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Aug 21, 2023
[Aug 2023] Emilio in Hong Kong!
Following our visit to Vigo – Emilio joined us back to look at mating behaviour in Echinolittorina malaccana. Using the specially...
Aug 21, 2023
[July 2023] Visiting Vigo and ISOLBE XIII
Gray and Sarah spent part of July visiting Emilio Rolan-Alvarez to continue our collaboration on snail mate choice mechanisms and the...
Aug 21, 2023
[July 2023] Summer teaching - Gray joined the BIOL3005 course to Australia
This year Gray started teaching on the Tropical and Temperate Marine Ecology course to Australia. Together with Bayden, Stefano and 20...
May 16, 2023
[May 2023] Back to Si Chang Island with Monthon Ganmanee
Finally after COVID we have been able to return to Si Chang Island to continue research with Monthon Ganmanee and students into the...
Apr 30, 2023
[Apr 2023] Goodbye and see you later, Valerie
After two + action packed years, including dealing with the COVID pandemic, Valerie has left us to return to Ireland. Valerie led the...
Apr 19, 2023
[Mar 2023] We brought HKU undergraduates to "rock" on South African shores!
We had our overseas field course in Tsitsikamma, South Africa with 12 HKU undergraduates + 4 postgraduates (including our PhD student...
Apr 7, 2023
[Mar 2023] Universitas 21: more on the South African field course
As part of an ongoing Universitas 21 project led by Elisa Bone (University of Melbourne), Gray and Richard Greenfield led a group of...
Feb 20, 2023
[Feb 2023] Harbour Circle Symposium at Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Gray joined one of the discussion panels at HK Maritime Museum’s ‘Harbour Circle Symposium’ in their new Swire Marine Discovery Centre. ...
Feb 20, 2023
[Jan 2023] TIDE at ITRS 2023
The TIDE group finally made it to the long awaited International Temperate Reef Symposium (ITRS, https://itrs2023.org/) at Hobart between...
Dec 16, 2022
[Dec 2022] Ben won the best presenter award in EBRS!
Ben and Jackson from the TIDE Group attended the 2nd Annual Ecology & Biodiversity Research Symposium (EBRS) from 1 to 2 Dec 2022. Ben...
Oct 14, 2022
[Oct 2022] An update on Steven — Is he studying in a less stressful (thermally) environment?
Steven has been to the University of Exeter to pursue his master's degree in data science (ecology and evolution) for about a month. He,...
Oct 12, 2022
[Oct 2022] More sorting work for the ecosystem engineer RGC team!
Back in June this year, we established experimental plots (controlling % cover of the oyster Saccostrea cuccullata and the mussel...
Oct 6, 2022
[Oct 2022] Post-Doc wanted!
We're looking for some passionate ecologist to join us in solving the mystery of how intertidal species cope with such a thermally harsh...
Sep 27, 2022
[Sep 2022] See you around — Steven
Steven (a.k.a. the bouldering bivalve expert) is going to UK to pursue his master's degree after the two-year intensive field surveys of...
Sep 15, 2022
[Aug 2022] All field surveys done for the rocky shore biodiversity ECF!
Back on 9 December 2020, we started our first biodiversity survey at Starfish Bay for our rocky shore biodiversity ECF project. Since...
Sep 14, 2022
[August 2022] New collaboration with Mechanical Engineering Department, HKU
Yifei has started a new collaboration with Haotian Li, a postgraduate supervised by Dr Fu Zhang from the Mechatronics and Robotic Systems...
Jul 25, 2022
[July 2022] Welcome a new RA and summer helper!
A BIG welcome to Amy as a new RA helping with the Lantau project and Vinicius as a summer helper doing a lot of fieldwork with us! Amy...
Jul 25, 2022
[July 2022] Lantau project starts!
Tommy’s new survey of the impacts of thermal and salinity variation on the rocky shores of Lantau is now underway with setting out...
Jul 25, 2022
[June 2022] New RGC project kicks off with summer manipulations
The new RGC team of Jackson, Calvin and Alex have started the manipulation of different beds of ecosystem engineers (oysters and mussels)...
Jul 25, 2022
[May 2022] May arrives!
Welcome May, an exchange master student from Farng’s lab in Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, is staying with us for 6 months and...
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