Behind The Science Podcast

👤Guest Speaker: Raquel Felix, PhD This episode highlights the work of Dr. Raquel Felix on modelling the tsunami scenarios in Lombok and Bali, Indonesia. Dr. Felix is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Coastal Lab at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She completed her PhD in 2023 at NTU, within the Asian School of the Environment (ASE). Her r...

Guest Speaker: Iris Mabanta MS Marine Science Student UP Marine Science Institute --- #BehindTheSciencePodcast is presented to you by the Marine & Earth Science Learning Hub, UP Resilience Institute, and Liknayan Podcast. Do you want to share your research? Sign up through this https://forms.gle/6cEU78144zD7By5z5⁠.

Guest Speaker: Kevin Garas, PhD Senior Geologist Mines and Geosciences Bureau - DENR --- Research spotlight: K.L. Garas, T. Watanabe, A. Yamazaki (2023) Hydroclimate seasonality from paired coral Sr/Ca and δ18O records of Kikai Island, southern Japan: evidence of East Asian monsoon during mid-to late Holocene . Quat. Sci. Rev., 301 (2023), Article 107926 #BehindTheSciencePodcast is presented to yo...

Guest Speaker: Deo Carlo Llamas, MSc Science Research Specialist Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology --- Research spotlight: Llamas, D. C. E., Perez, J. S., Legaspi, C. J. M., Acid, J. J. S, Naing, J. P. S., and Papiona, N. K., 2024, Stress releases and seismic gaps: Earthquake sequences strike Eastern Mindanao, Philippines , Temblor #BehindTheSciencePodcast is presented to you by t...

Guest Speakers: 1) Dominic Panaligan - Instructor & MS Food Science Student, UP Diliman 2) Isaac Sy - BS Computer Engineering Student, UP Diliman Research spotlight: Panaligan D, Sy ICB, Sarza RM. 2024. Harnessing artificial intelligence in microbial food safety: global progress and implications in the ASEAN region . International Journal of Food Science & Technology.‌ #BehindTheSciencePod...

A native of Iloilo, Dr. John Dale Dianala is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines - National Institute of Geological Sciences. His research focuses on understanding where, how often, and why earthquakes happen by studying how tectonic faults accumulate and release stress. He primarily works with satellite radar (InSAR) and GPS data to map and model earthquake sources and the...

Ms. Lala Grace Calle is currently an editor at Cactus Communications. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Fisheries from the University of the Philippines Visayas and is currently pursuing a Master of Marine Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman. From 2017 to 2021, she worked with the Coral Reef Ecology Laboratory, where her team concentrated on assessing the status of giant clams in...

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Ms. Ruth Esther Delina-Agillon is a PhD student specializing in environmental mineralogy and geochemistry at the Interface Geochemistry section of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. She obtained her MSc in Geology from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she also served as an instructor. Her passion for teaching and research led her to extend her MSc work on Philippine ni...

Ms. Joy Santiago is a geographer and licensed environmental planner, currently serving as the only female Chief Science Research Specialist at the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute. She is also the Director of the Internal Audit Division at the Centre for Neighbourhood Studies Philippines. Ms. Santiago taught spatial analysis and cartography using geographic information systems at...

Michael Y. Roleda is a Professor at the Marine Science Institute of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. His passion for tropical seaweeds started in the early 1990s cataloguing their biodiversity and worked on the biology and biochemistry of an agarophyte,  Gelidiella acerosa . Further graduate study and postdoctoral fellowships in Germany, Sweden, and Scotland enabled him to work on cold-t...

Engr. Eros Paul Estante is a licensed chemical engineer and academic researcher with over six years of experience specializing in life cycle assessment and carbon footprint accounting for agricultural commodities, organizations, and academic institutions. Currently, he works as a researcher at the University of the Philippines Los Baños Interdisciplinary Life Cycle Assessment Laboratory (UPLB-ICAL...

