Taking a break from his busy election-campaign itinerary, President Aquino on Monday tried out a locally developed monorail service now undergoing tests on the University of the Philippines campus in Quezon City, and found the ride bumpy.
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has started studying a renowned geologist’s initial findings which hint at the formation of a new fault line that cuts through Quezon City and intersects with the Marikina Valley Fault Line.
Saying it would help prevent a repeat of the destruction wrought by Typhoon “Pablo,” the Department of Science and Technology on Saturday unveiled plans to build a tunnel that would test the resiliency of structures to varying wind speeds.
The Department of Science and Technology is seeking a P10.09-billion budget for 2013, which is 8 percent higher than the P9.248 billion that the agency used this year, to increase government’s ability to reduce the risk of seasonal disasters.
Government workers who are supposedly in the forefront of research and innovation are turning to the lowly lugaw to dramatize the step backward they are being forced to take in terms of salaries and benefits.
Weather forecasting in the Philippines has finally entered the 21st century. Scientists at the University of the Philippines who were pooled together by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) set up in a span of a few months sophisticated weather monitoring systems not available to the country’s weather bureau during the catastrophe of Tropical Storm “Ondoy” in September 2009.
For many Filipinos, rain comes and goes in wildly unforeseeable ways, especially in these uncertain climes. But the people behind the government’s multibillion-peso weather forecasting and warning system, “Project Noah,” beg to differ.
This would be the best time to clean the house and do the laundry after almost two weeks of floods and monsoon rains as the long weekend promises “generally sunny, fair weather.”
Striking employees of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) will get next week the benefits that were withheld from them, Science Secretary Mario Montejo said.
THE Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Negros Oriental is now accepting applicants for this year’s junior level science scholarships.
President Benigno Aquino on Thursday said he wanted the weather bureau and disaster response agencies to use layman’s terms when giving periodic updates during inclement weather.
The Department of Science and Technology on Tuesday said that the weather bureau had duly observed the short-lived low pressure area (LPA) that struck Metro Manila and neighboring provinces on Sunday night and disseminated information about it.
The weather bureau is training 28 weather specialists 1 to fill vacancies created by the departure of forecasters for better paying jobs abroad. It is still short three trainees.
