Manila Observatory

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The Manila Observatory is a non-profit research institute housed in the Ateneo de Manila University campus in Quezon City, the Philippines.[1]. Founded in 1865[2] by Jesuits, it has served many purposes over the years including weather forecasting and earthquake research. It is the so-called "Cradle of Philippine Geophysics" (Gochioco, 1998), and the "mother" institution of the present-day Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), PAG-ASA (Weather Bureau), and NAMRIA (Philippine mapping agency). The incumbent director is Fr. Daniel MacNamara, SJ, PhD, a Jesuit Astrogeophysicist.

Its current research activities include climate modeling and policy research, instrumentation, remote sensing and environmental research, geodynamics/seismology/crustal deformation, and ionosphere research.


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  1. ^ Manila Observatory.
  2. ^ NOAA/AOML Hurricane Timeline.
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