More photos of the First Marine Biodiversity Expedition

Rene Ong meticulously took countless photos of the marvellous animals discovered during the Expedition!

From gianormous sea stars to tiny brittle stars, intriguing anemones, weird fishes and strange sea cucumbers. She's shared them all on her Naturely Curious facebook page.

First Marine Biodiversity Expedition (8 Mar 2012)

I'm back for the last days of the Expedition and it's a hive of activity at the work stations when I arrive in the afternoon of the second last day.

There's frenzied work on taking DNA vouchers, with phototaking, sorting and preserving going on all at the same time. And more field trips too!

First Marine Biodiversity Expedition: More glimpses

Jocelyne Sze shares more about the Expedition in her blog Nature Rambles.

Here's Prof Peter as the dredging is being set up
on the NUS research vessel Galaxea.

Thanks to Jocelyne, we have a glimpse of some of the very many exciting happenings at the Expedition! Here's some of the many events that I didn't blog about.

First Marine Biodiversity Expedition (7 Mar 2012)

It's Day Two of the Expedition and another batch of volunteers are back on the mudflats at Pulau Ubin, Outward Bound Singapore.

They were a fun and enthusiastic bunch from APB (Asia Pacific Breweries) who are sponsoring the Survey and Expedition. It was nice to meet them again and earlier, I had been on a trip Big Sisters Island with them.

First Marine Biodiversity Expedition (6 Mar 2012)

The Mega Marine Survey's first Expedition kicked off this morning! A small team are gathered at Celestial Resort, Pulau Ubin for this momentous event.

Here, the leading members of the Expedition are scrutinising the navigation maps to plot our first dredging exercise. So what is an Expedition all about?

Sungei Api Api (21 Feb 2012)

The lovely mangroves that line Sungei Api Api at Pasir Ris Park is the site of our survey today!

It's really soft and squishy here! But as usual, this didn't stop the volunteers!

Survey digs up 100 species!

Thanks to Grace Chua of the Straits Times, the Survey is in the news with a report of how we have uncovered 100 species, some are new to Singapore or to science, even though we are only one-third through the project!

Among the featured creatures is this anemone which we found deep into the mudflats of Lim Chu Kang. This bumpy, warty sea anemone so new to science, it does not even have a scientific name yet. We have fondly nicknamed it Bill and we've seen it at other locations in Singapore too.