Alumni

2023/24

• Honours – Lee Zhi Jun, Carmine: “3D-printed corals enhance wave-energy dissipation provided by submerged breakwaters”

• Honours – Yap Yan Zhi: “Effects of slope angle on health, growth, and survival of intertidally transplanted corals”

• Honours – Goo Jia Yi Joshua Edward: “Singapore’s coastal parks into the future: What does the public want, and can they change their minds?”

• 8MC UROPS – Su Yan Le: “Does construction material, installation depth, and topographical complexity influence the biodiversity and species assemblage on marine enhancement units?

• 4MC UROPS – Natasha Koh Binte Mohd Haiquel @ Koh Shii Huay: “Comparing the effectiveness of two types of Seawall biodiversity enhancement tiles”

2022/23

• Honours – Tammy Teong Kah Ler: "Marine bioreceptivity of green concretes"

• Honours – Yeow Jun Wei, Alric: “The effects of habitat complexity on reef fish diversity”

• Honours – Joel Tan: "Refuge preferences of gastropods on seawall tiles"

• Honours – Nicholas Mak Wei Jie: "Sexing methods for sea urchin Diadema setosum"

• 8MC UROPS – Yap Yan Zhi: “Could downwelling sediments have contributed to Pocilloporidae extirpations in Singapore?”

• 8MC UROPS – Sng Wen Xin: "Trophic transfer of microplastics on coral reefs"

• 4MC UROPS – Ong Fei: “Effects of two types of habitat enhancement tiles on species richness along seawall height”

• 4MC UROPS – Chan Man Sum: “Microplastic in tissues of fish from different trophic levels”

2021/22

• Honours – Chloe Tan Yun Yi: "Distribution of microplastics from seagrass beds to non-seagrass patches”

• Honours – Ng Ming Sheng: " First use of FloTR (flow-through resuspension) chambers to compare the effects of microplastics and sediments on the scleractinian coral species, Merulina ampliata”

• Honours – Rachel Mark: "Feeding preference of parrotfishes and their potential contribution in shaping seawall benthic assemblages in urbanised shorelines”

• Honours – Yen Li Peng: “The effect of microplastic size, seeding point and coral morphology on the deposition and trapping of microplastics”

• 8MC UROPS – Ong Xing Jie, Ophelia: “The effects of algae accumulation interventions on the survival of mangrove Avicennia spp. seedlings in planting pods at Chek Jawa, Singapore”

• 4MC UROPS – Yin Chuan: “Microplastic capture in marine algae – a flume study”

• 4MC UROPS – Teo Kate-Lyn: “Abundance of microplastics in Eco-engineering structures on Pulau Hantu, Singapore.

2020/21

• Honours – Ke En Tan: “Resource allocation towards sexual reproduction, growth and maintenance in mushroom corals on Singapore’s sedimented reefs”

• Honours – Shirlene Chiam Jia Hui: "Characterising intertidal urban waterways"

• Honours – Chee Haw Khaw Jonas: “Flow-Through Resuspension (FloTR) tank: A new ex-situ approach to recreating marine sedimentation conditions”

• Honours – Annie Chew: “coral microhabitats and their influences on the photo-physiological performance and microbial communities of intertidal Porites lutea”

• 4MC UROPS – Rachel Pek Xin Yi: “Quantifying coastal hardening with special reference to aquaculture hardening in Vietnam”

• 4MC UROPS – Nur Marina Chan Shi Min Alif Abdullah: “Tourism driven coastal hardening and its potential effects on marine biodiversity in Indonesia’s islands”

• 4MC UROPS – Teo Xue Shen: “Investigating the effects of coastal population and economic drivers and their linked relationships on the extent of coastal hardening in the Philippines”

• 4MC UROPS – Thang Hui Lin: “Comparing sessile and mobile seawall communities before and after installation of biodiversity enhancements”

2019/20

• Honours – Quek Zhiqin, Vanessa: “Interactions between macroalgae and the intertidal gastropod, nerita undata, on tropical seawalls”

• Honours – Yong Lei Xin: “Physiological and gene expression plasticity of a common intertidal coral, Dipsastraea lizardensis, in response to emersion stress”

• Honours (Yale NUS) – Mock Yong-Jie Aidan: “Mapping coastal hardening in Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei”

• 8MC UROPS –  Rachel Mark Yuen Yee: “The effect of shelter complexity on fish assemblages associated with seawalls”

