Maloti DrakensbergHP

CWRR Staff - Member

Dr Stefanie Schütte

Stefanie Schütte

Position:                                Researcher

Discipline:                             Hydrology

Centre:                                   Centre for Water Resources Research (CWRR)

School:                                   School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Campus:                                 Agriculture Campus

Room no./Building:              Room 338 Rabie Saunders Building

Telephone:                             +27 82 488 6712

Email:                                      Schuttes@ukzn.ac.za

 

Biography 

Stefanie worked as an Assistant at Reutlingen University, Germany from 1992. In 1994 she took up a job offer in South Africa as Dyehouse Laboratory Manager. In 1997 she moved into the chemical industry and held the positions of Technical Sales Engineer and Business Unit Manager. In 2003, Stefanie left full time employment to raise a family. During that time she started a Conservancy Association, got involved with indigenous landscaping and alien plant eradication. She joined UKZN in 2011 and worked on various research projects since.

Qualifications

PhD Bioengineering Systems (UKZN, 2020)

MSc Hydrology (UKZN, 2013)

Higher National Certificate: Horticulture (UNISA, 2004)

Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) Chemie (Reutlingen University, Germany, 1993); SAQA equivalent: Bachelor of Technology: Chemistry (Honours)

Current Research Projects

Stefanie currently works on various externally funded research projects. Her focus is on modelling national water flows in South Africa, water accounting and developing databases of soil hydrological properties.

Recently Completed Projects (2020-23)

  • WRC Project No. K5/2833/1&2 ‘A National Assessment of Potential Climate Change Impacts on the Hydrological Yield of Different Hydro-Climatic Zones of South Africa’.
  • WRC Project No. 2560/1/21 ‘Modelling of Water Flows with Change in Land Management in Selected River Catchments’.

Hobbies and Interests

Horse riding

Yoga

Reading

Gardening

Five recent publications

  • Schütte, S, Schulze, RE and Scholes, M, 2021. Impacts of soil carbon on hydrological responses – A sensitivity study of scenarios across diverse climatic zones in South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 117(5-6), pp.1-9. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2021/8118
  • Schulze, RE and Schütte, S, 2020. Mapping soil organic carbon at a terrain unit resolution across South Africa. Geoderma 373:114447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114447
  • Schulze, RE, Schütte, S, 2019. Update of potential climate change impacts on relevant water resources related issues in the Umgeni and surrounding catchments using outputs from recent global climate models as inputs to appropriate hydrological models. Report to Umgeni Water, Pietermaritzburg.
  • Schütte, S and Schulze, RE, 2017. Projected impacts of urbanisation on hydrological resource flows: A case study within the uMngeni Catchment, South Africa. Journal of Environmental Management, 196: 527-543.
  • Schulze, RE (ed.), 2017. Handbook for Farmers, Officials and Other Stakeholders on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector within South Africa. Department of Agriculture. Stefanie contributed to 17 Chapters.