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Department of Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo is all ears as rehab czar Ping Lacson examines the Tacloban City map showing the damages wrought by Super Typhoon Yolanda. In this meeting, held recently at the University of the Philippines-National Engineering Center, Engr. Louie Favila presented her team’s damage assessment on Tacloban City based on the map generated through the project called Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation-Light Detection and Ranging or DREAM-LiDAR. Said project, a component of DOST’s- Project NOAH or the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, develops flood hazard maps using LiDAR technology, with priority on the 18 major river basins in the country. (Photo by Henry A. de Leon/Text by Framelia V. Anonas, S&T Media Service)

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Forester Arsenio B. Ella, a scientist conferred under the Scientific Career System and based at the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) was chosen as one of the three Outstanding Filipinos (TOFIL) for 2013, a prestigious award co-established by JCI Senate Philippines and Insular Life Assurance Co. Ltd.

Forester Ella was awarded under the Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development category.

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Pacol, a wild variety of banana and a close relative of saging na saba, was used to create a disease-free breed of abaca.

In a project dubbed “Production of High Yielding and Virus-resistant Abaca Hybrids”, experts were able to do this by using molecular markers in a biotechnology process called genetic engineering. This collaborative project among agencies such as the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for  Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD), University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB), and Department of Agriculture-Biotech

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The Governing Board of the Department of Science and Technology - National Research Council of the Philippines named Dr. Carina Galvez Lao as its new executive director.

Dr. Lao is not new in the DOST System.  Before being chosen as the Council’s new Executive Director, Dr. Lao worked at the DOST Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Atmospheric Services Administration (PAGASA) for 39 years (1974 - present).  She was Assistant Weather Services Chief before joining NRCP.