Bidong Island

lt;p>Ong Meng Chuan is an Associate Professor in Marine Science at Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.  He holds a doctoral degree in Marine Pollution specifically in Metals Pollution from University of South Brittany, France. His research focus on the metallic elements content in sediment samples which can act as geo-marker for pollution studies. He also studied the sediment characteristic and the relationship between particle size and the metallic elements concentration.  Apart from the sediment samples, his research also includes on biota samples of fishes, crustaceans, bivalves, mollusks and plants such as seaweed and sea grass.  From this biota samples, the suitability of using these organisms as bio-indicator can be identified which best reflect the environmental quality. Risk assessment towards human health by consuming these organisms can be estimated. Until now, he had participated in numbers of international conference and local conference in Malaysia to present his findings.  He also actively published his finding in local Malaysia and international journal. He had been published 60 journals and attended more than 20 conferences and reviewer for numbers of journals. Currently, together with the researchers in Ocean Pollution and Ecotoxicology (OPEC) Research Interest Group and other researchers from other universities and organization, the group are actively gather all data from Malaysian marine aquatic environment to be stored in GIS database. With this database, these data can easily bereferred by other researchers for their studies.

Melissa Beata Martin is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Coordinator of the Marine Biology Programme of the Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT). She received her Diploma in Fisheries and Bachelor of Science (Marine Biology) at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu and her PhD in Fisheries Science from University of Tasmania, Australia. Though specialising in taxonomy, phylogeny and systematics (with emphasis on parasitic isopods of the family Cymothoidae), she has expanded her interest in elucidating the diversity of crustaceans in Malaysian waters, parasites of aquatic organisms and symbiotic associates of marine organisms. Some of her current research is looking into co-invasive parasites of Peacock bass and native fish species in Terengganu waters, diversity of isopods, crustacean decapods and benthic crustaceans in Peninsular Malaysia, and even resolving the taxonomy of freshwater minnows in South Africa (one of her many collaborative initiatives). She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, which includes Zootaxa, Zookeys, Records of the Australian Museum, Crustaceana, Aquaculture, Thalassas and Data in Brief. She is also a recipient of the Tasmania Graduate Research Scholarship, Australian Museum Geddes Postgraduate Award and UMT's Academic Service Award. Due to her first love of taxonomy, some of her many research networks includes Australia Museum, Sydney; Museum of Tropical Queensland; Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart and South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity. In addition to her research responsibilities, she teaches undergraduate courses, which includes biological classification of marine organisms, marine invertebrate biology, marine biology field sampling course, biological oceanography and marine ecology.

Mohd Yusoff Nurulnadia is a lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. She received her PhD in Aquatic Toxicology from the Kagoshima University, Japan; MSc from the International Islamic University Malaysia; BSc from the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia. Her research discipline is in applied toxicology specifically on fish. Specialising in toxicology, she actively pursuing research that applying toxicity testing using fish embryos, juvenile fish an

Chapter 1 - General Geology of Bidong Island, Terengganu.- Chapter 2 - Sustainable Economic Development of Bidong Island.- Chapter 3 - Historic Vietnamese Settlement of Bidong Island.- Chapter 4 - Species Richness of Plants in Bidong Island.- Chapter 5 - Community Structure and Diversity of Trees in Coastal Forest of Bidong Island, Terengganu.- Chapter 6 - Decapoda Crustaceans at the South China Sea Repository and Reference Centre in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia.- Chapter 7 - Checklist of Lichens From Bidong Island, Terengganu.- Chapter 8 - Diversity of Birds in Bidong Island.-Chapter 9 - Rapid Assessment of Terrestrial Fauna of Bidong Island, Malaysia.- Chapter 10 - Impact of Tropical Storm Pabuk on Intertidal Gastropods in Bidong Island, Malaysia.- Chapter 11 - Lunar Cycle Drives Migration of Zooplankton in Coral Reef of Bidong Island.- Chapter 12 - Modern Benthic Foraminifera in the Coral Reefs of Bidong Island, Terengganu.- Chapter 13 - Meiofauna from the Shipwrecks of Bidong Island, South China Sea.- Chapter 14 - Fish Distribution in Tropical Bidong Island, South China Sea Under Influence from Nearshore Sea Acidification.- Chapter 15 - Host Preferences and Colouration of Christmas Tree Worms, Spirobrancus corniculatus from Bidong Island.- Chapter 16 - Cellular Stress Response of Scleractinian Coral Acropora robusta and Acropora florida in Bidong Island, Malaysia.- Chapter 17 - Effects of pH on the Early Life Histories of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster Cf Solaris) in Bidong Island, Terengganu, South China Sea.- Chapter 18 - Metals Concentration in Coral Reef Fishes of Bidong Island During the 2017 to 2019 Marine Biology Fieldwork Course.- Chapter 19 - Heavy Metals in Surficial Sediment from Bidong Island, Southern South China Sea.