Charina Lyn A. Repollo, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Deputy Director for Research

• February 2023 – February 2024: Congressional Research Fellow: House of Representative- Ateneo De Manila University (HRep-ADMU) Evidence- based Research Project. April 2022 – March 2025: Project Staff: Resource Inventory, Valuation and Policy in Ecosystem Services under Threat (RE-INVEST): The Case of the West Philippine Sea. November 2022 October 2025. Project Staff. Marine Heat Waves in the Western Pacific: Detection, Mechanisms, and Their Impacts on the Coral Reef Ecosystem.
• May 2021 – May 2030. Member: Healthy, Productive and Sustainable Asian Marginal Seas: Understanding changes in the marine environment in response to global climate change funded by Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC).
• November 2020-December 2023: Project Leader, Marine Heatwave and Its Impacts to Upwelling Regions Around the Philippines. Jan2021 – Dec2023: Study Leader: Upgrading Capacity, Infrastructure and Assets for MSRs in the Philippines (UPGRADE CIA)
• Sep2021-Sep2022: Senior Expert, Sea Level Rise Modelling. Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation, Inc.
• Sep2020-Dec2021: Project Staff. Kuroshio Current Observing System in the Philippines: Remote observations of the interactions of the Kuroshio with Internal Tides and Mesoscale Currents by High Frequency Doppler Radio Scatterometer (HFDRS) in the Philippines.
• May2021-Oct2021: Project Staff, A Framework for the Sustainable Development of Marine Mineral Resources in the Philippines funded by DOST-PCIEERD.5-month Partnership and Project Development Grant and the subsequent 36-month Strategic Large Grant.

Selected Publications:

• Cordero-Bailey, K., Amedo-Repollo, C.L., & David, L.T. (2024). Biological productivity. In Arceo, H.O., Velos, M.J.P., Nuñez, M.A.C., & Aliño, P.M. (eds.). The West Philippine Sea: State of the Coasts (pp. 35-39). University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
• Flores, P.C.M., Reyes, R.B., Amedo-Repollo, C.L., Siringan, F.P., Rediang, A., Pasaje, N.A., Alfante, R.M., Bauzon, M.D.A., Bringas, D., & Blanco, A. (30 June 2023). Influence of the El Niño southern oscillation to the interannual sea-level variability in the Philippine Sea. In Vignudelli, S., & Idris, N.H. (eds). Coastal Altimetry: Selected Case Studies from Asian Shelf Seas, (1st edition pp. 177-190). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91708-7.00003-1
• Reyes, R., Flores, P.C., Bauzon, A., Rediang, A., Alfante, R.M., Pasaje, N.A., Amedo-Repollo, C.L., Siringan, F.P., Blanco, A., Bringas, D., Ordillano, M., & De Lara, P.M.A. (03 March 2023). Rise or fall? How local factors influence coastal sea level in the Philippines. Philippine Engineering Journal, 44(1), 1-24. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pej/article/view/9137/8067
• Flores, P.C.M., Reyes, R.B., Amedo-Repollo, C.L., Rediang, A., Alfante, R.M., Bauzon, M.D.A., Pasaje, N., & Bringas, D. (December 2022). Local tide and geoid corrections significantly improve coastal retracked Jason Sea surface heights in the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 151(6B), 2471-2487. https://doi.org/10.56899/151.6B.12
• Amedo-Repollo, C.L., Flores-Vidal, X., Chavanne, C., Villanoy, C.L., & Flament, P. (January 2021). Barotropic and baroclinic tides in Panay Strait, Philippines. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 41, 101612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101612
• Amedo-Repollo, C.L., Flores-Vidal, X., Chavanne, C., Villanoy, C.L., & Flament, P. (March 2019). Low-frequency surface currents and generation of an island Lee Eddy in Panay Island, Philippines. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 49(3), 765-787. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-17-0191.1
• Reyes, R.B., Flores, P.C., Bauzon, A., Rediang, A., Alfante, R.M., Pasaje, N.A., Amedo-Repollo, C.L., Siringan, F., Blanco, A., Bringas, D. and Ordillano, M., 2023. Rise Or Fall? How Local Factors Influence Coastal Sea Level in The Philippines. PHILIPPINE ENGINEERING JOURNAL, 44(1), pp.1-24.
• Paul Caesar M. Flores, Rosalie Reves, Charina Lyn Amedo-Repollo, Fernando P. Siringan, Abegail Rediang, Nikki Alen Pasaje, Rey Mark Álfante, Ma. Divina Angela Bauzon, Dennis Bringas, and Ariel Blanco: Chapter 10. Influence of the El Nino Southern Oscillation to the interannual sea-level variability in the Philippine Sea, Coastal Altimetry: Selected Case Studies from Asian Shelf Seas. Elsevier. 2023 Jun 27.
• Flores, P. C. M., Reyes, R. B., Amedo-Repollo, C. L., Rediang, A., Alfante, R. M., Bauzon, M. D. A., … & Bringas, D. (2022). Local Tide and Geoid Corrections Significantly Improve Coastal Retracked Jason Sea Surface Heights in the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science, 151(6B), 2471-2487. Amedo-Repollo, C. L., Flores-Vidal, X., Chavanne, C., Villanoy, C. L., & Flament, P. (2021).
• Barotropic and baroclinic tides in Panay Strait, Philippines. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 101612. Amedo-Repollo, C. L., X. Flores-Vidal, C. Chavanne, C. Villanoy, and P. Flament, 2019: Low-frequency Surface Currents and Generation of Island Lee Eddy in Panay Island, Philippines. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 49. 765-787.
• Amedo, C.L.A. and C.L. Villanoy. Wind Stress Curl and Surface Circulation in the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea. (2003). Science Diliman, 15:32-40.
• Magno, M.M., C.L. Amedo, A.M. Altemerano, J.D.H. Palermo, and C.L. Villanoy. (2003) Interaction of the South China Sea and North Pacific Ocean in the Babuyan Channel, Batanes, UPV Journal of Natural Sciences, 8: 152-162.
• Amedo, C.L.A., C.L. Villanoy, and Maria Jayvee Udarbe-Walker. (2002) Indicators of Upwelling at the Northern Bicol Shelf. UPV Journal of Natural Sciences, 7 (1&2): 42-52.
• Amedo, C.L.A., C.L. Villanoy, and Maria Jayvee Udarbe-Walker. Composition and Transport of Pacific Water Masses along the Pacific Seaboard. (2002) UPV Journal of Natural Sciences, 7 (1&2): 90-102.

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