This is great news.
It was disheartening to know in January that Project NOAH(Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards)Â was closing due to “lack of funds.”
It should have been closed this February, but the University of the Philippines (UP) came to save the day. In a meeting held today, the UP Board of Regents approved the adoption of Project NOAH. UP will continue the project upon the termination of its administration by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on February 28.
According to UP’s website, UP President Danilo L. Concepcion said, “In a sense, Project NOAH is coming home.” He noted that the project was conceived by the DOST with the help of UP professors, led by its executive director Dr. Alfredo Mahar Lagmay from the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS), and that most of the project’s staff have come from UP.
Project NOAH started as a research program under the DOST in 2012 following the Typhoon Sendong tragedy in 2011. While it delivered its research results and got two extensions, the project was scheduled to be terminated when UP stepped in to continue it.
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