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Raffles Museum Internship: Seminar on Human-Orangutan conflict management
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Diving behind the scenes with the crew at Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. Wednesday, 16 November 2011. Seminar on Human-Orangutan conflict management. Panut Hadisiswoyo, the Principle Conservationist and Founding Director of the Orangutan Information Centre is here in Singapore and he came down to NUS to give a talk on the Human-Orangutan conflict mitigation program that he initiated in Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP), Sumatra, Indonesia earlier today! Muntjac, Crested Serpent Eagle, Golden C...
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Bleach Watch Singapore: What is coral bleaching?
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Looking out for Singapore's living reefs. What is coral bleaching? What is coral bleaching? Corals bleach when they are stressed. The bleached coral on the left was turned upside down! Obviously a stressful position for a colony of animals that rely on tiny little plants inside their bodies to make food from sunlight. The overturned hard coral has turned white! A coral colony may be partially bleached, with white portions on only parts of the colony. Or a colony can be completely bleached. When there is ...
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Bleach Watch Singapore: July 2012
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Looking out for Singapore's living reefs. What is coral bleaching? Major upgrades in NOAA’s global coral bleaching prediction and monitoring. NOAA announced a major advance in predicting mass coral bleaching, providing the probability of bleaching up to four months ahead. Using the new seasonal ecological forecast system, NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch. Does not anticipate any large scale coral bleaching events in the Northern Hemisphere through October 2012. Posted by Ria Tan. Links to this post. Coral reefs o...
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Bleach Watch Singapore: July 2014
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Looking out for Singapore's living reefs. What is coral bleaching? Update on coral bleaching at Sultan Shoal (Jul 2014). The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. MPA) has been relocating corals at Sultan Shoal as part of their preventive measures to protect the corals from the development works for the future Tuas Terminal and DHI was engaged to carry out the relocation works. Recently, MPA has updated its NGO partners on the observations of coral bleaching at Sultan Shoal. Posted by Ria Tan. Feed M...
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Bleach Watch Singapore: August 2010
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Looking out for Singapore's living reefs. What is coral bleaching? Iconic coral species the most vulnerable to bleaching. Evan Schwarten AAP Sydney Morning Herald. 17 Aug 10;. The Great Barrier Reefs dominant coral species are among the most vulnerable to the effects of global warming, a new study has found. A groundbreaking study into the immunity of coral species has found the iconic Acroporidae family to be among the most susceptible to outbreaks of disease or bleaching. Posted by Ria Tan. Visiting ou...
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Bleach Watch Singapore: June 2010
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Looking out for Singapore's living reefs. What is coral bleaching? Coral bleaching events elsewhere. Today, The Star. Featured a report of extensive coral bleaching at Tioman. 8220;The cabbage corals, brain corals and staghorn corals have turned white,” said Kids Scuba director and scuba educator Syed Abdul Rahman Syed Hassan. Posted by Ria Tan. Links to this post. Near-real-time bleach watch satellite information from NOAA. NOAAs Coral Reef Watch. Posted by Ria Tan. Links to this post. Posted by Ria Tan.
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Pulau Ubin Stories: January 2010
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Stories, old and new, about Pulau Ubin, Singapore. Red tide affecting Pulau Ubin. Receive updates through the Ubin Stories mailing list. Sunday, January 03, 2010. Grant Pereira's GVN Green House. Is now known as 34 Ubin House. It's care and charge has now been taken over by the Nature Society (Singapore) who has taken over the temporary occupation license (TOL) with SLA. Use of the house is still currently undetermined. Will update further when more is known. Saturday, January 02, 2010. As we know, large...
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Raffles Museum Internship: October 2011
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Diving behind the scenes with the crew at Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. Friday, 14 October 2011. New blood (for Siva to tekan) at the Raffles Museum. It's been 4 years since the last post! Nonetheless, I'm here to provide new posts on What Happens As An Intern at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. I have actually been "intern-ing" under Siva for a few months now, for the International Coastal Cleanup (ICCS). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Chek Jawa Mortality and Recruitment Project.
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STAR TRACKERS: Cocoa
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Saturday, August 23, 2008. Adopted by Jane Lau. On 9 August 2008. First encountered at Cyrene Reef on 23 June 2008. Coordinates: 1º 15.257' N, 103º 45.108' E. Minor radius: 28 mm. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Monitoring the body growth, survivorship, habitat utilization and movement patterns of knobbly seastar ( Protoreaster nodosus. Individuals at marine habitats in Singapore. Send your sightings to chimck@yahoo.com. KNOW, LOVE, SAVE Our Seastars". What are knobbly seastars? How to track seastars?
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STAR TRACKERS: THINGS TO DO
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. The following is the list of things you need to do when you spotted a knobbly seastar. Note: Click on figure for a larger image. 1 Take a photograph. First, determine the location of the madreporite (Figure 1). Figure 1. Location of the madreporite in a knobbly seastar. Then, orientate the seastar such that the side with the madreporite is nearest to you compared to the other sides (Figure 2). Figure 3. Point camera perpendicularly to the aboral side of the seastar and shoot.
