Research

This project aims to map and improve the forest abovegound biomass estimates in Southeast Asia by linking remote sensing data with ground-based data.

Mangroves offer a host of benefits such as protecting lives, supporting livelihoods and contributing to climate mitigation goals. Under climate change and future land-use changes, conservation strategies may need to be adapted to evolving pressures. My research focuses on quantifying benefits of mangroves, as well as assessing conservation strategies for mangrove ecosystems in the current and changing climate.

This project aims to assess the environmental and social integrity of natural climate solutions through an inter-disciplinary approach. Key topics include factors influencing carbon credit certification, monitoring of biodiversity outcomes as well as the effectiveness of benefit-sharing mechanisms for local communities.

This project aims to improve tropical forest peatland above-ground biomass estimations using traditional ground forest surveys, Terrestrial LiDAR scanning (TLS) and Drone LiDAR scanning (ULS). We further aim to understand the effects of human disturbance at the edge of peatland forests in Brunei, and the impacts on their geomorphology, ecology, biodiversity and biomass.

HFLD jurisdictions are vital as they contain some of the world’s last intact forests. However, these areas may experience increasing deforestation rates, which traditional carbon financing mechanisms based on historical baselines may not address adequately. In this project, we explore ways to improve HFLD crediting mechanisms to provide sufficient incentives for their protection while ensuring project integrity.

This project’s main aim is to understand the integration of blue carbon in Singapore’s national climate change mitigation targets. This project combines an interdisciplinary approach to mapping blue carbon at site and national scale, understanding changes in blue carbon and future projections. Public and private stakeholders are also engaged to create a roadmap of blue carbon as a climate change policy option for Singapore. This project is based in the Department of Geography.

This project aims to provide empirical evidence for the climate benefits of a primarily biodiversity-focused conservation intervention by using tiger conservation in India as a model. We found that enhanced species focused conservation led to over 93$ million USD in climate regulation services in India over the study period. Link to the study here. Media features: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/tiger-conservation-in-india-saved-at-least-one-million-tonnes-of-co2-from-being-emitted-study https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tiger-conservation-efforts-bring-carbon-benefits-worth-rs-769-crore/articleshow/100924231.cms https://abcnews.go.com/US/tiger-conservation-india-helping-mitigate-climate-change/story?id=99567912

Carbon Integrity SG is a research programme funded by the Singaporean government with a mission is to develop and strengthen capabilities in the accounting, monitoring, and quality assurance of nature-based carbon projects across Southeast Asia.

This project aims to develop a regional framework to understand risks to near-shore human development and assess the opportunity of mangrove green and green-grey solutions in Southeast Asia as the climate change adaptation strategies.