Taipei

Edwina Tanner

September 29, 2016

Taipei

The harbours of Keelung and Shen-Ao-Leng, in north-eastern Taiwan, are highly urbanised and in constant use by cargo ships, commercial and recreational vessels, and cruise liners. Taiwan’s coast experiences regular typhoons and tropical storms, and consequently approximately 80% of the natural shoreline around Keelung and Shen-Ao-Leng has been replaced by concrete seawalls and tetrapod breakwaters. This process is ongoing, with artificial structures being regularly added to the coastline.

For further information on this partner harbour, please email the primary contact listed in bold below.

Benny K K Chan

Dr Benny K. K. Chan is the principal investigator for the Green Engineering component (Workgroup 2) in Taiwan. Dr Benny Chan is currently a Professor at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, and his research expertise is on intertidal ecology and barnacle biology. Dr Chan has previously worked on the variation of intertidal assemblages among artificial seawall and natural rocky shores in the Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.

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Clarissa Fraser

Clarissa Fraser is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Biodiversity Centre at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Prior to this she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swire Institute of Marine Science within The University of Hong Kong. She completed her PhD in 2014 at the University of Sydney on the ecology and ecophysiology of intertidal limpets. Her research interests are in understanding the links between the behaviour of rocky shore animals, habitat complexity and environmental factors. She is currently investigating the role of thermal stress on mating behaviour of intertidal barnacles.

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Singapore

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July 21, 2015

Singapore

The island state of Singapore presents a unique model for examining how anthropogenic activities shape natural ecosystems. Lying at the crossroad between Pacific and Indian Oceans on the western edge of the Coral Triangle, Singapore has the third highest population density and world’s busiest tropical Port. The small island state adopted the Garden City concept for urban development planning soon after independence. The City Biodiversity Index (CBI) was introduced in 2009 to encourage biodiversity conservation within the urban environment. Recently, we have started to consider the CBI in context of Singapore’s waterways. With limited territorial waters, significant challenges exist for managing conflicts between stakeholders. The surge in economic activities along all coastlines and global climate change presents significant new challenges for the harbor and surrounding aquatic ecosystems.

Over the past decade, TMSI is working closely with government agencies to map and characterize Singapore’s waterways. This includes the biodiversity baseline and maintaining high resolution hydrodynamic models to support government coastal management requirements. With multi-discipline labs covering acoustics, oceanography, ecology and biology, TMSI works closely with local urban planners to develop methods to minimize impacts, rehabilitate degraded coastal habitats and enhance biodiversity in the urban sea-scape. The institute has a marine station on St John’s Island to support research requiring seawater aquaria facilities.

In order to understand ecological impacts in response to urban pressures form inland-water flows, SCELSE has developed expertise and capacity for systems level analyses, imaging and related technologies to address responses of microbial communities in Singapore inland waters to, and impact on, shifts in urban environments. SCELSE and SIMS recently identified similar ecosystem natural and anthropogenic drivers on water-quality and aquatic life in inland (Singapore) and estuarine (Australia) waters. As part of the World Harbor Project, SCELSE will contribute expertise in integrating multi-omics for investigating both top-down/bottom-up influences of urban pressures on inland, estuarine and marine ecosystems.

Staffan Kjelleberg

Staffan Kjelleberg is Director of the Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, NTU Singapore, and Co-Director, the Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation UNSW Australia. His research interests include bacterial biofilm biology, chemically mediated interactions used by bacteria and higher organisms, and harnessing/controlling biofilms for engineering and public health applications. His research incorporates a meta-‘omics approach to explore microbial communities and processes in complex systems, with translational outcomes in biotechnology and environmental/ public health domains.

Professor Kjelleberg has employed a multidisciplinary approach for advancements in microbial ecology, as well as for the merger of the previously disparate fields of environmental microbiology, eukaryote and marine ecology, as well as environmental engineering. His work on bacterial adaptive responses and biofilm biology has provided insights into the predominant modes of life of bacteria in the environment.

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Sanjay Swarup

Sanjay Swarup, SCELSE Graduate Program Director, Deputy Research Director (Environmental Engineering); Deputy Director, NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI); Department of Biological Sciences, NUS Professor Swarup’s research combines multidisciplinary approaches to understand the biological roles of metabolites in cellular networks and in signalling between environmental microbes and their hosts. Prof. Swarup uses multi-‘omics approaches to better understand microbial processes in environmental contexts such as tropical urban freshwater.

