Daniel Friess

Cochran Family Professor- Earth and Environmental Sciences

School of Science and Engineering
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Additional Info

Number of Theses or Dissertations Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 4 

Research

Mangrove Forest Dynamics, Conservation, Restoration, Changes in Ecosystem Services Under Various Conditions, Ecosystems Services Policy, Habitat Restoration

Degrees

  • University Annual Teaching Excellence Award, Honour Roll, National University of Singapore, 2019-2022.
  • Dean’s Chair, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), NUS, 2019-2022

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Cochran Family Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2023-
  • Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Department of Geography, 2018-2022
  • Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Department of Geography, 2012-2017
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance & Biological Sciences, NUS, 2009-2011

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • United Kingdom
  • Singapore
  • Malaysia
  • China
  • Australia
  • Thailand
  • Germany
  • Philippines
  • Vietnam
  • Indonesia
  • Taiwan

Selected Publications

  • In press. Friess. The diversity of mangrove forests and geographical biases in their research. In press. Bulletin of Marine Science.
  • 2024. Friess et al., Mangrove forests: their status, threats, conservation and restoration. Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science 2nd Ed
  • 2023. Friess. Global mangrove mapping has gone mainstream. Science Bulletin 68, 2145-2147. [invited]
  • 2023. Friess. The potential for mangrove and seagrass blue carbon in Small Island States. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 64, 101324. [invited]
  • 2023. Friess, et al., Mangrove forests and climate change: impacts and interactions. In: Kennish, Paerl & Crosswell (Eds). Climate Change and Estuaries. CRC Press