HER pitch to use satellite data to monitor drought occurrences in agricultural areas made Dr. Gay Jane Perez the first Filipina scientist to win the Asean-US Science Prize for Women.
An associate professor of the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology at the University of the Philippines-Diliman Campus and a native of Naga City, Camarines Sur, Perez bested seven other equally interesting studies done by women scientists from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) region.
She took home a cash prize of US$20,000 in a pitch competition on Thursday during the Asean Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology in the Philippines held at the Shangri-La Mactan Cebu Resort and Spa.
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