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Faster and reliable real-time weather forecasts and flood warnings are expected to help people to prepare against typhoon-whipped disasters, the Department of Science and Technology said following an agreement with wireless communications giant Smart on co-location of telemetric rain gauges at the latter’s cell sites.

DOST through its weather forecasting agency, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration signed an agreement October 5 with Smart Communications initially covering the latter’s 63 cell sites nationwide.

“The co-location of our telemetric gauges in Smart cell sites will complement our on-going program to strengthen the capacity of PAGASA in issuing weather forecasts and flood warnings to the public,” DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo said.

Each telemetric rain gauge automatically sends rainfall data to PAGASA’s 44 Automatic Weather Stations in the form of short messaging system or SMS. The data are then posted real-time in PAGASA’s website [www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph].



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Please be informed that the Delphi Assembly for R&D Prioritization has been rescheduled on October 5, 2010, 1 to 5 PM at Rooms 2 and 3 of the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Pasay City.

We shall highly appreciate reconfirmation of your participation to this activity. You may get in touch with us through telephone nos. 8372932 or 837-2071 local 2075 or email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thank you very much.

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Filipino researchers are taking the fight against dengue right down to households where the health menace starts.

A research team from the Industrial Technology Development Institute of the Department of Science and Technology began field tests September 24 on its Ovicidal Trap System (OTS) for mosquitoes in Quezon City and Marikina City, respectively.

OTS is designed to significantly shrink the reproductive activities of mosquitoes through lure and catch. The month-long field tests covering 250 households in Barangays [villages] Bagbag in QC and Nangka in Marikina aim to validate the effectiveness of OTS.

The OTS kits will be collected every fifth day of each week for laboratory examination at the ITDI facility in Bicutan, Taguig City.

OTS is a simple trap system made of ordinary tin can (regular size evaporated milk) painted black and a strip of lawanit board (1 x 6.5 x 1/2 in.). An all-natural solution is poured into the can and by capillary action moistens the board. The moist lawanit board becomes like an ideal nest for female aedes mosquito (FAM) to lay its eggs on.

The tin can serves as the platform where reproductive activity happens. Inside it is a lawanit strip where the FAM supposedly would lay eggs until they hatch while the ovicidal solution, which also works as FM attractant, kills the eggs and larva in the process.

Based on ITDI laboratory tests, the OTS wipes out 100% of FAM eggs and larva.

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We are very sorry to inform you that Secretary Mario G. Montejo has decided to postpone the September 28, 2010 Delphi Assembly on the National R&D Priorities Plan (NRDPP) at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Pasay City to a later date as he wants to be given the opportunity to actively participate in said activity. He will be out of the country from September 23, 2010 to October 1, 2010.

Please be assured that we shall keep you posted on its rescheduled date. Again, in behalf of the Secretary, please accept our apologies.