Posted in media on 31 October 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Environmental biology a hot subject,” by Grace Chua.
The Straits Times, 31 Oct 2009
NUS, NTU to offer more courses in recognition of field’s growing value
ENVIRONMENTAL biology is making a comeback here as well as worldwide, as universities recognise the discipline’s role in the study of climate change and environmental issues like pollution.
Both the National University of [...]
Posted in fun, hons on 30 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yes, the ruckus this past week is caused by Marine Lab's Lynette Loke's seawall project. Construction materials have been appearing outside the Frog Lab and over time, a mini-seawall factory appeared. Lynette told me another 180 tiles would arrive this evening.
But she has found help – the handy kungfu hands of a botanist no [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
N. Puniamoorthy, M. R. B. Ismail, D. S. H. Tan & R. Meier 2009, “From kissing to belly stridulation: comparative analysis reveals surprising diversity, rapid evolution, and much homoplasy in the mating behaviour of 27 species of sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae).” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 2146-2156.
(Careful of impressionable minds looking [...]
Posted in news, people on 27 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Paul Chen from the Systematics and Ecology Lab on being awarded the President’s Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to candidates who show exceptional promise or accomplishment in research. Only a number of Ph.D. research students are selected each semester by the University for the award.
Paul with his honors poster on stidulatory behaviour [...]
Posted in field trip, fun, gradstudent on 22 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Enoka is roughing it out in the field in Sri Lanka doing her field work. During one IM conversation – she bouncing around in a truck with a flashlight in her mouth and me comfortably at home, I persuaded her to send me this.
So now for a glimpse of “a day in the life” of [...]
Posted in job on 22 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research Assistant/Technical Support Officer opportunities with the Department of Biological Sciences, NUS and the Public Utilities Board, PUB.
As Singapore is one of most water-scarce countries in the world, water management is critical. The Public Utilities Board recently commissioned the National University of Singapore’s Department of Biological Sciences to develop a lentic macro-invertebrate biotic index [...]
Posted in news, people on 12 October 2009 | 7 Comments »
Just received some marvelous news; congratulations, Gwynne!
Gwynne “Don’t trash my planet” LimPhoto by Nalini Puniamoorthy
Congratulations to Gwynne Shimin Lim from the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory on winning an International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. Her award allows her to pursue a Ph.D. in Science, Technology and Engineering at a leading US university. The fellowship comes with [...]
Posted in article on 9 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Corlett is a co-author in Hahs et al., 2009. A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas. Ecology Letters 12, DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01372.x
Abstract – “… We compiled plant extinction rate data for 22 cities around the world. Two-thirds of the variation in plant extinction rates was explained by a combination of the city’s [...]
Posted in students, teaching on 7 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our new, second-year ecology course, LSM2251, had students visit the Labrador Rocky Shore to study the flora, fauna and zonation there. It was nice leading an evening trip once again and to the rocky shore there. E-learning week helped as students did not have to rush from a previous lecture!
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Posted in fun, news on 7 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WHY is he so happy?
Update, 09 Oct 2009:
Front Panel
Back panel
Sam Howard explains,
“The back panel is Rhacophorus pardalis from a photo Dr Bickford took and has (sort of inadvertantly) become the lab emblem. The front panel is a regional map showing gross predictors of the effect of climate change on herpetofaunal species over the next 50(ish) [...]
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