This year, the annual NTU College of Science Making & Tinkering Exhibition will be held on 10-11 Dec 2021. More than 15 Science and Technology projects done by NTU students in the last few months for the Making & Tinkering course will be featured. We would...
Our warmest congratulations to ASE graduates, David Mah and Leow Si Lei, on being awarded the Keppel Environmental Studies Gold Medal! The medal is awarded to graduating students who has obtained the highest cumulative grade point average (CGPA) for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Environmental Earth Systems Science.
In this series, Science@NTU gets to know the 2021 CoS valedictorians! They give a quick overview of their time in CoS, and also offer a few words of advice on staying positive during these uncertain times. First up, we have Victoria Cahyani Tanggono from the Asian School of the Environment (ASE).
Every year in CoS, PhD students defend their thesis, earning their doctorate which is the highest qualification in university. Science@NTU caught up with Dr Constance Chua from the Asian School of Environmental (ASE) about her PhD experience.
Scientists from ASE’s Marine Biogeochemistry Lab have discovered interesting patterns in ocean acidification linked to Singapore’s monsoon seasons. Using stable isotopes they were able to trace the path of carbon atoms from land to sea and air in and around Singapore.
Congratulations to Team Benthos on winning the International Natural Sciences Tournament (INST)! The INST Grand Finals concluded on 25 July 2021.
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, Prof Simon Redfern and his team show that subduction zones can be carbon sinks, contributing to the long-term storage of carbon in the deep Earth and thereby keeping it from re-entering the atmosphere as CO2. The flows of carbon between the Earth’s crust and the atmosphere are important processes regulating global atmospheric CO2 concentration.
EXPLORE! Grant awardees Roy Tan and Grace Tay will use novel techniques to achieve more accurate and efficient sampling of water and detection of marine microplastics and diatoms.
Two recent papers published in Nature Geoscience by researchers from ASE and the EOS Geodesy group shine new light on the geological processes leading up to earthquakes that can generate devastating tsunamis. In view of the new findings, earthquake and tsunami risk assessment need to be revised for coastlines near subduction zones in Asia and worldwide.
Conversion of forest to agricultural land is one of the biggest threats to wildlife in Asia. ASE PhD student Anushka Rege has investigated the potential of cashew plantations in India as habitat for wild animals, showing that though forests remain irreplaceable, cashew plantations could serve as a supplementary habitat for local animals, if well-managed.