Wan Lin and Nicole (left); Nicole and Sonia (right) Hi there! We are Nicole Dorville, Ng Wan Lin and Sonia Lee from the TEE Lab! Nicole is a PhD student studying the microclimates and habitats along the Nature Ways, Wan Lin is the Project Officer of the project, and Sonia is a Research Associate. Nicole has recently finished her fieldwork, and so we’d come together to share with you how this process has been. A little bit of context – Nature Ways are everyday pedestrian walkw

The Tropical Ecology & Entomology Lab ( TEE Lab ) from the Asian School of the Environment, College of Science, Nanyang Technological University, had the privilege of showcasing our research at the ArtScience Museum's exhibition Insects: Microsculptures Magnified .  TEE Lab outing at Insects: Microsculptures Magnified. Photo 2026 Marx Yim. This exhibition features stunning portraits of insect specimens from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History captured by photogra

From 15-18 December 2025, TEE Lab Research Assistant Nagichetty Ashok Poorvi attended the British Ecological Society 2025 Annual Meeting , held in Edinburgh, to share about some of the lab's ongoing work on fungal communities and functional traits across leaf litter and soil. Let's hear from Poorvi about her experience! :) In December last year, I had the privilege of sharing my work on the fungal communities of Singapore’s tropical forests. I presented a poster titled: Shif

The Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) Lab  at the Asian School of the Environment, College of Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, was recently featured on  Channel News Asia (CNA)  for its work on the AMBER Project  — AI and Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI)  — showcasing how artificial intelligence is being integrated into biodiversity monitoring in Singapore. Developed through a collaboration between the Alan Turing Institute , the UK Centre

Our recent study, Towards red listing understudied tropical insects: A case study of the dung beetles of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo , has been featured in East Malaysia's daily newspaper, The Borneo Post ! We thank Dr Arthur Chung and Datuk Frederick Kugan for the opportunity to contribute this article in collaboration with the Sabah Forestry Department. Check out the article and our publication in these links: Study puts Sabah’s dung beetles on the global con­ser­va­tion map To