ecotoxicology

Description: Highlighting the potential of marine mammals to indicate ecosystem and human health risks, links between their levels of persistent pollutant contamination, particularly PCBs and their metabolites, and histopathologies are being elucidated. While the immediate concern is to gather chemico-toxic/histopathologic data of stranded marine mammals found in the Philippines, the ultimate objective is to point out on how anthropogenic activities are compromising the marine environment.

Past Research Project:

• Integrating ecotoxicological and hispathological information to understand the effects of PCBs including its metabolites in stranded and bycaught cetaceans found in the Philippine waters

Current Research Project: