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Sau Pinn Woo
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
465 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 65
Editor 400

Contributions by subject area

Marine Biology
Environmental Impacts
Biological Oceanography
Ecology
Paleontology
Zoology
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Natural Resource Management
Population Biology
Plant Science
Forestry
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Molecular Biology
Taxonomy
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Microbiology

Sau Pinn Woo

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr Woo received his PhD in Natural History Sciences from Hokkaido University. His interest of study includes systematics, taxonomy, and diversity study of marine invertebrates, focusing on the group Echinoderms. Since 2009, he has been actively uncovering the marine biodiversity and systematics of sea cucumbers across the region.

He is currently serving as a senior lecturer in the Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies (CEMACS), Universiti Sains Malaysia where he is also actively leading several marine biodiversity research in the Southeast Asian region that includes several taxa of marine invertebrate. At the global front, he is a serving in several UN Decade of Ocean Science Program ECOP co-chairs and also an active contributor to the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) programmes. At the same time, he is passionate in creating awareness and education of marine sciences to the society through various educational programmes done in CEMACS with the concept of experiential learning for marine sciences

Ecology Marine Biology Taxonomy Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Work details

Senior Lecturer

Universiti Sains Malaysia
August 2018
Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 4
  • Reviewed 1
November 1, 2023
Two new species of Parahesione (Annelida: Hesionidae) associated with ghost shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) and their phylogenetic relationships
Naoto Jimi, Hiroki Nakajima, Taigi Sato, Brett C. Gonzalez, Sau Pinn Woo, Greg W. Rouse, Temir Britayev
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16346 PubMed 37927790

Academic Editor on

August 19, 2025
Effects of Undaria pinnatifida-derived brown algae polysaccharide (UPS) on the nutritional composition, digestive capacity, immune performance and intestinal microbiota of juvenile sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus)
Jinghao Dong, Hailong Ma, Kuimei Liu, Wei Zhou, Suya Liu, Yongjun Sun, Wenming Ju, Shanshan Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19944 PubMed 40860657
April 4, 2025
Biomass allocation, carbon content change and carbon stock distribution of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongholica) plantation forests at different stand ages and densities in the sandy area of western Liaoning Province, China
Xin Ai, Xiangyu Yang, Zhaowei Zhang, Hao Chen, Wenhui Tang, Qingyu Wang, Yutao Wang, Ping Liu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19232 PubMed 40196303
February 21, 2025
Integrative taxonomy reveals three new species and one new record of Psychropotes (Holothuroidea, Elasipodida, Psychropotidae) from the Kermadec Trench region and the Wallaby-Zenith Fracture Zone
Yunlu Xiao, Haibin Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18806 PubMed 39995992
November 25, 2024
Method selection affects the estimates of residency and site fidelity in bottlenose dolphins: testing sensitivity and performance of different methods using mark-resight data
Israel Huesca-Domínguez, Eduardo Morteo, Luis Gerardo Abarca-Arenas, Brian C. Balmer, Tara M. Cox, Christian A. Delfín-Alfonso, Isabel C. Hernández-Candelario
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18329 PubMed 39611015

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

October 6, 2022
Shallow epifaunal sea cucumber densities and their relationship with the benthic community in the Okinawa Islands
Kohei Hamamoto, Angelo Poliseno, Taha Soliman, James Davis Reimer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14181 PubMed 36221267