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DR. JANI TANZIL

Dr. Jani Tanzil

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, FACILITY DIRECTOR

jani.tanzil@nus.edu.sg

Education:

Ph.D. in Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013)
M.Sc. in Tropical Coastal Management, Newcastle University, United Kingdom (2007)
B.Sc. in Biology, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2003)

Research Interests:

Coastal environment and ecosystem dynamics
Coral sclerochronology and geochemistry to reconstruct past coral condition and reef environment
Climate change and environment impacts on coral reefs
Developing locally-relevant environmental response models for corals
Coral resilience and adaptation

Projects:

2019–2020: "Marine plants as mitigators of ocean acidification". Role: Co-PI
2019–2020: "Beyond the Horizon: An Integrated Concept Plan for St John’s Island". Role: PI
2018–2020: "Development of an adaptive framework for assessing risk to environmental stress: an energetics approach to safeguarding Singapore’s corals". Role: PI
2019–2021: "Environmental history of coral reefs in Singapore". Role: PI
2019–2021: "Humic acids in coral skeletons: developing a new proxy to estimate past seawater carbon concentrations". Role: Collaborator
2018–2021: "Spatial and temporal distribution of cryptobenthic and postlarval reef fishes". Role: Collaborator
2017–2018: "Bioavailable concentrations and sources of trace metals in targeted sites in Singapore coastal water, the Malacca Straits and the southern South China Sea". Role: Co-PI
2020-2025 : "Marine Environment Sensing Network". Role: PI
2020-2023: "Advancing mariculture of Indo-Pacific species for research, conservation, and sustainable aquarium trade". Role: Co-PI
2020-2021: "An Enhanced Bathymetry for Oceanographic Research and Applications". Role: Co-PI

Selected Publications:

Chen ML, Carrasco G, Park E, Morgan M, Tay HX, Tanzil JTI, Ooi SK, Feng JW, Zhou K, Boyle EA (In Review) Monsoonal variations of lead (Pb) in coastal waters around Singapore. Marine Chemistry

Kaushal N, Sanwlani N, Tanzil JTI, Cherukuru N, Sahar S, Müller M, Mujahid A, Lee JN, Goodkin NF, Martin P (In Review) Coral skeletal luminescence records changes in terrestrial chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in tropical coastal waters. Geophysical Research Letters

Moynihan MA, Amini S, Goodkin NF, Tanzil JTI, Chua I, Fabbro GN, Fan Ty-Y, Schmidt DN, Miserez A (In Review) Environmental impact on the mechanical properties of Porites spp. corals. Coral Reefs

Wainwright BJ, Zahn GL, Afiq-Rosli L, Tanzil JTI, Huang D (2020) Host age is not a consistent predictor of microbial diversity in the coral Porites lutea. Scientific Reports 10: 14376

Kaushal N, Yang L, Martin P, Tanzil JTI, Lee JN, Goodkin NF (2020) Sub-annual fluorescence measurements of coral skeleton: relationship between skeletal luminescence and terrestrial humic-like substances. Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01959-x

Tanzil JTI, Ooi SK, Tay SHX, Ow YX, Clews E, Chua SC, Bolton A, Raghavan S, Liong SY (2020). Tropical Marine and Brackish Ecosystems. In Climate Change and Non-infectious Fish Disorders (Eds. Woo P, Iwami G). CAB International, UK.

Chen ML, Martin P, Goodkin N, Tanzil JTI, Murty S, Wiguna A (2019) An assessment of P speciation and P:Ca  proxy calibration in coral cores from  Singapore and Bali. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 267: 113–123.

Tanzil JTI, Goodkin NF, Sin TM, Chen ML, Fabbro GN, Boyle EA, Lee AC and Toh KB (2019) Multi-colony coral skeletal Ba/Ca from Singapore’s turbid urban reefs: relationship with contemporaneous in-situ seawater parameters. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 250: 191–208.

Majewski JM, Switzer AD, Meltzner AJ, Parham PR, Horton BP, Bradley S, Pile J, Chiang H-W, Wang X-F, Ng C-T, Tanzil JTI, Müller M, Mujahid A (2017) Relative sea level proxy records from fossil coral microatolls in Western Borneo, South China Sea: Sea-level stability around 7 ka and possible Holocene faulting. The Holocene, doi: doi.org/10.1177/0959683618777061

Carrasco G, Chen M, Boyle EA, Tanzil JTI, Zhou K, Goodkin NF (2017) An update of the Pb isotope inventory in post leaded-petrol Singapore environments. Environmental Pollution 17: 31947–4

Tanzil JTI, Ng PKA, Tey YQ, Tan HYB, Yun YE, Huang D. 2017. A preliminary characterization of Symbiodinium in common corals from Singapore. Singapore National Academy of Science journal COSMOS, doi: 10.1142/S0219607716500014

Tanzil JTI, Lee JN, Brown BE, Quax R, Kaandorp JA, Lough JA, Todd PA. 2016. Luminescence and density banding patterns in massive Porites corals around the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Southeast Asia. Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.10350

Cantarero S, Tanzil JTI, Goodkin N. 2016. Simultaneous analysis of Ba and Sr to Ca ratios in scleractinian corals by inductively coupled plasma optical emissions spectrometry. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, doi: 10.1002/lom3.10152

Guest JR, Low J, Tun K, Ng CM, Raingeard D, Cooper KE, Tanzil JTI, Todd PA, Toh TC, McDougald D, Chou LM, Steinberg PD. (2016) Coral community response to bleaching on a highly urbanised reef. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep20717

Tanzil JTI, Brown BE, Dunne RP, Lee JN, Kaandorp JA, Todd PA (2013) Regional decline in growth rates of massive Porites corals in Southeast Asia. Global Change Biology 10: 3011–3023.

Tanzil JTI (2012) Bleaching susceptibility and growth characteristics of Porites lutea from the Andaman Sea, south Thailand. PMBC Research Bulletin 71: 49–56.

Tanzil JTI, Brown BE, Tudhope S, Dunne RP (2009) Decline in skeletal growth of the coral Porites lutea from the Andaman Sea, South Thailand between 1984 and 2005. Coral Reefs 28: 519 – 528

Loh TL, JTI Tanzil, LM Chou (2006) Preliminary study of community development and scleractinian recruitment on fibreglass artificial reef units in the sedimented waters of Singapore. Aquatic Conservation: Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems 16: 61 – 76