Charting New Frontiers
The 3rd International Science Youth Forum @ Singapore with Nobel Laureates (ISYF 2011)
The forum brings together elite science students and educators from across Asia to network with their counterparts and be inspired to further their interest in science and scientific research.
Japan is, by and large, well-prepared for earthquakes and tsunami. But they hadn't been expecting an earthquake and tsunami of the size that occurred on March 11, 2011. What happened, and what can we learn from it?
Singapore lies about five hundred kilometres from one of the world's most dangerous earthquake zones. How would Singapore be affected by an earthquake there? An Earth Observatory of Singapore study will help to find the answer.
We talked to Professor Robert (Bob) Wasson, a geomorphologist, who has joined the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in July 2011.