Goldyn Anne A. Comisario is an academic who continuously commits to inspiring her students to achieve their best in life. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Fisheries at Central Luzon State University. She advanced her passion for diadromous fishes and higher education teaching by obtaining a Master of Science in Marine Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman, a Postgraduate Cert...

Dr. Maricar Rabonza is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Asian School of the Environment and the Disaster Analytics for Society Lab at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU). She obtained her PhD from NTU and has conducted research on time-dependent disaster risk modelling and quantification of risk reduction benefits. Her work led to the creation of the Averted Disaster Award, suppo...

Mr. Jason Braga is working as an instructor at the Cavite State University-Main Campus. He is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Food Technology and Master of Science in Food Science and Technology from the Visayas State University in Leyte. Currently, he is a Ph. D. student of the Laboratory of Molecular Nutrition at the Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University.  Hi...

Mr. John Romel Flora is a former University Research Associate of the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS) of the University of the Philippines – Diliman. He obtained his B.Sc. Geology degree from UP Diliman - NIGS, and is currently pursuing a graduate degree from the same institute. He is a member of the Engineering Geology Laboratory of Dr. Sandra Catane, with whom he has worked with...

Dr. Jabez Flores is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in UP Los Banos, Master of Environment and Natural Resources Management major in upland resources management in UP Open University, and Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science with a cognate in Development Communication in UPLB. He was a DOST-SEI graduate scholar and a SEARCA PhD Research Scholar. Jabez is an associate member of...

Dr. Angel T. Bautista VII is a Scientist I and the current Section Head of the Nuclear Materials Research Section of the DOST – Philippine Nuclear Research Institute. He obtained his BS Chemistry and MS Environmental Science degrees from UP Diliman, and PhD in Nuclear Engineering and Management from the University of Tokyo. He has been working at DOST-PNRI since 2009, where he specializes in the e...

Khelly is previously a part of the Volcano-Tectonics laboratory of UP-NIGS. He holds a graduate degree in Geology from the University of the Philippines, along with undergraduate degrees in Geology and Geological Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology. Together with Dr. Mahar Lagmay and Dr. Sotiris Valkaniotis, they harnessed satellite data to quantify ground movements caused by the magnit...

Mr. Rodney Pino is an MS Graduate Fellow under the CIP program of the DOST-SEI, currently deployed at the Institute of Mathematics, UP Diliman. He earned his bachelor's degree from Cebu Technological University and completed his master's in applied mathematics at UP Diliman. Rodney's research focuses on optical character recognition (OCR) of the Filipino pre-colonial script, Baybayin,...

Ms. Joey Cabasan discusses the importance of the Kalayaan Island Group and the Scarborough Shoal on the capture fisheries production in the country. She also shares her experiences during the various research cruises they conducted during these studies. Joey is currently a Project Technical Specialist at the University of the Philippines Mindanao under the Coral Reef Resiliency and Ecology Studies...

Dr. Janneli Lea A. Soria is a geologist and science educator. She received her PhD in Earth Science from the Asian School of the Environment and a post-doctoral research fellowship from the Earth Observatory of Singapore, both at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She also holds an MS and Bachelors in Geology from UP Diliman. She collaborates with other geologists, oceanographers, engi...

Ms. Carmille Escape shares some of her work during the past 10 years with Project NOAH. She also shares their study about the cause of the 2018 Naga City landslide in Cebu. Ms. Escape currently works as a Surveying, GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist with the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES). Featured article: Lagmay AMF, Escape CM, Ybañez AA, Suarez JK, Cuaresma G. 202...

Dr. Cynthia Saloma of the UP - National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology recalls the events during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the role of the Philippine Genome Center in the COVID-19 response. This podcast is co-presented by the UP Diliman College of Science, and the UP Resilience Institute.

Dr. Mahar Lagmay of the UP - Resilience Institute shares their recent findings about the tephra fall and base surge deposits from the 2020 Taal eruption. He also shares how he became a scientist and some notable contributions of Filipino volcanologists in the field of volcanology. Featured articles: Lagmay et al. (2021). Hazardous base surges of Taal’s 2020 eruption . Scientific Reports 11(1):1570...