Science Communication Writing Competition: Merit Prize winner Soon Kit Ying (ASE)

Science Communication Writing Competition: Merit Prize winner Soon Kit Ying (ASE)

by | Feb 10, 2020

The inaugural CoS Science Communication Writing Competition was held from 11 Nov 2019 to 10 Jan 2020. We received many submissions, and a panel of judges consisting of faculty from CoS judged the entries and shortlisted the winners! First up, winner of the Merit Prize, Soon Kit Ying from the Asian School of the Environment! She wrote about “Reflecting on Our Sea Level – The Use of GNSS-Interferometric Reflectometry to Study Sea-level Trends.” Congratulations, Kit Ying!

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MOE Tier 2 grant to Assoc Prof Xianfeng Wang: Predicting future monsoon patterns through cave proxy of past rainfall variation

MOE Tier 2 grant to Assoc Prof Xianfeng Wang: Predicting future monsoon patterns through cave proxy of past rainfall variation

by and | Aug 14, 2019

It is hard to underestimate the importance of the Asian monsoon; the world’s largest weather system, affecting almost half of the world’s population, and the base of food security and water supply in Southeast Asia, large parts of China and beyond. With climate change comes more frequent high intensity downpours during the wet season, and the monsoon season also becomes more difficult to predict.

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The child of Krakatoa awakes

The child of Krakatoa awakes

by and | Dec 27, 2018

At approximately 9:30pm local time (2:30pm GMT) on the 22nd December 2018, a tsunami struck Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, which lies between the islands of Java and Sumatra, claiming over 430 lives. According to Indonesia’s disaster agency there are at least 1,500 injured, over 120 people still missing, and around 12,000 people have been displaced.

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