Call for volunteers to coordinate coastal cleanups in Singapore for 2016 [deadline: 12 Feb 2016]

The volunteer coordinators of the International Coastal Cleanup in Singapore are searching for motivated individuals who would like to contribute to the betterment of the marine environment.

Volunteers will conduct evaluations of beaches and mangroves prior to cleanups, learn about marine life, liase with Organisers, help plan workshops, process data, conduct outreach activities as well as leading by example during beach and mangrove cleanups!

We are looking for Zone Captains and Site Captains who are able to commit to our 2016 Calendar of events. Check the full calendar of dates. If you fit the bill and can make the dates, sign up to join the ICCS Otters and we will be in touch! The first briefing session for new applicants will be on Fri 05 Feb 2016 in NUS at 7.00pm. There will be second briefing date in mid-February.

We are a dedicated team who have been coordinating the International Coastal Cleanup in Singapore for more than a decade. We work with Organisers from more than 60 organisations and institutions who lead some 4,000 volunteers to the beach and mangroves of Singapore in September, and with Organisers of Year-Round Coastal Cleanups.

We keep meetings and emails to a minimum in order to sustain this effort alongside our regular jobs long-term. So to work with us, you need to be responsive and dedicated. If unfamiliar, you will be introduced to our use of digital tools and field-preparation.

If you think this sounds like something you could do, we would be most happy to welcome you!

Do sign up here by 12 Feb 2016!

See you on the beach!

Cheerio!
Sivasothi
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N. Sivasothi
Coordinator,
International Coastal Cleanup Singapore
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
& Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore

What do ICCS Zone Captains do?

Shoreline recces

Workshop Tutorials

Just the few meetings!

ICCS Lecture dialogues

School Talks

Briefing volunteers

Coastal cleanup!

Getting stuck!

Every piece counts

Weighing trash

Feeling accomplished!

Washing gloves!

Data processing

Fellowship through year-round action

Call for volunteer Site Captains to coordinate coastal cleanups in Singapore – deadline: 15 March 2015!

The volunteer coordinators of the International Coastal Cleanup in Singapore are conducting a recruitment exercise to search for motivated individuals who want to contribute to the betterment of the marine environment.

Volunteers will conduct evaluations of beaches and mangroves prior to cleanups, learn about marine life, liase with Organisers, help plan workshops, process data, conduct outreach activities as well as leading by example during beach and mangrove cleanups!

We are looking for Site Buddies and Site Captains who are able to commit to our 2015 Calendar of events. Check the full calendar of dates. If you fit the bill and can make the dates, sign up to join the ICCS Otters!

We are a dedicated team who have been coordinating the International Coastal Cleanup in Singapore for more than a decade. We work with Organisers from more than 60 organisations and institutions who lead some 4,000 volunteers to the beach and mangroves of Singapore in September, and with Organisers of Year-Round Coastal Cleanups.

We keep meetings and emails to a minimum in order to sustain this effort alongside our regular jobs long-term. So to work with us, you need to be responsive and dedicated. If unfamiliar, you will be introduced to our use of digital tools and field-preparation.

If you think this sounds like something you could do, we would be most happy to welcome you!

To join us, sign up here by 15 Mar 2015!

See you on the beach!

Cheerio!

Sivasothi
—
N. Sivasothi
Coordinator,
International Coastal Cleanup Singapore
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
& Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore

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What do ICCS Zone Captains do?

Shoreline recces

Workshop Tutorials

Just a few meetings!

ICCS Lecture dialogues

School Talks

Briefing volunteers

Coastal cleanup!

Getting stuck!

Every piece counts

Weighing trash

Feeling accomplished!

Washing gloves!

Data processing

Fellowship through year-round action

A call for volunteers to help coordinate coastal cleanups in Singapore!

The volunteer coordinators of the International Coastal Cleanup in Singapore are conducting a recruitment exercise to search for motivated individuals who want to contribute to the betterment of the marine environment.

