The Southern Expedition: What we found

The results of the Southern Expedition for the Mega Marine Survey are out! These include seven species new to science and more than 160 new records for Singapore!

A massive 30 articles outline the results and had to be published in two volumes in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 34 Part I and Part II. Some of these will be featured on the Mega Marine Survey facebook page in the coming weeks.

The Northern Expedition: what we found

The results of the Northern Expedition are published in The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2015 Supplement No. 31.

With lots of new finds from slugs to seaweeds, sea cucumbers to sea anemones, lots of crabs and other critters! Some of these will be featured on the Mega Marine Survey facebook page in the coming weeks.

A Rare Glimpse into a Scientific Expedition

In A Rare Glimpse into a Scientific Expedition on My Green Space, published by NParks, Jocelyne Sze shares what she saw and learnt from the Expedition.

Brings back memories of hard work but also lots of fun, finding out more about marine life in Singapore's waters!

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?