KERBY C. ALVAREZ is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests include Philippine environmental history, history of natural hazards and disasters in the Philippines, history of science (meteorology and seismology), and local history (history of Malabon). The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) awarded him the Young Historian’s Prize 2015.