Biography
Dr Ooi Seng Keat (SK) is a Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Head of the Ecological Monitoring, Informatics and Dynamics group at the Tropical Marine Science Institute at the National University of Singapore. Before joining NUS in 2008, SK worked as a project engineer on Pulau Tekong, and as a research assistant as well as a research associate at IIHR Hydroscience & Engineering. Since he joined NUS, SK has worked in various capacities with the Singapore-Delft Water Alliance, Tropical Marine Science Institute and the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
SK’s research interests are in the issues associated with tropical environmental flows particularly inputs and interactions between the biota and the environment and how to model them. The implications of these interests lie in the domain of the potential impact in light of the changing climate and rapidly changing built-environment to water resources issues especially flows, water quality and ecology in the tropics which are not always well described.
Professional Positions Held
2013 – Present: Senior Research Fellow, Tropical Marine Science Institute, NUS
2011 – 2013: Senior Research Fellow, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance
2008 – 2011: Research Fellow, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance
2006 – 2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate, IIHR Hydroscience & Engineering, University of Iowa
1996 – 1999: Project Engineer Pulau Tekong Project, Sembcorp Construction.
Qualifications
PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Iowa, 2006
MSc (Civil Engineering), University of Iowa, 2000
BEng (Civil Structural Engineering) (First Class Honours), Nanyang Technological University, 1996
Teaching areas
CE2134
CE5377/6077
Research Interests
Coastal Engineering; Hydraulics; Water Resources Management; Environmental Fluid mechanics
Selected recent publications
- Chua MAH, Lane D, Ooi SK, Tay S and Kubodera T (2019). Diet and mitochondrial DNA haplotype of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) found dead off Jurong Island, Singapore. PeerJ. 7. 10.7717/peerj.6705.
- H. X. Tay, A. Kurniawan, S.K. Ooi, V. Babovic (2016). Sea level anomalies in straits of Malacca and Singapore. Appl. Ocean Res., vol. 58, pp. 104-117.
- Kurniawan, A, Hasan, GMJ, Ooi, S.K., Lee, W.K.,, Loh, L.L., and Bayen, S (2014). Understanding Hydrodynamic Flow Characteristics in a Model Mangrove Ecosystem in Singapore. 5th International Conference on Environmental Science and Development.
- Bayen, S., Zhang, H., Desai, M. M., Ooi, S. K., & Kelly, B. C. (2013). Occurrence and distribution of pharmaceutically active and endocrine disrupting compounds in Singapore’s marine environment: Influence of hydrodynamics and physicalchemical properties. Environmental Pollution, 182, 1–8