Andres Tungpalan - Researcher Profile


Department

College of Aquatic Sciences & Applied Technology

Associate Professor V

Contact

Email Address: aytungpalan3256@yahoo.com


Biography

Prof. Andres Y. Tungpalan has been in the academe since 1982.  He started in the government service as a Senior Science Research Specialist.  As an educator, he has handled courses such as Advanced Phycology, Advanced Systematics, Advanced Ecology, Developmental Biology in both graduate and undergraduate levels in the Mariano Marcos State University, University of Sto. Tomas and De La Salle University in Manila.  His research interests include ethnobotany of marine flora as well as marine resource diversity and ecological assessment.  He has served as consultant in various research projects and grants such as the Integrated Agro-Fishery Productions sponsored by the Save the Children Federation, USA; as Team Leader for the Agro-Fishery component of the research “Strengthening Applied Research and Training for the Dryland Agriculture” sponsored by the UNDP/FAO; the Inventory/Assessment and Processing of Agarophytes in Ilocos Norte sponsored by PCAMRRD and the World Bank.  He has undergone trainings in aquaculture production program including marine finfish hatchery operation in Auburn University, Alabama; in marine fishery production in the University of Washington, Seattle and brackishwater aquaculture program in the University of California, Davis all in the United States of America.  He also went for a training in freshwater aquaculture program in the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand, Seaweeds Hatchery Production at Kyoto University. 

In 2010, he was involved as consultant in the Integrated Coastal Management Program (ICMP) for Candon, Ilocos Sur and Burgos, Ilocos Norte and was also the Project Leader in the Sustainable Coral Reefs Ecosystems Management Program (SCREMP) in Agoo-Damortis Protected Landscape and Seascape (ADPLS) under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in 2014. He became recipient of the project Establishment of Marine Protected Area Networking in Lingayen Gulf Marine Key Biodiversity Areas under the USAID-ECOFISH and Project Leader of Research Assessment, Biological Evaluation and Phytochemical Screening of Economically Important Seaweeds in Ilocos Region under the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR).   He also serves as the Program Leader for the extension project Aqua-based Food Products Development for Livelihood and Resource Sustainability in Ilocos under the CHED-NAFES. His expertise includes corals and invertebrates ecophysiology and he has conducted various researches on seaweeds, seagrasses, mangroves regarding assessment, density and diversity distribution, growth and survival, recruitment pattern and regeneration capacity, to name a few.

Because of his involvement in research, he was awarded as Best Research Specialist of MMSU in 1987.    He also served as MMSU Faculty Regent from 2001-2009, National President of the Philippine Confederation of Faculty Regents of State Universities and Colleges from 2005-2006 and Director for Administrative Services in MMSU from 2009-2013. Currently, he is an Associate Professor V at the Mariano Marcos State University and is the Dean of the College of Aquatic Sciences and Applied Technology.

Prof. Tungpalan is a licensed Open Water and Advanced SCUBA Diver by ADSI and CMAS.  Last November 16, 2015, he obtained his 1 STAR Scientific SCUBA Diving Course Specializing in Coral Transplantation Technology under Philippine Association of Underwater Activities (PAUA).     

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