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Dr. Gretchen Coffman

National University of Singapore
Department of Geography
1 Arts Link, #03-01 Block AS2, Singapore 117570

email: geogcc@nus.edu.sg

Twitter: @GenRestoreSG

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Made it to Darwin for the 10th World Conference on

Made it to Darwin for the 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration!!! Stunning sunset cruise around the estuary…. Happy recess week!!! Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones this week. 🤩 #generationrestoration #generationrestorationSG #thetrelab #nusgeography #nusenvironmentalstudies

Sabah Forestry Department’s Heart of Borneo Inte

Sabah Forestry Department’s Heart of Borneo International Conference 2023 venue! An amazing event bringing scientists, policy makers, and communities from all over Borneo together to discuss conservation and restoration of the incredible biodiversity and tropical ecosystems around the island of Borneo!!! #hob2023 #sicc #sabahforestrydepartment #generationrestoration #generationrestorationsg #undecadeonecosystemrestoration #nus #nusenvironmentalstudies #nusgeography

What an amazing day on the water with my Dolphin C

What an amazing day on the water with my Dolphin Club friends!!! It was our first Expedition around the SF Bay from China Camp beach north to Gallinas Creek and back 10.5km! Can’t wait for our next adventure….

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What an inspiration!!! Shui Meng Ng is a graduate

What an inspiration!!! Shui Meng Ng is a graduate of NUS Geography 1969…and founder of TaiBaan Shop in Vientiane, Laos. She works with minority communities around Lao to make and sell their traditional wares, including silk and Cotten textiles and handicrafts. #nusgeography #nus

What an amazing Friday at the National University

What an amazing Friday at the National University of Laos Faculty of Forestry with Phetlasy and her Research Assistant! So impressed with your herbarium…. #GenerationRestoration #nusgeography

Finally back in Laos after more than 3 years!!! Am

Finally back in Laos after more than 3 years!!! Amazing to meet up with close colleagues and old friends…. #generationrestoration #maihingsam #thetrelab #nus

We premiered our NUS Roots to Reefs 360 film from

We premiered our NUS Roots to Reefs 360 film from Borneo at the 20th Annual International Ocean Film Festival to more than 200 adults and children.Thank you to all my amazing volunteers who helped make the 360 VR program a huge success! #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #mangrovesareawesome #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography

Jewel – our largest waterfall in Singapore is quit

Jewel - our largest waterfall in Singapore is quite a spectacle! Our newest TRE Lab member Lara arrived on Saturday from Australia - University of Wollongong! Welcome to the land of super enormous indoor waterfalls and super trees!!! #generationrestoration #generationrestorationsg #thetrelab

Dr Wong Siew Te guest lectured about Wildlife Cons

Dr Wong Siew Te guest lectured about Wildlife Conservation Biogeography in our NUS GE2101 Methods and Practices in Geography course! He shared his experiences trapping, tagging, mapping and researching the distribution, ecology and feeding habits of sun bears in Borneo, black and grizzly bears in Montana and muntjac’s in Taiwan. What an engaging and inspiring Q and A session! Thank you Dr Wong for this sharing and all you do to protect and rehabilitate Sun Bears at your Borneo Sun Bear Conservation Centre and other large mammals in Borneo! #generationrestoration #generationrestorationsg #nusgeography #nusenvironmentalstudies #bsbcc #bsbccsepilok #nus #wongsiewte

Thanks @jess.birdie.lee for the AMAZING conservati

Thanks @jess.birdie.lee for the AMAZING conservation behind the scenes talk and walk with our NUS GE4224 Conservation Biogeography! What an engaging and inspiring introduction to Mandai Nature conservation efforts in Singapore and the SE Asian region! #generationrestoration #generationrestorationsg #thetrelab #mandainature #singaporezoo #nus #nusenvironmentstudies #nusgeography

