AWARDS / PROMOTIONS / TRIBUTES
Dr. Jun Battad promoted as Senior Manager at Forestry SA
Brod Dionisio “Jun” Battad was promoted
to Senior Manager last Dec. (and started last Feb.21) at Forestry South
Australia, a South Australian government corporation based in Mt. Gambier,
a beautiful rural city located at the base of extinct volcanos, especially
the Blue Lake, which changes color and becomes dark blue in summer -
http://www.mountgambiertourism.com.au.
Click picture to open Forestry SA website
About Brod Jun: Brod Dionisio “Jun” Battad, UPLB 74d (The Lone Ranger Batch), has 20 years of experience in the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in natural resources management. Jun has a BS and MS in Forestry from UPLB, both under a Bureau of Forest Development Scholarship grant. He completed his Ph.D. in watershed management and GIS from Texas A&M University. After completing his studies, he worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He taught GIS, remote sensing, ecology and environmental science. In 1999, he was recruited and sponsored by DSE to work and migrate with his family to Australia.
He is happily married to a UPLB Sigma Betan, Yeyet Moral. They have 2 grown-up children. Their son (in 2008) was completing his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Monash University, Melbourne while their daughter is an IT Analyst with the federal government in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. He is a GI (Genuine Ilocano) from Magsingal, Ilocos Sur and is the youngest brother of Brod Vicente ‘Vic” Battad, UPLB 68a.
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