Guest Speaker: Jeffrey Perez, M.Eng.

This episode highlights the research of Mr. Perez on the prehistoric earthquakes from the Surigao segment of the Philippine Fault.

Mr. Jeffrey S. Perez is a licensed geologist and a Supervising Science Research Specialist at PHIVOLCS. He is a graduate of BS Geology from the UP Diliman and gained a Master of Engineering Major in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Saitama University, Japan. He has also taken graduate school units at Kyoto University, Japan. He was a recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Scientists Award by the National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST, Ph) and the DOST International Publication Award (2015, 2018, 2021 and 2023). In 2018, he was one of the eight (8) Filipinos who were part of the Asian Scientist 100 list. Currently, he supervises the Disaster Risk Reduction Research and Development Section of PHIVOLCS.

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Research spotlight:

Perez JS, Tsutsumi H. 2017. Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Surigao segment of the Philippine fault in northeastern Mindanao Island, Philippines. Tectonophysics. 699:244–257.

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👤Guest Speaker: Raquel Felix, PhD

This episode highlights the work of Dr. Raquel Felix on modelling the tsunami scenarios in Lombok and Bali, Indonesia.

Dr. Felix is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Coastal Lab at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She completed her PhD in 2023 at NTU, within the Asian School of the Environment (ASE). Her research focuses on tsunami hazard assessment through modeling and the development of user-friendly applications for tsunami modeling. Raquel holds a BSc and MSc in Geology from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. During her Master's studies, she worked as a Science Research Specialist in the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards Project (Project NOAH) at UP.

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Felix, R. P., Hubbard, J. A., Bradley, K. E., Lythgoe, K. H., Li, L., and Switzer, A. D., 2022: Tsunami hazard in Lombok and Bali, Indonesia, due to the Flores back-arc thrust, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1665–1682.

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Guest Speaker:

Iris Mabanta

MS Marine Science Student

UP Marine Science Institute

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