Talk Archives - Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

POSTED ON April 25, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Talk by Visiting Researcher – Emily Hartop

Come along on a journey following a researcher’s adventure chasing flies all over the globe! Visiting fly researcher Emily Hartop will be giving a talk on one of the most surprisingly diverse genus of flies, Megaselia. The talk will be held at our Learning Lab 2 on the 8th of May, 7-8pm. Light refreshments will

POSTED ON March 16, 2018 BY Clarisse Tan

Marine Open House 2018

The rain last Saturday did not dampen the spirits of the crowd at our Marine Open House! Starting from registration in the morning, the air was filled with excitement and chatter. Throughout the day, visitors were taken on a learning journey under the sea, with various events focused on marine science. In his talk, “Wet

POSTED ON February 5, 2018 BY Jeremy Yeo

Free Public Talk: The Birds That Never Rest: 60 Years of Swiftlet Research Flown By

THE BIRDS THAT NEVER REST: 60 YEARS OF SWIFTLET RESEARCH FLOWN BY The Earl of Cranbrook is not only a lawyer and parliamentarian, he has also been active in the fields of mammalogy, ornithology and zooarcheology since 1956. One of the key focus of his decades-long research stint in Malaysia is the cave swiftlet, of which

POSTED ON November 3, 2017 BY Clarisse Tan

Feature Talk: Dr. Wong Siew Te

On Tuesday, Dr. Wong Siew Te, the founder of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC) in Sabah, Malaysia, gave a talk in the museum on the ecology and conservation issues facing the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), as well as the efforts by the BSBCC to conserve them. Here is a summary of the

POSTED ON July 24, 2014 BY marcuschua

Tue 29 Jul 2014: 7.00pm @ SBG Botany Centre – “Singapore’s Overlooked Marine Biodiversity” by Kevin Tilbrook (Wallace Lecture Series)

The Wallace Lecture Series presents Singapore’s Overlooked Marine Biodiversity Dr Kevin J. Tillbrook FLS Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK Tuesday 29 July 2014 7.00pm – 8.30pm Function Hall, Botany Centre 1 Singapore Botanic Gardens (Tanglin Gate) RSVP at: http://tinyurl.com/l5kv2de Abstract Singapore stands at the gateway to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea, and the