I had wanted to help out with Project Semakau in 2010 and attended their training. Unfortunately a job acceptance took me away from all these activities. I sincerely hope I may be able to help them some time in the future perhaps.
Anyway I did a classroom lesson with them and 2 survey trainings.
The first survey training was a Biodiversity survey training at Pulau Semakau on 31 July (Sat) 5am-12pm
As it was too early for public transport, I had to take a cab in the wee hours to reach Marina South Pier. Being my first assignment cum on the job training, I am totally clueless. This is a hunting trip where we are each allocated a portion to analyze the living specimens and its population in that area. And because of the superb hunting skill of my partner, I saw plentiful actually.
E.g. corals
Crabs
Order: Animalia > Arthropoda > Malacostraca > Decapoda > Pilumnidae
Name: Pilumnus vespertilio or Hairy Crab
The onch slug which at first I thought were snails...
Further investigation from wildsingapore states that Onch slugs belong to Phylum Mollusca and are snails of the Class Gastropoda that lack shells. That explains my puzzlement...
Mud lobster if I'm not wrong as seems to be
Twinkle Twinkle little sea stars
Hmm.. forgot what these are call.. oopsy...
Flatworm
Algae
Oh my partner of the day clicks with me as we do share similar interests. She dived a lot, run marathon (she was wearing the bay run tee thus that's how the conversation started) and was a contestant for ultra-marathoner too though she did not participate as she felt she did not train much. In fact she has a friend who is also doing the race in Sahara Desert, fund raising for the Singapore. This lady friend is much more impressive who has participate lots of events and won some.
The second one was a monitoring survey training at Pulau Semakau on 14 Aug (Sat) 5.30am-12.30pm. Another morning taxi ride. It was a bit more boring than the first one as we are more concerned about the growth of the sea grass along the transact lines that we were laying at the reef edge.
So it was lots of pictures of the sea grass
with some occurrences of animal e.g. the crab
then more tape grass
and then clams
think we caught sight of a mangrove horseshoe crab.. reminds me of the horseshoe crab research I used to participate (check out the story here)
Tiny hairy crab (pilumnu vespertilio) staring at us...
This was caught by another team... but I'm not sure what is it actually...
That's the end of the survey. I still am feeling apologetic about not being able to do more for the project. Sighz.
Anyway you can read up more about Project Semakau via here. I do wonder how's their progress....
Anyway I did a classroom lesson with them and 2 survey trainings.
The first survey training was a Biodiversity survey training at Pulau Semakau on 31 July (Sat) 5am-12pm
Crabs
Name: Pilumnus vespertilio or Hairy Crab
The onch slug which at first I thought were snails...
Twinkle Twinkle little sea stars
Hmm.. forgot what these are call.. oopsy...
Oh my partner of the day clicks with me as we do share similar interests. She dived a lot, run marathon (she was wearing the bay run tee thus that's how the conversation started) and was a contestant for ultra-marathoner too though she did not participate as she felt she did not train much. In fact she has a friend who is also doing the race in Sahara Desert, fund raising for the Singapore. This lady friend is much more impressive who has participate lots of events and won some.
The second one was a monitoring survey training at Pulau Semakau on 14 Aug (Sat) 5.30am-12.30pm. Another morning taxi ride. It was a bit more boring than the first one as we are more concerned about the growth of the sea grass along the transact lines that we were laying at the reef edge.
So it was lots of pictures of the sea grass
with some occurrences of animal e.g. the crab
Anyway you can read up more about Project Semakau via here. I do wonder how's their progress....