• 8MC UROPS –  Ng Ming Sheng “Coral reef sediment profiles in relation to height off substrate”

• 8MC UROPS –  Yeo Jing Ying: “Predation on an intertidal gastropod, nerita undata, on tropical seawalls”

2018/19

• Honours – Denise Ong: "Thermal preference of marine snail Nerita undata in tropical intertidal habitats"

• Honours – Dillen Ng: "Importance of algal turfs for fish on seawalls"

• Honours – Lim Zi Wei: "Demographics of free-living fungiid corals in Singapore"

• Honours – Marcus Goh: "Effectiveness and interactive effects of different rock materials on colonising biota"

• Honours – Pang Hui En: "Exposure stress of corals on seawalls"

• Honours – Rachel Oh: "Meiofauna communities in turf algae on seawalls in Singapore"

• Honours – Shayne Yeo: "Effects of sediment on settlement of coral larvae"

• Honours – Tan Jit Yee: "The effect of stone coatings on the biodiversity recruitment of tropical seawalls"

• 4MC UROPS – Tang Yi En, Genevieve: “Responses of Cymodocea rotundata to increased nutrients and sediment burial at Tanjung Chek Jawa, Singapore”

2017/18

• Honours – Hannah Yeo: “Trophic interactions on equatorial artificial coastal defences”

• Honours – Seah Chun Ling Jovena: “Macroalgal density and predation risk interact to alter herbivory on an equatorial coral reef”

• Honours – Kathy Christina d/o Muniandy: “Seagrass restoration in Singapore: application of a transplantation framework using a novel technique”

• Honours – Goh Yi Le” “Coral assemblages of shallow reefs at Southern Islands of Singapore”

• Honours – Eunice Kong Yeun Leng: “Effects of shading on seagrass morphology and thermal optimal of productivity”

• 8MC UROPS – Hui Eng Pang: “Sediment-rejection efficiency of nine scleractinian coral species in Singapore”

• 8MC UROPS – Zi Wei Lim: “Allelopathic effects of different macroalgae on survival and settlement of Pocillopora acuta larvae”

• 8MC UROPS – Mia Sara Choo: "Population distribution and abundance of short-spined white sea urchin Salmacis sphraeroides from Singapore"

2016/17

• Honours – Amanda Lim Yue Han: “Aposematism in the pink warty sea cucumber, Cercodemas Anceps”

• Honours – Cheok Zi Yu: “Dispersal and establishment potential of seagrass vegetative fragments”

• Honours – Glendon Hong Ming Ong: “Seed banks in seagrass meadows in Singapore”

• Honours – Kong Man Jing: “Ecological review of photosymbiotic zooxanthellate bivalves”

• Honours – Ow Yong Wei Long: “Growth and survivorship of cultured juvenile fluted giant clam, Tridacna squamosa, transplanted on singapore’s coral reefs”

• Honours – Shelley Chan Hiang Ming: “Spatio-temporal approaches to characterizing thermal landscapes: a first look at tropical seawalls”

• Honours – Ng Kai Jun: “Epiphytes in seagrass meadows and their effect on seagrass photoperiod”

• Honours – Liu Xinlu: The effect of suspended sediments on the swimming behaviour of the calanoid copepod, Acartia tonsa  

• 4MC UROPS – Ang Ju hui (4MC): “Grazing pressure on intertidal hard substrates - exclusion experiments using stainless steel cages”

• 4MC UROPS – Ong Kai Lin (4MC):“Grazing pressure on intertidal hard substrates - exclusion experiments using anti-fouling paint”

• 4MC UROPS – Goh Yi Le (4MC): “Community analysis of corals exposed to air at low tide”

2015/16

• Honours – Fong Jia Min: “Diversity and diet of snails in seagrass meadows in Singapore”

• Honours – Jenny Fong: “Heterotrophy and photoacclimation among genotypes of cauliflower coral Pocillopora damicornis in low light environments”

• Honours – Darren Sim: “Aggregation in juvenile Tridacna squamosa: Implications for growth and predation risk”

• Honours – Tricia Poh Shi Min: “Dispersal and establishment potential of seagrass fragments”

• Honours – Sharifah Nadia Binte Syed Mohamad Hamid Alsagoff: “A tale of four cities: East Asia’s urban coral reefs”

• Honours – Tong Jian Wen Samantha: “Zoology and ecology of the heart clam”

• 4MC UROPS – Esther D/O Sivaprakasam: “How dolphins perceive shapes through echolocation”

• 4MC UROPS – Oh Kai En Rachel: “Intramodal association between non-identical Stimuli: Are associations retained in dolphins when stimuli are combined in novel combinations?”  

