Dugong feeding trails at Cyrene!

Siti saw dugong feeding trails at Cyrene Reef! Dugongs are also called sea cows because they only eat seagrasses.

We often see dugong feeding trails on Chek Jawa, even on Changi. But this is our first sighting of them on Cyrene!

Tuas (27 Mar 2012)

The Merck volunteers are back out on the Tuas shore to monitor the seagrasses here! This wing of TeamSeagrass is led by Sheryl, who has been keeping this important work going for many years. Hurray!

The seagrasses are doing fine and we also saw some interesting marine life even though the tide wasn't very low.

Cyrene Reef (11 Mar 2012)

Our first morning tide trip for 2012 is to Cyrene Reef! In the first glimmers of dawn, a large team start the slow transfer from the big boats to this awesome submerged reef that lies in the middle of the industrial triangle!

In addition to a team for seagrass monitoring, more TeamSeagrass volunteers have stepped up to help Siti with her seagrass experiment on Cyrene.

Pulau Semakau (19 Feb 2012)

A surprise even before we left the Pier! An entourage of specially dressed up folks gathered to perform right in front of us as we were waiting for the ferry.

An exciting start to a fruitful and enjoyable monitoring session at Pulau Semakau!

Seagrass meadows may be oldest and largest organisms on earth

A seagrass species found in the Mediterranean is possibly the oldest and largest organism, reaching up to (15 km) wide and may be more than 100,000 years old.

Posidonia oceanica by M. San Felix from LiveScience.com

Wow! I wonder, how old are our seagrass meadows?!

Chek Jawa (8 Jan 2012)

It's our first monitoring trip for 2012! And what a wet start we had!

Despite the rainy weather, this team of enthusiastic volunteers soldiered on and got it done!