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NUS Biodiversity Crew- Job: 2-year Research Assistant for PAR 10 May 2012
- Job: Full-time Teaching Assistant (FTTA) for Life Sciences (Environmental Biology), deadline: 23 May 2012 8 May 2012
- Danwei’s work on the Big-Mess-idae published as “Threatened Reef Corals of the World” in PLoS ONE 30 April 2012
- Job: Full-time Research Assistant for Mangrove Propagule Dispersal project at NUS SDWA / Geography / Biological Sciences 17 April 2012
- Richard Corlett leaves NUS for Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, July 2012 13 April 2012
- Job: Student field assistants wanted for plant traits in regenerating forests project 5 April 2012
- Ong Say Lin to be appointed Director of ACRES Laos PDR 30 March 2012
- Is bigger, better in European dung flies? Nalini and colleagues think so, in Evolution 27 March 2012
- Closure of Lab 7 from Reading Week to Sem 1 AY2012/3 (mid Apr – early Aug 2012) 26 March 2012
- Temporary closure of Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research collections May/Aug 2012 – Feb 2014 22 March 2012
- Raffles Museum Toddycats
- Come join us at the Festival of Biodiversity (26 & 27 May 2012) 15 May 2012
- Raffles Museum Toddycats at Festival of Biodiversity (26 & 27 May 2012) 2 May 2012
- Application for DENSO Youth for Earth Action is now open till 15 May 2012! 23 April 2012
- More than 500 learn about local biodiversity at World Water Day @ Lorong Halus Wetland (24 Mar 2012) 1 April 2012
- Find your passion with the rejuvenated Raffles Museum Toddycats! 29 March 2012
- Join Raffles Museum Toddycats at Lor Halus Wetland this Sat 24 Mar 2012! 23 March 2012
- Raffles Museum Toddycats’ preparation for Singapore World Water Day Exhibition (Sat 24 Mar 2012) 23 March 2012
- Raffles Museum Toddycats at Singapore World Water Day @ Lor Halus Wetland (Sat 24 Mar 2012) 7 March 2012
- The Battle of Pasir Panjang Commemorative Walk, Sun 12 Feb 2012: 7.00am 15 January 2012
- Local biodiversity and dinosaurs go to Geylang East Public Library! 15 December 2011
Category Archives: visitor
We have a bug visitor for a change!
John Ascher from the American Museum of Natural History is visiting the department this week as part of his interview process and swung by the museum this afternoon! Being a bee man, he could not resist checking out our modest … Continue reading
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Welcome back, Sang-Kyu!
Korean PhD student, Mr. Lee Sang-kyu, from the Laboratory of Systematics & Molecular Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, is currently visiting us to continue his research in crab taxonomy & systematics. This is his second time visiting the … Continue reading
Keeping the forest SAFE
Dr Rob Ewers, the Science Director of the SAFE (Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems) Project was here in the Raffles Museum for a short visit on the 20th of April 2012! He is also currently a lecturer in the Imperial College … Continue reading
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Squirrel Scientists!
Ms Melissa Roberts and Dr Jennifer Leonard were in RMBR on the 12th of March 2012 to examine squirrel specimens! Melissa is based at the Center for Conservation & Evolutionary Genetics at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo in Washington, … Continue reading
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Look who’s here!
Dr Maurice Kottelat passed through Singapore on his way back to Switzerland and decided to call on us at the museum. No holiday for him this time round; he is here to finish up existing projects with the fishy folks … Continue reading
New species come out of their shells
This week, the Raffles Museum is hosting two hermit crab experts from Indonesia and Japan. Co-authors of “A catalogue of the hermit crabs of Taiwan” (with Dr.Patsy Mclaughlin [deceased] and Dr. Chan Tin-Yam [National Taiwan Ocean University]), Dr Dwi Listyo Rahayu … Continue reading
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All the way from Tokyo!
Mr Osamu Hoson, from the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan, was here on the 16th of January 2012. He works on aquatic mammals and was here to examine our collection of dugong skulls!
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Snake-lovers in RMBR
Ms Silke Schweiger from the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Austria and Mr Thomas Wampula from the Vienna Zoo, Austria are researchers interested in snakes! They stopped by on the 29th of December 2011 to examine snake specimens for Silke’s … Continue reading
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Asia-Europe Foundation Governors visit to RMBR on 3 December 2011
A few members of the Board of Governors from the Asia-Europe Foundation visited the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research on the 3rd of December 2011. Professor Leo Tan, the Governor of Singapore in the foundation, along with his fellow board … Continue reading
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Extreme Makeover – RMBR style
As many of you already know, most of the specimens of Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research were collected many many years ago. Some of our oldest specimens are more than a hundred years old! These older specimens need the care … Continue reading
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