Volunteers will conduct evaluations of beaches and mangroves prior to cleanups, learn about marine life, liase with Organisers, help plan workshops, process data, conduct outreach activities as well as leading by example during beach and mangrove cleanups!

We are looking for Site Buddies and Site Captains who are able to commit to a maximum of ten days between March and September 2014. Check the full calendar of dates. If you fit the bill, sign up here!

We are a dedicated team who have been coordinating the International Coastal Cleanup in Singapore for more than a decade. We work with Organisers from more than 60 organisations and institutions who lead some 4,000 volunteers to the beach and mangroves of Singapore in September, and with Organisers of Year-Round Coastal Cleanups.

We keep meetings and emails to a minimum in order to sustain this effort alongside our regular jobs long-term. So to work with us, you need to be responsive and dedicated. If unfamiliar, you will be introduced to our use of digital tools and field-preparation.

If you think this sounds like something you could do, we would be most happy to welcome you!

To join us, sign up here!

See you on the beach!

Cheerio!

Sivasothi
—
N. Sivasothi
Coordinator, International Coastal Cleanup Singapore
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research
Department of Biological Sciences
National University of Singapore

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What do ICCS Zone Captains do?

Shoreline recces

Workshop Tutorials

ICCS Lecture dialogues

School Talks

Briefing volunteers

Coastal cleanup!

Getting stuck!

Every piece counts

Weighing trash

Feeling accomplished!

Washing gloves!

Data processing

Fellowship through year-round action

Help battle marine trash on World Oceans Day cleanup @ PR6 (9th June, 8.30am)

It’s World Oceans Day on the 8th June! What better way to celebrate World Oceans Day by doing meaningful for our shores? The seas have provided us with much resources, many of which we have taken for granted, food and even oxygen from phytoplankton. Even if you live far inland, the oceans and us are interconnected on many different levels.

This World Oceans Day, we encourage you to take this opportunity to give back to the oceans! Make a difference to the marine life that call our shores their home and personally experience the impacts of plastic on our shore. We invite you to come celebrate World Oceans Day with a 90 minutes coastal cleanup activity at “hidden beach paradise”Pasir Ris Site 6 (PR6).

Sign up here by Wed 6th June 2012:
http://tinyurl.com/yrcc-pr6-2012

Your efforts will help reduce the high trash load at PR6 which usually consists of plastic bags, food wrappers and straws. These plastics can cause damage to the marine ecosystem and might eventually break down to microplastics and enter the food chain. These concentrations of toxic chemicals leeched from the plastics may magnify and move up the food chain to reach back to humans. Besides removing marine trash, learn about the diversity of marine life just at our own shores! These shores are often overlooked but are teeming with life!

Learn their identities when you head down to Pasir Ris on June 9th!

EVENT DETAILS

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For those interested in tackling Pasir Ris Site 6, do note the following:

Date: 9 Jun 2012
Meeting Time: 8.30am (The session will end around 11.30am.)
Meeting place:  Pasir Ris Park BBQ Pit No. 64

Volunteers for Pasir Ris Site 6, please sign-up at http://tinyurl.com/yrcc-pr6-2012!

Note:  It takes around 10 minutes to walk from the nearest carpark (Carpark E) / bus stop to the site. For more details, you can refer to this page.

You will meet our friendly Northeast Zone Captains: Ng Kai Scene, Lim Chen Kee & Yang Yiyong.

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View our post on Earth Day clean up for a glimpse into what you may be involved in!

If you wish to share your photos with the community and want them in our ICCS Flickr repository, you can zip and wetransfer to iccs@rafflesmuseum.net. Please send the files with the following details (name of photographer, date, location).

ICCS 2010 Team and Recruitment

I finally found a breather to get started with ICCS this year. About the first thing I do before sending the materials order to the Ocean Conservancy is to finalise the team coordinating the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore. The ICCS Otters come from the Raffles Museum Toddycats and most are veterans of many years of contribution.

