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Hydrobiology Singapore is a consulting firm that focuses on freshwater, marine, and environmental management. We are a team of passionate, young-minded, and enthusiastic consultants that strive to deliver integrated services, through our focus on technical excellence and high scientific expertise in our fields of work. Covid-19 has impacted many companies locally and globally. In Singapore,…

Join our Singapore Team- Environmental Consultant

Do you want to work on challenging, thought-provoking and truly interesting projects? An exciting role exists in Singapore for someone to join our organisation in a junior role. As an Environmental Consultant, this is an opportunity for you to consolidate and expand your career across those regions. You will have: To support field work conducted locally, support…

Mapping of Coastal and Marine Habitats in Singapore

Hydrobiology Singapore has been commissioned by the ‘National Parks Board’ (NParks) to map coastal habitats and shoreline types along the coastlines of Singapore. This is a very exciting project which requires the use of both remote sensing satellite imagery and ground truthing efforts to assess and characterise different coastal habitat and shoreline types throughout Singapore.…

Hydrobiology’s recent footprint in China

In the last week of April 2019, Dr Lin Quanhong- Senior Scientist for Marine and Coastal Sciences, from our Hydrobiology Singapore office attended a 3-day business mission trip, with those from Enterprise Singapore, Singapore Water Association and Sembcorp Industries Ltd to visit the local water industry, located in Nanjing. The visit commenced on the first…

eDNA sampling

Hydrobiology has adopted environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling for a number of projects in recent years. We are currently undertaking eDNA sampling in Brazil using our purpose-made Smith-Root backpack. A few litres of water provide enough information to determine resident fish species via the latest trace DNA testing methods. This quick tool informs biomonitoring programs and is…

Hydrobiology is now an approved Member of Singapore Water Association

Hydrobiology was recently approved as a member of Singapore Water Association (SWA).  Having more than 250 members, SWA is a dynamic collaboration among government sectors, institutions, consultants, contractors, suppliers and manufacturers, who are the important players in Singapore’s growing water industry. Never defining itself only within the “red dot”, SWA has established a collaborative network…

NiPERA Workshop

Hydrobiology contributed to the NiPERA Workshop on Advances in Risk Assessment Tools with Relevance to Tropical Southeast Asia and Melanesia (SEAM), held in Singapore this week.  The workshop was a wrap up of a 5 year research program into nickel bioavailability and ecotoxicity in the SEAM region.    Hydrobiology was responsible for collating water, sediment and soil…

Continued growth

Hydrobiology is happy to announce that we continue to grow across all facets of our business with two additions to the  team. Manjeeti is an experienced environmental scientist with experience in water quality analysis, habitat mapping as well as marine impact assessments and legal compliance. James is a senior scientist with experience in both freshwater…

bizSAFE Level 3

Hydrobiology Singapore has attained bizSAFE Level 3 certification! Hydrobiology takes a serious view on workplace health and safety and by attaining bizSAFE Level 3, we are being recognized by the Workplace Safety and Health Council (WSHC) of our safety efforts and achievement in Risk Management and WSH Management System. We hope this will give our clients a…

Tea with the Governor

We recently found ourselves in the magnificent grounds of Government House, the Brisbane residence of the Governor of Queensland.  No we didn’t climb over the wall nor were hired to cut the grass – but were invited to afternoon tea if you please, along with the other outstanding winners and finalists of the 2018 Queensland…