17 December. AfricanBats Bat Fieldworker's Course
2017 - 31 October - 01 November. AIA: Project Management
2017 - 2 - 6 October 2017. AfricanBats Introduction to bat biology, ecology, conservation and identification
2017- 17 - 19 July. AIA: Excel Analytics Course - Beginner to Advanced
2016 - 28 June - 15 July. uMkuze Nature Reserve: Distance Sampling
2015 - ESRI: Learning ArcGIS for Desktop

University of Pretoria Postgraduate Doctoral Bursary (2018 - 2020)
National Research Foundation Doctoral Innovation Scholarship (2018 - 2020)
Rufford Small Grant (2018) ( see https://www.rufford.org/projects/mariette-estelle-pretorius/land-use-change-effects-on-the-space-use-of-cave-dwelling-bat-assemblages/)
University of the Witwatersrand Postgraduate Merit Award (2015 - 2016)
Certificate of First Class for exceptional academic achievement (2015)
University Entrance Scholarship (2012)