Malaysia team members

Amy Then

• Senior Lecturer, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science Universiti Malaya.

• I am the Project Leader for the Malaysian InMSEA team, specifically to establish the Blue Carbon CNS network in Malaysia. My research interests are focused on animal-environment-human interactions to inform meaningful, data-driven conservation and management efforts in the coastal and marine realms. Currently, I am working on broad topics of mangrove ecology, restoration and ecosystem services assessment, marine megafauna fisheries and bycatch, eDNA as tool for biomonitoring, and linkages between marine protected area and the wellbeing of both ecosystems and humans.

• Websites:

  • UM EXPERT - DR. AMY THEN

  • NexAMS website

  • COASTAR website

Affendi Yang Amri

• President of Malaysian Society of Marine Sciences (MSMS) and Research Officer at Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES), Universiti Malaya.

• My role in InMSEA is to help bring together Malaysian marine scientists to be active members of the Blue Carbon CNS network for Malaysia through our marine NGO MSMS. I am a coral reef ecologist and my main research interest is in surveying and mapping important coral reef ecosystems and the ecophysiology of scleractinian (hard) corals especially on coral bleaching effects due to higher seawater temperatures.

• Websites:

  • Malaysian Society of Marine Sciences

  • UM EXPERT - MR. AFFENDI YANG AMRI

  • teamseahabitats.weebly.com/

Mueller Moritz

• Professor at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus.

• My groups' projects focus on the impact of land-use change to various biogeochemical cycles, the release of greenhouse gases, transport and fate of dissolved organic and inorganic carbon, and the role of microbes underlying these processes. In addition we co-founded the Malaysian Microplastics Network and also co-developed the Sarawak DataCube which hosts Earth Observation data specifically for Sarawak. Our role in InMSEA is to establish the Bornean network for Blue Carbon.

• Websites:

  • www.aques.org/

Jillian Ooi

• Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Universiti Malaya.

• I am a seagrass ecologist and geographer, with a special interest in the ecosystem functions of seagrass and coral reefs, seagrass-environment relationships, seagrass restoration methods that focus on root development, and coral restoration methods that focus on herbivory populations. I work closely with local communities and NGOs in Malaysia to build capacity in seagrass conservation by using the citizen science approach. My role in the Malaysian InMSEA team is to support work in seagrass bed dynamics, and in developing the carbon network.

• Websites:

  • http://teamseahabitats.weebly.com/jillian-ooi.html

Chee Su Yin

• Senior Lecturer, Centre for Global Sustainability Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

• My group works on ecological engineering and nature-based solutions in coastal and marine environments. We focus on developing new ways of making space for nature in human-dominated environments and using nature as solutions to environmental crises in the marine realm. My role in the Malaysian InMSEA is to support the work in mangrove ecosystems and the synergy between this and other coastal and marine ecosystems.

Maryam Jamilah

• Research Assistant, STAND-InMSEA project, Universiti Malaya.

• I am the research assistant for the Malaysian branch of the InMSEA project. My role is to support the team members in administrative work and communications with potential partners of the project.