Richard completed his Bachelor’s degree in Forestry at Bangor University in Wales and is now in the Environmental Management MSc programme at NUS. For his MSc thesis he will conduct an economic evaluation of the ecosystem services in Singapore’s Central Catchment Nature Reserve. Welcome, Richard!

Catharina completed her MSc at Uppsala University, Sweden, her MRes at Imperial College London, UK, and her BSc at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. In her PhD she will use quantitative modelling tools to study the ecology and conservation of amphibians in Southeast Asia. Welcome, Catharina!

In collaboration with Cui Jinqiang and Ben Chen in NUS Engineering and Shawn Lum at Nanyang Technological University, we recently trialled the use of a below-canopy quadrocopter drone mounted with LiDAR for the purpose of measuring tree diameters. Initial results are promising.

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Our new study investigating the relationship between tree diversity and biomass and productivity in 25 CTFS plots is available here. The paper was selected as an Editor’s Choice article.