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UP MSI’s Bolinao Marine Laboratory initiatives and staff honored at the 2026 Gawad Pangulo Awards
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — The UP Marine Science Institute was recognized at the 2026 Gawad Pangulo Awards.
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UP MSI and Partners Launch Kalalawdan Fellowship Program Batch 2 to Strengthen Science-Based Maritime Governance in the Philippines
QUEZON CITY, Philippines – A new cohort of researchers, government professionals, and local policymakers from across the Philippines will soon convene under the Kalalawdan Fellowship Program as Project NEXUS 2.0 expands efforts to strengthen the connection between marine science and policymaking in the country.
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UP MSI awarded 2026 Gawad Tsanselor for Plastics Research Capacity Building Initiatives
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — The UP Marine Science was honored with the 2026 Gawad Tsanselor para sa Natatanging Programang Pang-ekstensiyon for the Plastics Research Capacity Building Initiatives of the Microbial Oceanography Laboratory (MOLab).
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Life and science on Pag-asa Island: UP MSI launches webpage on WPS biodiversity
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — What is it like to conduct science in the country’s westernmost inhabited island? This International Day of Biological Diversity and as the Philippines celebrates Month of the Ocean, the UP Marine Science Institute is launching a new webpage featuring the marine life and research done in the Kalayaan Island Group over the years.
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PH’s first metallomics research facility opens in UP Marine Science Institute
The UP Marine Science Institute opened the first metallomics facility in the Philippines last Wednesday, October 22, 2025. Led by Balik Scientist Dr. Irene B. Rodriguez, the establishment of the metallomics facility will help advance research on trace metals, macronutrients, and their interactive effects on marine biogeochemical cycles.
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PH’s best-managed MPAs recognized in Para El MAR 2025
ILOILO CITY, PHILIPPINES— “Let Para el MAR be a space for collaboration, learning, and renewed hope.” These were the words of Ms. Edwina Garchitorena, Country Director of the Zoological Society of London-Philippines to officially open the 2025 Para el MAR celebration themed, Bantay Karagatan, Bantay Kinabukasan: Local Action for Biodiversity and the Future. The 10th Para el MAR (MPA Awards & Recognition), organized by the Marine Protected Area Support Network (MSN) and coinciding with the network’s 20th anniversary, was held on September 17–18, 2025, at the Zuri Hotel in Iloilo City, drawing over 200 participants.
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UP MSI, UPLB-INREM, and UP IMLOS advance natural capital accounting efforts through the RE-INVEST WPS Program Workshop
Featured photo: Attendees of the “Laying the Foundation for Natural Capital Accounting for the West Philippine Sea” workshop. “We measure what matters so that we can defend what lasts.” – Senior Associate…
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UP MSI to establish PH’s first coral cryobank facility for coral restoration
Featured photo: FOR CORAL RESTORATION. Pocillopora is one of the Pocilloporid corals that is targeted for larvae cryopreservation. As coral reefs face increasing threats from climate change and human activity, UP Marine…
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Bienson Ceasar De Vera Narvarte, PhD, Named Most Outstanding PhD Graduate and Dr. Edgardo D. Gomez Awardee
Featured photo: Ben on the Rise. Bienson Ceasar De Vera Narvarte addressing his fellow graduates in his speech at the College of Science Recognition Rites. Bienson Ceasar De Vera Narvarte, PhD, received…
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UP MSI participates in M/V DA-BFAR Demersal Stock Assessment and Oceanographic Survey in Visayan and Samar Sea
Researchers from the UP Marine Science Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) research vessel, M/V DA-BFAR, participated in the recently concluded Visayan and Samar Sea Demersal Stock Assessment and Oceanographic Survey on board M/V DA-BFAR from May 2 to 12, 2025.
