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. My work seeks to understand the drivers of relative sea-level changes along tropical coastlines, which can be influenced not only be changes to the volume of our oceans but also by local vertical land motion. I have broader interests in the role of natural climate solutions in climate change mitigation, and their interactions with sea-level change.
Qualifications
2015 -- 2019
BSc. Environmental Earth Systems Science
Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2019 -- 2023
PhD. Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Skills
Fieldwork (sketching, surveying, sediment coring, coral core drilling, installing portable tide gauges)
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Labwork (loss-on-ignition, dry bulk density, fine fraction sediment vacuum filtration, pollen prep, foraminifera prep)
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Geochronology (AMS radiocarbon dating and pretreatment, U-Th dating)
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Software (Adobe Illustrator, GIS, R, matlab)
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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)
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SAPEC-2020, January 2020. Oral Presentation: “Reconstructing Holocene relative sea levels: a case study of the Fiji islands”.
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PALSEA express 2020. Online, 15-16 September 2020 (Attended)
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AGU Fall Meeting. Online, 1-17 December 2020. Poster: “Sea-level Rise Projections and Their Impact on Policy and Practice in Asia”.
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vEGU 2021. Online, 19-30 April 2021 (Attended)
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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).
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INQUA-MARE workshop: Antarctic Realm. Online, 29 November - 1 December 2021. Poster: "Holocene relative sea-level changes from mid-Pacific ocean islands".
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AGU Fall meeting. Online, 13-17 December 2021. Poster: "Holocene relative sea-level change from coral microatolls at Sentosa, Singapore".
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EGU 2022, Vienna, 23-27 May 2022 (Attended)
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WCRP 2022, Singapore, 12-16 July 2022. Oral Presentation: “Coral recorders of Holocene sea-level changes in Singapore”
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PALSEA 2022, Singapore, 17-20 July 2022. Poster: “Late Holocene Relative sea-level changes from coral microatolls in Sentosa, Singapore”.
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PALSEA 2022, Singapore, 17-20 July 2022. Poster: “Database of Holocene relative sea-level data from mid-Pacific Ocean Islands”.
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INQUA 2023, Rome, Italy. Poster: "Holocene relative sea-level database of the mid-Pacific".
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AGU 2024, San Francisco, USA. Oral Presentation: "High-resolution Late Holocene relative sea-level changes revealed by coral microatolls in Singapore".
Scientific communication
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Documentary series with Channel News Asia
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Coauthored teenage magazine
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Gave a talk to students at Anderson Secondary School
Media interview with the Straits Times
Media interview with Channel News Asia​
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Live podcast with Channel News Asia
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Gave a talk to students at Hwa Chong International
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