Each year, I ask everyone if they are able to help out or need to sit out a year. Eventually, the names stagger in to become a list and I gave it plenty of time this year as I was pretty much exhausted myself. This year’s list is as follows:

ICCS 2010 Team

• Northeast Zone Captains – Ng Kai Scene, Cheong Wei Siong, Lim Chen Kee
• Pulau Ubin Zone Captain – Tay Guan Hock
• Changi Zone Captains – Kok Oi Yee, Teo Kah Ming
• East Zone Captain – Connie Hon [new recruit]
• South Zone Captain – Kelly Ong
• Northewest Zone Captain – N. Sivasothi
• Pandan Site Captain – Ouyang Xiuling [new recruit, NUS undergraduate]
• Lim Chu Kang Site Captain – ???
• ICC Penang – Alison Wee
• Webpage – Charina Ong [new recruit, NUS Staff]
• Data Captain – Airani S
• Dy Coordinator – Andy Dinesh
• Coordinator – N. Sivasothi

It is obvious recruitment is critical, so we are working on that now through Raffles Museum Todddycats. The role involves organisation, admin, education and field work and not meant for the faint-hearted!

If this sounds like your cup of tea and you would like to help out in Singapore’s oldest and largest grassroots environment programme, sign up at the Raffles Museum Toddycats recruitment page at http://toddycats-join.rafflesmuseum.net/. You’ll welcome you with open arms!
 

ICCS Positions I am recruiting for:

• East Coast Zone Captains (two)
• Lim Chu Kang Site Captain
• Northwest Zone Captain
• Pulau Ubin Site Captains (more than one required)
• Photo & Blog Captain
• Education Captain

Cheerio!

Sivasothi

P. S. this was last year’s calendar:

ICCS Otter Calendar for 2009
Planning Meetings

Coordinator (N. Sivasothi) & Dy Coordinator (Lim Chen Kee)

• Thu 22 Jan 2009: Coordinators meeting I
• Sat 14 Mar 2009: Coordinators meeting II
• Sat 28 Mar 2009: Coordinators meeting III

Preprarations
Coordinators: ICCS Otters

• Fri 20 Feb 2009: 7pm – ICCS Otters Meeting 1 (Year plan briefing and SOP)
• Fri 03 Apr 2009: 7pm – ICCS Otters Meeting 2 (Google Forms Workshop)
• Fri 05 Jun 2009: 7pm – ICCS Otters Meeting 3 (Review veteran registration)
• Fri 03 Jul 2009: 7pm – ICCS Otter Meeting 4 (Workshop preparation)

Registration

• Tue 14 Apr 2009: Invitation letters to 2008 Organisers
• Tue 21 Apr 2009 – 15 May 2009: Registration through webpage (veterans)
• Tue 09 Jun 2009: Registration opens via webpage (newbies)

Education programme

• Sat 11 Jul 2009: 8am – 12pm: ICCS Organiser’s Workshop
• Sat 05 Sep 2009: 8am – 12pm: ICCS Site Buddy Briefing

International Coastal Cleanup

• Sat 05 Sep 2009: 2pm – 5pm: ICCS Mangrove Recce (SP, KR, LCK, PU)
  Tide: 3pm – 5pm: 2.0m – 0.9m
• Sat 12 Sep 2009: 8am – 12pm: ICCS Mangrove
  Tide: 8am – 11am: 1.7m – 1.7m
• Sat 19 Sep 2009 : 8am – 12pm: ICCS Beach
  Tide: 8am – 10am: 1.3m – 3.0m

Data submission and Phase II

• Sat 19 Sep 2009: 2pm – 5pm: ICCS Otters Meeting 5 (data, blogs & Debrief)
• 03 Oct 2009: Phase II cleanups (to be confirmed)
• 01 Nov 2009: Data submission to Ocean Conservancy