2014/15

• Honours – Tan Wen Ting: "Do Singapore’s seawalls host non-native marine molluscs?"

• Honours – Chester Gan: " Definition and functions of animal decoration; including an investigation of passive decoration in Clistocoeloma merguiense”

• Honours - Hazel Peh Huiqi: "Singapore’s seawalls: Biodiversity and public perception."

• 8MC UROPS - Tong Jia Wen Samantha: " Ecology of ectoparasitic snail (Family Pyramidellidae) on the true giant clam (Tridacna gigas)"

• 4MC UROPS - Chester Gan: “Investigating the health of Singapore’s mangrove ecosystems through the diet of crabs”

• 4MC UROPS - Sridharan Sheeraja: “Shape perception and discrimination: A  comparison between two Indo-Pacific dolphins”

• 4MC UROPS - Michelle Gan Wan Jie: “Time-of-day effect on the cognitive performance and behaviour of an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)”

• 4MC UROPS - Wee Shi Yi Crystle: “Time will tell: Different factors affecting the reaction time of an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) in an equivalence relations study”

2013/14

• Honours - Ang Chiam Foong Ambert: "Responses of juvenile fluted giant clams (Tridacna squamosa) to experimentally enhanced sedimentation"

• Honours - Liew Guangzhi Joseph: "Seawall and rocky shore assemblages: Are seawalls limited by algal recruitment, or by grazing?"

• Honours - Chan Zhi Wen, Ian: "Quantifying shell pattern and colour polymorphism in the button snail Umbonium vestiarium"

• 4MC UROPS - Movin Nyanasengeran: "The effect of Tubifex tubifex (Annelida: Haplotaxida, Tubificidae) on the population growth of Moina micrura (Crustacea: Anomopoda, Moinidae)"

• 4MC UROPS - Philbert Ong Yi Jie: "How does contour of the shapes affect the object recognition capability of an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) in a matching-to-sample study?"4MC UROPS - Tricia Poh Shi Min: "Material matters: Can an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) match a set of four abstract shapes even if they are made out of different materials?

2012/13

• Honours - Ian Vanderput: "Do complex artifical substrates enhance benthic recruitment on coral reefs?"

• Honours - Teo Yi Sheng Aaron: "Estimating minimum viable populations (MPS) for broadcast spawning corals"

• Honours - Muhammad Aizat Khalis B Daud: "Light-induced small-scale morphological change in colonial cnidarians"

• 4MC UROPS - Lam Kar Mun: "Spatial differences in subtidal epibiotic community structure in Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore"

• 4MC UROPS - Chan Zhi Wen, Ian: "Quantifying shell pattern and colour polmorphism in the button snail, Umbonium vestiarium"

• 4MC UROPS - Ang Chiam Foong Ambert: "Early subtidal epibiota recolonisation after total disturbance along various pontoon sites in Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore"

• 4MC UROPS - Hazel Peh Huiqi: :The threshold angle of stimuli rotation that a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncas) was able to visually match identical objects"

• 4MC UROPS - Chang Junning: "The effect of angular difference on the number of echolocation clicks produced by Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)"

2011/12

• Honours - Jamie Low Su Lin: "The effects of shading on seagrasses"

• Honours - Cheo Pei Rong: "Camouflage and polymorphism in intertidal crabs"

• Honours - Reef Koh Junjie: "The effects of chronic sediment on scleractinian corals"

• Honours - Woo Pui Min Henrietta: "The effects of thermal stress on Siphonaria (S. australis and S. javanica) tenacity"

• 8MC UROPS - Lee Chengfa Benjamin: "Does the shape and size of artificially-created gaps effect subsequent recovery of spoon seagrass (Halophila ovalis)?"

• 4MC UROPS - Zhou En'en Dawn: "The effects of trampling on seagrass meadows"

• 4MC UROPS - Ng Boon Hong: "How does the search technique of a bottlenose dolphin in Echoic - Echoic (EE) intra-modal and Visual &  Echoic (VE) cross-modal matching change with the introduction of No-paddle (NA) experiments?"