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Peter Todd

Peter Alan Todd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he runs the Experimental Marine Ecology Laboratory and coordinates the Minor in Aquatic Ecology. Peter received his BSc in Ecological Sciences from the University of North London in 1997 and completed his PhD in Marine Ecology at NUS in 2002. After a two and half year postdoctoral period at Napier University, Scotland, he returned to NUS as an Instructor and then Lecturer.   Peter is an experimental marine ecologist who specialises in designing, implementing and analysing novel approaches to investigations. He focusses on the ecology and functioning of Southeast Asian tropical marine organisms and communities, including the impacts of urbanization. In his applied research he tries to better understand, and ultimately improve, Singapore’s impacted coastal environments. He is an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE, Subject Editor for Oikos, and Associate Editor for the Raffles Bulletin.

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Serena Teo

Serena Teo is Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Tropical Marine Science Institute of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Teo graduated with BSc Honours in Zoology from NUS in 1988. She completed her PhD in Marine Biology (1992) in University of Wales Swansea, UK and returned to NUS to work as a marine biologist. Her research interests lie in understanding how anthropogenic activities interact and shape the marine environment. Current research projects include marine biosecurity, antifouling research and marine invasive species transfer through shipping.

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Sek Man Wong

Sek Man Wong was appointed as Director, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS) on 1 October 2014. He is concurrently Director (Alumni Relations & Special Duties), Faculty of Science, NUS and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NUS. Professor Man’s research interest is in discovery of new viruses and studies of viral gene functions.

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Jakarta

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July 21, 2015

Jakarta

A new project named the “Jakarta Giant Seawall” (JGSW) project was launched in October 2014. The seawall is planned to enclose Jakarta Bay in order to protect the city of Jakarta from floods and sea level rise. Completion is projected for 2030. In 2014, the Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research and Development under the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of Indonesia, initiated a research project to study the sociological and environmental impacts of the JGSW. Hydrodynamic current simulation before and after the building of the sea wall will be presented as well as measurement results of water quality, input of sediment transport and pollution from the rivers that terminate in Jakarta Bay, land subsidence rate of the Jakarta area, and sea water intrusion. Future opportunities for joint studies and monitoring will be identified in partnership with the Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology and The Sydney Institute of Marine Science.

Wiwin Windupranata

Wiwin Windupranata completed undergraduate study in Geodetic Engineering Department at Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) in 1998 and began his academic career as lecturer and researcher assistant in the field of hydrography and marine science.

In 2003, he joined the PhD program at Christian Albrecht Universität zu Kiel, Germany, with a scholarship from Deutsch Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) in the field of Coastal Geosciences and Engineering. His postdoctoral research investigated sedimentation and erosion for optimization of protection structure of Mittelplate Oil Platform, Wadden Sea, Germany.

In 2008, he continued his career as a lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, ITB. From 2009 until 2014 he has investigated coastline changes at northern coast of West Java induced by abrasion and sedimentation along with the impact on the local social-economic activities. During this time he has also worked on the development of fishing zone information system and high resolution time-dynamic wave simulations of Tanjung Priok Harbour, Jakarta.

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Widodo Setiyo Pranowo

Widodo Setiyo Pranowo completed a Ph.D in Techno-mathematics at the University of Bremen, 2010. He currently works in the Agency of Marine and Fisheries Research and Development, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of Indonesia. He is Deputy Director of the Research Cooperation and Services of Research and Development Center for Marine and Coastal Resources. He is also a lecturer in the Indonesian Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Hydro-Oceanography.

During 2007-2010, he was contracted by UN University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) working, with the Tsunami Research Group in Alfred Wegener Institute, for the tsunami scenario database development for the German-Indonesia Tsunami Warning System (GITEWS) project. His other experiences in oceanography research projects: Indonesia-Through-Flow (INSTANT Project) 2003-2006; Installation and deployment of Argo Floats in Southeast Indian Ocean including data quality control under POGO scholar research fellow in CSIRO Marine Labs Hobart (2004 & 2005); Indonesian coordinator for Indonesia-China joint research on “Monsoon Onset Monitoring and Its Social and Ecosystem Impacts” 2013-2016; and since 2013 appointed to be coordinator of the End-Users of the Satellite Application for Oil Spill Monitoring of the “Indonesia Infrastructure Development for Space Oceanography” project.

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