Spiderman’s gone!

The spiderman is ballooning off! What i mean is, Dr Li Daiqin will be leaving for his year long sabbatical come 1st Sept. He’ll be dropping on a dragline to the Down Under, as well as making his way to more temperate regions. So who says spiders can’t migrate?
Here’s a lab photo to commemorate the [...]

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Bickford on amphibian extinctions

“Don’t let these amphibians croak their last,” by Grace Chua. The Straits Times, 20 Aug 2008.
Up to half of all amphibian species could become extinct
THAT croaky chorus you hear coming from drains at dusk could belong to one of Singapore’s most common amphibians – the Asian toad or the banded bullfrog.
The toad has a burpy [...]

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Chou Loke Ming – envisioning a coral paradise in Singapore by 2018

Prof Chou speaking at IYOR Singapore, 8th August 2008
Professor Chou Loke Ming, a marine biologist with the National University of Singapore (NUS) said a concerted effort made now by the Government, business sector and those in civil society can reverse current trends towards extinction.
Speaking last Saturday at the second International Year of the Reef (IYOR2008) [...]

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Richard Corlett is back in town!

Richard Corlett was part of the Department of Botany up to 1987 when he left for Hong Kong. He’s now back in Singapore as a professor with the Department of Biological Science, his old hunting ground. He’s all set for a big bang with his seminar on seed dispersal this Friday.
It’ll probably be standing room [...]

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Where is David Bickford?

Where has the frogman gone?.

He used to be a friendly face in the corridors of Block S2 when he suddenly vanished. Rumour had it he was banished to the Cold Palace in Block S15 where he is setting up shop.
So yes, it’s true – he has spanking new digs and I accosted Mingko one [...]

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Are we really recycling?

Some NUSSU SAVE undergrads just approached me about showing this video on improving our recycling effort in NUS to our undergrads during our orientation lectures. Click the link to take a look.
They explained the strange noise we hear at the beginning is due to some other activity that was going on nearby and it’d be [...]

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Marine Bio Lab super cleanup

In case you still don’t know what was the smell that dominated the S1 & S2 building at 31/07/2008 (Thursday), it was coming from the fridge of the field store!
20+ people joined the Marine Bio Lab’s SUPER cleanup yesterday, and successfully tidied up the lab, the (ultra stinky) field store and the dive store! Kudos [...]

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