NUS Conservation Biogeography class visited SBG fo

NUS Conservation Biogeography class visited SBG for a rainforest hike and a tour of the Herbarium, Seed Bank, Ethnobotany Museum and the Orchid Propagation Lab! What an AMazing Day botanizing and exploring the gardens together! Tropical botany and Biodiversity are simply remarkable! Can’t wait for our next conservation adventure at the Singapore Zoo, Lee Kong Chiang Natural History Museum and SEA Aquarium!!! #generationrestoration #generationrestorationsg #SabahCBERConference #nus #nusgeography #nusenvironmentalstudies #nusgeographicalsociety #thetrelab

We are off!!! On our first day of our Roots to Ree

We are off!!! On our first day of our Roots to Reefs 360 road tour, the TRE Lab team (Tropical Restoration Ecology) headed to KampOng to discuss our plans with Forever Sabah Institute in the year ahead working with local communities on ecosystem restoration. What a phenomenal view of Mt Kinabalu! Students and communities…. stay tuned for dates of our upcoming CBER - Community-based Ecosystem Restoration Conference in Sabah…. #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography #foreversabahinstitute #foreversabah #communitybasedecosystemrestoration

Our team set off for our amazing wild Borneo exped

Our team set off for our amazing wild Borneo expedition flying over the beautiful coral reefs around KK! Off to see the wildlife and communities living around the rainforests, rivers, mangroves, and coral reefs of Sabah. And on a Borneo Wonders road tour showing our new Roots to Reefs 360 immersive film to all those communities we are working with… We even showed the film to the TSA when they asked what the headsets were. #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography #tame

Such an amazing experience working with the bright

Such an amazing experience working with the brightest youth of Singapore! I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to share my immersive hands-on teaching with the students from the Geography Talent Development Programme. I introduced them to ecosystems, people and wildlife of Borneo through our Roots to Reefs 360 film in the NUS 360imx theatre - from the heart of Borneo’s rainforests to mangrove forests the size of Singapore to diving underwater with the turtles and sharks in the coral triangle! Thank you to my team for all your help with these activities - Geography Society President @LewisKwek who helped with the filming Q and A. And 4th year Geography student Yuki and founder Jason from #greenloop farms for introducing the students to Urban Agriculture and vertical farming by tasting microgreens and planting their very own greens! Thank you MOE teachers for inviting me to be a part of the TDP seminar series and for all your help at the event! #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography #geographysingapore

Happy Lunar New Year and Year of the Rabbit! This

Happy Lunar New Year and Year of the Rabbit! This was one of the happiest moments of my life. I got to release this little brush rabbit for one of the projects I am most proud of in California - helping restore habitat for the endangered riparian brush rabbit! The riparian brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani riparius), a subspecies of brush rabbit (S. bachmani), was listed as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act in 1994 and listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act in 2000. A wildlife lover since childhood in Atlanta Georgia on my 3rd birthday. #riparianbrushrabbit #yearoftherabbit2023

Day 5 – Leaving paradise and our friends at SORCE

Day 5 - Leaving paradise and our friends at SORCE after a successful Roots to Reefs 360 film tour, mangrove planting and coral reef restoration! We will be back soon…. Keep up the great work! #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography

Day 4 – My colleague Dr. Wei Luo and TRE Lab resea

Day 4 - My colleague Dr. Wei Luo and TRE Lab research assistants picked up drone flying instantly and in a matter of hours were flying our drone with the new Invisible Insta360 Sphere camera from the Roots of Mangrove we were planting to the Coral Reefs over the Sea! I even got to try! #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography

Day 3 – Our team joined the researchers and volunt

Day 3 - Our team joined the researchers and volunteers at SORCE field station to help with coral reef restoration underwater. What an amazing experience planting baby corals on the artificial reefs! #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography

Our team showed our new Roots to Reefs 360 film to

Our team showed our new Roots to Reefs 360 film to the volunteers and kids at the SORCE field station. Also, we learned to fly the drone with our new invisible 360 cam from mangrove ecosystems to seagrass beds to coral reefs in the estuary! Amazing team work!!! #Roots2Reefs360film #GenerationRestoration #GenerationRestorationSG #mangrovesareawesome #sorce #nus #nusbes #nusgeographicalsociety #nusgeography

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