About Me
I am motivated by the urgent need to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Global mean sea-level rise will impact a large number of people and assets concentrated along the world's low-elevation coastal zones -- particularly in Asia. My current work seeks to understand the drivers of relative sea-level changes along tropical coastlines, and the translation of science to policy. I am actively searching for a new position, with strong interests in the following: sea-level change drivers and impact along coasts; sea-level rise policies; flood risk; climate impacts and risk; natural hazards.
Education
2015 -- 2019
BSc. Environmental Earth Systems Science
Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2019 -- 2023
PhD. in Paleo Sea Levels
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Skills
Fieldwork (sketching, surveying, sediment coring, coral core drilling, installing portable tide gauges)
Labwork (loss-on-ignition, dry bulk density, fine fraction sediment vacuum filtration, pollen prep, foraminifera prep)
Geochronology (AMS radiocarbon dating and pretreatment, U-Th dating)
Software (Adobe Illustrator, GIS, R, matlab)
3D-Photogrammetry (Agisoft Metashape)
Scientific communication (media engagement, school talks, documentary film)
Conferences/
Presentations
IGCP 639, 13-19 October, 2019: Sea-Level Change from Minutes to Millenia (Attended)
SAPEC-2020, January 2020. Oral Presentation: “Reconstructing Holocene relative sea levels: a case study of the Fiji islands”.
PALSEA express 2020. Online, 15-16 September 2020 (Attended)
AGU Fall Meeting. Online, 1-17 December 2020. Poster: “Sea-level Rise Projections and Their Impact on Policy and Practice in Asia”.
vEGU 2021. Online, 19-30 April 2021 (Attended)
AOGS 2021 Virtual 18th Annual Meeting. Online, 1-6 August 2021. Poster: "Determination of relative sea-level change from coral microatolls in southern Singapore."
PALSEA-SERCE meeting, 2021. Online, 13-16 September 2021. (Attended).
INQUA-MARE workshop: Antarctic Realm. Online, 29 November - 1 December 2021. Poster: "Holocene relative sea-level changes from mid-Pacific ocean islands".
AGU Fall meeting. Online, 13-17 December 2021. Poster: "Holocene relative sea-level change from coral microatolls at Sentosa, Singapore".
EGU 2022, Vienna, 23-27 May 2022 (Attended)
WCRP 2022, Singapore, 12-16 July 2022. Oral Presentation: “Coral recorders of Holocene sea-level changes in Singapore”
PALSEA 2022, Singapore, 17-20 July 2022. Poster: “Late Holocene Relative sea-level changes from coral microatolls in Sentosa, Singapore”.
PALSEA 2022, Singapore, 17-20 July 2022. Poster: “Database of Holocene relative sea-level data from mid-Pacific Ocean Islands”.
INQUA 2023, Rome, Italy, 14-20 July 2023. Poster: "Holocene relative sea-level database of the mid-Pacific".
AGU 2023, San Francisco, USA, 11-15 December 2023. Oral Presentation: "High-resolution Late Holocene relative sea-level changes revealed by coral microatolls in Singapore".
5th International PalaeoArc conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024. Poster: "The application of foraminifera environmental DNA to reconstruct relative sea levels inNorway".
PALSEAnext: “From Mud to Models”, Santa Barbara, USA, 26-28 August 2024. "Continuous relative sea-level rise since ~8500 yrs BP recorded by mangroves in Belize".
Scientific communication
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Documentary series with Channel News Asia
Coauthored teenage magazine
Gave a talk to students at Anderson Secondary School
Media interview with the Straits Times
Media interview with Channel News Asia
Live podcast with Channel News Asia
Gave a talk to students at Hwa Chong International
Documentary on Antarctica’s importance to climate and sea level
Honours & Awards
2020
2019 - 2023
2017 - 2019
EOS Continuing Scholarship
NTU 3-Minute Thesis, First runner-up
Nanyang President’s Graduate Scholarship