Regular Faculty


DOMINIQUE SASHA AMORSOLO, Assistant Professor

Specialization: Physical geography, environmental studies
Research Interests: Physical geography, human adaptations to fluvial (river) geomorphologies, geospatial techniques, countermapping, geonarratives, creative methods in geography
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Room 416

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VANESSA JOY ANACTA, PhD, Assistant Professor

Specialization: Cognitive and Behavioral Geography, Geospatial Technologies, Hazards and Vulnerability Research, GIScience
Research Interests: Wayfinding, Spatial Cognition (of Disasters), Participatory GIS
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222

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JAKE ROM D. CADAG, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Specialization: Disasters, Climate Change, Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment, Participatory Methods, Heograpiyang Pilipino, Development
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: PAV 2232

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MYLENE T. DE GUZMAN, Assistant Professor

Specialization: Cultural Geography
Research Interests: Geonarratives, Media geographies, Fandom, Geographies of cyberspace/Digital geographies
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Room 404

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EMMANUEL B. GARCIA, EnP, Assistant Professor

Specialization: Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Land Use Planning
Research Interests: Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Heritage Mapping, Transport and Development
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Room 412

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DARLENE J. OCCEÑA-GUTIERREZ, PhD, Professor

Specialization: Physical Geography, Climatology, Southeast Asia, Field Methods
Research Interests: Climate-related disasters; hazard perception; tropical cyclones; spatial vulnerability
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: PAV 2236

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MARIA CELESTE H. HERMIDA, Assistant Professor
Specialization: Population Geography, Quantitative Geography
Research Interests: Living alone, loneliness and aloneness; geographies of development and well-being; cluster analysis; social network and belongingness; geographies of everyday life; geographies of health and healthcare utilization
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Room 418
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FERNAND FRANCIS M. HERMOSO, Assistant Professor
Specialization: Sustainability, CSR, ESG Reporting, Spectral Geographies, Physical Geography, Augmented Reality, Ludic Geographies
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: PAV 2224
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YANY P. LOPEZ, PhD Associate Professor

Specializations: Children’s geographies; child participation; geographic education; environmental education; disaster education; DRR; countermapping; geonarratives
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: PAV 2234

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DANIEL L. MABAZZA, D.Eng Professor
Specializations: Transportation Geography, Urban and Regional Planning
Research Interests: Quantitative Methods
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: PAV 2230
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MA. SIMEONA M. MARTINEZ, Assistant Professor

Specializations: Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems; Participatory Methods for Community-based Project Planning
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Room 408

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LOU ANGELI OCAMPO, PhD Assistant Professor

Specializations: Political Ecology, Rural Geographies; Disaster Risk Perception; Geografiyang Pilipino
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: PAV 2238

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JOSEPH PALIS, PhD Professor

Specializations: Cultural geography, media geographies, geohumanities, countercartographies, island and archipelagic geographies, film and music geographies
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Room 410

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KRISTIAN KARLO C. SAGUIN, PhD Associate Professor, Department Chairperson
Specializations: Political ecology, urban political ecology, urban studies, resource geographies, fisheries and aquaculture
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222
Room Number: Bulwagang Silangang Palma, Room 415
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