The Center is a non-profit research, resource management, and educational unit of Silliman University established under an endowment grant of the Angelo King Foundation to the Silliman University Foundation, Inc. It is a response to the urgency of research, conservation, and protective management of marine and terrestrial environments in the country. The Center’s program is directed to-wards application of research findings to problems of conservation and manage-ment and to increased sustainable production in marine and terrestrial environments.
Research is conducted in both terrestrial and marine environments. For the terrestrial, it is focused on biodiversity. For the marine, the major thrust is on protected areas and reserves.
The Center: (1) promotes environment-friendly technologies to increase fishery production of coastal areas; (2) renders services to teachers and graduate students through lectures, workshops, short term training, and thesis advising; and (3) conducts consultancy services on environmental project evaluation and environmental impact assessment.
1. Research on Marine Reserves on Small Islands of the Mindanao Sea.
2. Coastal Resource Management of Dapitan City.
3. Amphibian and Reptile Biodiversity in Philippine Rain Forests.
4. Monitoring of Baylimango, Marine Reserve Dapitan.
5. Coastal Resource Management of Siyt Bay, Siaton, Negros Oriental.
6. Patterns of water circulation in the Bohol Sea and; how these patterns affect the distribution of fisheries, such as the anchovy fisheries in southern Bohol and along the northern coast of Mindanao, the small pelagics in Dapitan Bay and other bays, the sardine fishery in eastern Sulu Sea and Bohol Sea.
7. Comparison of fishes in coral reef marine reserves throughout the length of the Bohol Sea, from Aliguay Island to Dinagat Island and if possible also Siargao Island.
8. Establishment of marine reserves on Dinagat Island, Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte, Agusan del Norte, southern tip of Negros Island.
9. Establishment of new marine reserves and strengthening of those established earlier at Siquijor Island.
10. Studies on distributions of organisms such as sea snakes, corals etc. as possible indicators of reef health.
11. Studies on economic valuations of coral reefs in the Bohol Sea.
12. Studies on the ecology of economically important coral reef fishes.
13. Studies on the herpeto-fauna of Dinagat and Siargao Islands.
14. Studies on and conservation of submerged coral reefs in the eastern Sulu and Bohol Sea.
15. Integration of family planning in community development.
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Research papers and monographs written by the Center’s researchers will be published in either international journals or proceedings of the Center. A newsletter is published periodically. The Center will also assist in the publication of books on subjects related to environmental research and management.
Scientists working on subjects related to those of the Center are welcome to work at the Center. It is assumed that they have their own sources of financial support. The Center will provide certain facilities and help arrange for logistic support.
The Center will collaborate with inter-national research centers. Among them are:
James Cook University
Department of Marine Science, Australia
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco
Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Field
Museum of Natural History
Chicago
Marine Science Institute
University of the Philippines, Dilliman, Quezon City.
It has also establish working relationships with the marine programs of Mindanao Polytechnic State College, Cagayan de Oro City and other educational institutions in Mindanao, the Visayas, and Luzon.
