Ray TONG Jing PhD Candidate Email: raytongjing(AT)u.nus.edu

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Background

B.Sc. with Honours (Highest Distinction) in Life Sciences (Specialisation: Environmental Biology) (National University of Singapore, 2023)

Bio and Research Interests

Marine biology as a professional pursuit is a childhood dream fulfilled, which has been entirely enabled by the nurturing and supportive community of the marine labs that have taken me in. As an undergraduate, I studied the historical commercial fisheries and contemporary recreational fisheries of Singapore under Dr Zeehan Jaafar as part of the Marine Conservation Lab, where I was also exposed to a range of experiences including field methods such as dive surveys. It was there where I first learned that I like analysing and mining new insights from large datasets. These rich experiences have helped me to expand my research interests beyond solely fish. Currently, I am investigating the relationship between benthic fauna communities and fish communities, both locally, and at a wider, Indo-Pacific scale.