On 11 March, 2019, Prof. Jun Matsumoto and Dr. Lyndon Olaguera of the Tokyo Metropolitan University gave talks focusing on the monsoon seasons of the Philippines at the Manila Observatory. Prof. Matsumoto’s talk, entitled “Complex climatological summer monsoon onset processes over the Philippines,”...
The Resilience Collaboratory led the first scoping meeting for the Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) Coaching and Mentoring (C/M) Project in Iloilo City last 23-24 May 2019. This is a part of the Science and Technology track of the Resilient Local Government...
Manila Observatory Executive Director Dr. Gemma Narisma, along with Air Quality Dynamics and Instrumentation and Technology Development Laboratory co-heads Dr. Maria Obiminda Cambaliza and Dr. James Bernard Simpas joined other project participants in a Science Team Meeting (STM) with NASA in Pasadena, California...
The Jollibee Group Foundation (JGF) and their local government partners headed by Executive Director Gisela Tiongson reached out to the Manila Observatory for an introduction to Climate Change to supplement their projects that aim to support farming communities that supply the food conglomerate’s...
Dr. John Holdsworth, Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in the University of Newcastle Australia visited the Observatory last 22 April 2019 to talk about his experience with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and discussed how it can also...
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The Regional Climate Systems Laboratory participated in the Second Training Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling in Southeast Asia held in Hanoi, Vietnam last 22-26 October 2018. The workshop is organized by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, this is the second workshop in...
Through a research grant from the Department of Science Technology-Technology Application and Promotion Institute, Tekton Geometrix partnered with the Solid Earth Dynamics and Upper Atmosphere Dynamics laboratory in installing an accelerometer in the Manila Observatory to observe local ground shaking intensity. This instrument...
The Manila Observatory hosted a Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) Training for partner local government units (LGU) of the National Resilience Council (NRC) last 8-10 October 2018. For the first part of the training, 34 participants from LGUs and 11 from five...
Chief Forecaster of the Clouds Aerosols and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) and former technical advisor of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Mr. Ed Fukada visited the Manila Observatory last 11-13 September 2018. On 11-12 September, a workshop on fundamentals of tropical...
Dr. Candice Lung, Research Fellow at the Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, partner of the Air Quality Dynamics and Instrumentation Technology and Development Laboratory spoke in the Manila Observatory about her work in atmospheric science and public health last...
The Manila Observatory, represented by Executive Director Gemma Narisma, PhD signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) for two initiatives for risk and resilience last 19 October 2018 at the Manila Observatory. Dr. Hongey Chen, Director of the...
The Manila Observatory participated in this year’s Talakayang Alay sa Bayan (TALAB) of the Ateneo de Manila University on 10 October 2018. Hosting a topic on climate justice, Dr. Gemma Narisma, Fr. Jett Villarin, and Dr. Antonio La Viña all sat together to...
Senior Scientists of the Manila Observatory through the National Resilience Council has sat in meetings with the 1Bataan Resilience Team to talk about how the Observatory can help them in their projects aimed at resilience. On 10 September 2018, Drs. Gemma Narisma, James...
To foster ownership of what the Observatory does, coffee talks, or “kumustahan” are done in Café Mirador to keep the community updated with what research and administrative staff are doing. For the first talk, Drs. Obiminda Cambaliza and James Simpas, co-heads of the...
The Manila Observatory celebrated its 153rd anniversary on 27 September 2018. The community and partners were invited to a mass presided by Fr. Jun Viray, Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. The mass was co-celebrated by Fr. Tony Basilio...
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On 6 August 2018, the mini exhibit on Fr. Federico Faura, S.J. was launched by Manila Observatory’s Library and Archives. The exhibit showcases fragments of Fr. Faura’s life and scientific contributions to Philippine science as the first Director of the Manila Observatory. The...
Dr. Gemma Narisma and Dr. Faye Cruz attended the first lead authors meeting for the Working Group 1 contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) in Guangzou, China last 25-29 June 2018. Dr. Narisma worked on...
The Manila Observatory and Chevron Philippines Inc. (CPI) renewed their partnership on the Metro Weather project with a ceremonial Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signing last 10 July 2018. The Metro Weather project started in 2012, with the objective of informing the public about...