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Mar 19, 2021
[Mar 2021] Welcome Sheena and Calvin!
Sheena and Calvin have joined the TIDE Group as research assistants in the Seed Funding for Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Scheme,...
Jan 19, 2021
[Jan 2021] Yifei starts his PhD as a joint PhD student with Northeastern University, USA
Congratulations to Yifei who became the first joint PhD student between HKU's Faculty of Science and Northeastern University, USA as part...
Jan 14, 2021
[Jan 2021] Yvonne Joins the TIDE Group as an Intern Student
Yvonne from the HKU ENVM Programme has joined us for her internship throughout semester 2. She has developed a strong interest and...
Dec 22, 2020
[Dec 2020] BIG congratulations to Mei!
BIG congratulations to Mei who passed her thesis defense the other day! Now we can concentrate on the fieldwork and experiment to...
Dec 22, 2020
[Dec 2020] MoU signed with University of the Philippines - Visayas
We have just signed a MoU with University of the Philippines (UoP) - Visayas as part of our RGC grant to look at acclimation to thermal...
Dec 7, 2020
[Nov 2020] New MoU and student at Prince Songkla University
Following on from our research trip earlier this year, this November we signed a new MoU with Prince of Songkla University through Dr...
Oct 29, 2020
[Oct 2020] Tommy appears in the media
Tommy recently took part in filming a local documentary with RTHK (see the video below). He was interviewed by Ming Pao as well (Click...
Oct 26, 2020
[Oct 2020] Welcome to the TIDE Group, Valerie
Valerie, the senior research assistant of our ECF project (Hong Kong rocky shore biodiversity baseline evaluation), has joined us in...
Sep 9, 2020
[Sept 2020] Steven has joined us!
Steven studied species richness on artificially restored oyster reefs in the last two years and he has joined our research group this...
Sep 3, 2020
[Sept 2020] Sarah has returned from her thesis-writing cave!
Sarah has recently submitted her PhD thesis and now awaits the oral defense to become a real DOCTOR. Before that, she will be working as...
Aug 27, 2020
[Aug 2020] Brian joins the TIDE Team
Welcome to Brian LEUNG Kai Hin who recently completed his BSc at HKU. Brian completed a project on standing behaviour of sandy shore...
Aug 18, 2020
[Aug 2020] New ECF grant started
We have just started an Environment and Conservation Fun project to conduct a baseline evaluation of Hong Kong's rocky shores, which will...
Aug 3, 2020
[Aug 2020] Adrian met the Grim Reaper (summer mortality) on Hong Kong rocky shores
Last week, Adrian observed great mortality of his studied species — Lottia dorsuosa. He then found more dead bodies of other species,...
Jul 20, 2020
[Jul 2020] Fayeeja is working on her summer project with us!
Fayeeja, as part of HKU’s Summer Research Fellowship programme, is working on determining the thermal tolerance of a group of intertidal...
Jul 16, 2020
[Jul 2020] Christy, our summer internship, is working with tides
Christy from the HKBU College of International Education has joined us as a summer internship for more than one month. She has been...
Jun 26, 2020
[Jun 2020] New paper's out!
Click here to check out our forthcoming paper on the metabolic depression pattern of the high shore rock oyster Isognomon nucleus in...
May 18, 2020
[May 2020] Hong Kong Coastal Biodiversity GIS — a new feature on our website
Vincent, our research assistant, developed a web-based geographic information system (GIS) application of Hong Kong marine biodiversity...
Mar 30, 2020
[Mar 2020] Alicia's new workplace
Alicia, PhD awarded in 2019 in the TIDE Group, is now working as a marine biologist at Labway Biotechnology, on developing a sustainable...
Mar 20, 2020
[Mar 2020] A New RGC Grant on local adaptation vs phenotypic plasticity
Our group has recently started a project granted by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council together with JD Gaitán-Espitia to investigate...
Feb 12, 2020
[Feb 2020] Hi Aaron!
Aaron Tsang from Macquarie University, Australia, came to Hong Kong (during his summer break) and worked with the TIDE Group as an...
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