Hello and welcome to my blog where I will be sharing about
environmental issues close to me, in particular, conservation. A little about
myself, I’m currently studying at NUS and a hobby of mine is photography, hence
the name of my blog. I mainly do macro photography. If you would like to see some of my photos, here's the link to my flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/48416502@N04/
For the first post however, I’ll be talking about my
experience working in an ecology lab. After completing my National Service, I
had worked for a short while at Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI). Fresh
out of the army and coming from a junior college, it was a whole new experience
for me. The job mostly consisted of sorting samples and I had the opportunity
to see many interesting specimens in the process. Here is a photo of some fly (order
Diptera) pupas we found:
Photo credits to Darren Sim.
Besides working on the project, I also got the chance to
interact with a few of the researchers. One piece of advice I received was not
to immediately start working after graduation but to go out of Southeast Asia
and volunteer/work for a conservation organisation for a few months.
From my short stint at TMSI, I learnt there are many species
that rely on water bodies as part of their life cycles. A slight change in the
water quality can upset this balance and end up affecting humans as seen in
swarming of midges in the past years (there many are other possible reasons for
this and it is much more complex than only water quality).
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