Highlights

From 10 November 2019 to 16 November 2019, our SJINML Outreach and Education team hosted youths from Asia at the STEP Environment Camp 2019. This year, we had 92 participants from Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam participating in various activities to learn about ‘Zero Waste’ in a week-long camp. Students had the opportunities to interact with leading researchers working in areas of marine plastic pollution, engineering of aerogels, and circular economy, as well as hands-on field work within Singapore’s unique habitats to investigate the impacts of marine debris.

Dr Neo Mei Lin, a Research Fellow from St John’s Island National Marine Laboratory and the Tropical Marine Science Institute, was recently featured in the National University of Singapore’s The Alumnus magazine!

Researchers from St John’s Island National Marine Lab and the Tropical Marine Science Institute, Dr Sandric Leong and Ms Emily Curren are in the news once again for their research! The full story can be found here: https://www.asianscientist.com/2019/02/in-the-lab/toxic-bacteria-microplastics-ocean-pollution/.

Today – Wednesday 22nd May – is the International Day of Biological Diversity 2019. This year’s theme is “Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health”. You can find more information about IDB and the Convention on Biodiversity at their website, https://www.cbd.int/idb/.

Many Singaporeans profess to live to eat, and one of the most frequent questions we get during our nature guided walks around St John’s Island is “this one eh sai jiak bo?” (can this be eaten?).