• 4MC UROPS - Lee Wan Jia, Joan: "Is there a limit to the complexity of shapes the bottlenosed dolphin can discriminate in visual-to-echoic matching-to-sample?"

• 4MC UROPS - Deborah Felicia Tan Li Ling: "The effect of a dental infection on the performance of a Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) in horizontal angular discrimination studies"

2010/11

• • Honours: Ong Chin Wei, Desmond: “Light-induced morphological plasticity in two zoanthids species: Zoanthus sansibaricus and Palythoa tuberculosa”

  • Honours: Soh Hui Shan: “The functions of crab colours”

  • Honours: Wei Xin Genevieve Sew: “The behaviour of Indo-pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) at Underwater World, Singapore”

  • 4MC UROPS: Koh Ling En: “Dolphin recognition of rotation across echolocation and sight”

  • 4MC UROPS: Cheo Pei Rong: “Training progress for vertical angular discrimination experiment of an atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the effect of stationary positioning on the cross-modal matching-to-sample ability of an indo-pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)”

  • 4MC UROPS: Reef Koh Junjie: “The effects of water movement on Montipora cactus (Scleractinia, Anthozoa) photosynthesis:respiration ratios”

2009/10

• • Honours: Loke Hui Ling, Lynette: "Engineering topographic heterogeneity for enhancing biodiversity on tropical seawalls."

  • Honours: Wincent Setiawan: "An aquarium-based approach to studying the mechanical effects of sedimentation in corals"

  • Honours: Bo Zuze: "Structurally-enhanced brightness and communication in Perisesarma eumolpe"

  • Honours: Manavi Bhardwaj: “Effect of climate change on coral reproduction”

  • 8MC UROPS: Lui Chun Yih Gerald: "Among genotype variation for sediment rejection in the massive coral Diploastrea heliopora (Lamark, 1816)"

  • 4MC UROPS: Phong Chun Fong: "The effects of substrate on locomotion and survival in the sea star, Astropecten indicus (Döderlein, 1888)"

2008/9

• • Honours - Loh Kok Sheng: "Feeding behaviour and ecology of sand stars(Astropecten indicus)"

  • Honours - Neo Mei Lin: "Defence mechanisms in juvenile fluted giant clams(Tridacna squamosa)"

  • Honours - Pamela Soo: "A Review of the behaviour of giant clams (Tridacnidae)"

  • 8MC UROPS - Loke Hui Ling, Lynette: "A comparison of methods for sampling macroinvertebrates in tropical lentic environments"

  • 4MC UROPS - Ho Yong Tze: "Stream acidification in Singapore and its effect on lotic invertebrates."

  • 4MC UROPS - Koh Xin Ting: "Identification and description of odonate larvae in lentic habitats of Singapore."

  • 4MC UROPS - Yoon Hui Lian: "Ephemeroptera Larvae in Singapore: a taxonomical approach."

  • 4MC UROPS - Fung Tze Kwan: "Identification and description of chironomidae larvae in lentic habitats of Singapore."

  • USP Joint Independent Study Module (ISM): Balasubramaniam Kanchana Devi and Ho Lai Fong Teresa "Evaluation of three artificial samplers for use in sampling lentic habitats"

2007/8

• Honours – Boon Peiya: “Sound production and reception in mangrove crabs Perisesarma spp. (Brachyura: Sesarmidae)”

• Honours – Jia Hui Lee: “Polymorphism and crypsis in the boring giant clam (Tridacna crocea): potential strategies against visual predators”

• 4MC UROPS - Neo Mei Lin: "Larval biology and settlement patterns of fluted giant clams (Tridacna squamosa)(Bivalvia)”

• 4MC UROPS – Chan Kuan Rong: "An allometric analysis of juvenile fluted giant clam shells (Tridacna squamosa L.)”

2006/7

• Honours – Ling Han: “The defensive role of scutes in juvenile fluted giant clams (Tridacna squamosa)”

• Honours – Huang Huiwen: “Inter- and intra-specific variation in the facial colours of Perisesarma eumolpe and Perisesarma indiarum (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)”

• Honours – Huang Danwei: “Movement and aggregation in the fluted giant clam (Tridacna squamosa L.)”

• 4MC UROPS – Boon Peiya: “Feeding ecology of two species of Perisesarma (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) in Mandai Mangroves, Singapore”