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By David Matthew C. Gopilan, DOST-STII, S&T Media Service

Screenshot of homepage of Philippine Groundwater Outlook (PhiGO) website.

The quality of surface water in rivers, lakes, and oceans may be easy to see. But for the waters that are way deep in the ground under our feet, not very much.

To monitor the dynamics of groundwater in Pampanga and Iloilo City, a website called Philippine Groundwater Outlook (PhiGO) was developed and launched by researchers from the Ateneo de Manila University and the British Geographical Survey (BGS).

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By David Matthew C. Gopilan, DOST-STII, DOST Media Service

Safe and healthy food is a basic human need and right. It is needed to sustain overall health and economic development in light of the recent pandemic.

With this, a research program called FRESH FARMS or Food Risk and Safety Analysis in Agricultural Farms towards Improvement of Control Strategies for Food Safety is currently implemented to ensure that the food from farms is free from any contaminations.

This is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through the Saganang Pagkain Para sa Lahat or SAPAT Program of the DOST-National Research Council of the Philippines’ National Integrated Basic Research Agenda.

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by Allyster A. Endozo, DOST-STII, photos from the STAMINA4Space program team

Space science, technology, and innovation in the Philippines are off to a milestone year with the launch of the Maya-2 cube satellite (CubeSat) in February and the Maya-3 and Maya-4 in August—almost three years after Diwata-2 in October 2018.

These historic feats were made possible by the STAMINA4Space research and development (R&D) program through the STeP-UP project, thus building upon the gains of the PHL-Microsat program that developed the Diwata-1 launched in March 2016.

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The Information and Communications Technology - Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (ICT-DRRM) Section of the Department of Science and Technology Region XI (DOST-XI) successfully completed the three-day virtual Flood Mapping Training Series on 12-14 October 2021.

DOST-XI’s ICT-DRRM Section, composed of ICT practitioners, Jonathan Victolero, John Paolo Boniel, Ephraim Franco, Rey Suarez, and Sukarno Sukarno, was the first DOST Regional Office to be trained on the use of the flood mapping methodology developed by the DOST-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI).