The Emerging Interdisciplinary Research (EIDR) Program conducted a Focus Group Discussion on Assessing Socio-Ecological Systems (SES): Visioning Sustainable Futures of Laguna de Bay, last October 21, 2016 at SESAM Lecture Hall, UPLB. The FGD was attended by local government officials of Laguna, national agency officers, Bantay-Lawa officials and representatives from the academe. The EIDR Program Cycle 6 is implementing the project “Ten Years After the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment of Laguna de Bay: towards a Sustainable Future”.  It aims to study geophysical hazards in the area and understand their potential impacts to communities for their consideration in their development plans; pollution, which characterize the lake in terms of pollution levels through the analyses of water and sediment samples and develop pollution monitoring proxies using environmental magnetism; socio-eco millennium ecosystem assessment, which aims to produce a synthesis of state-of-the-art information on Laguna de Bay and generate new baselines and provide indicators on how the targets recommended after the MA have been met or missed; and watershed, which aims to characterize the biophysical aspects of the watersheds and evaluate land use changes and identify critical areas through watershed vulnerability assessment. EIDR is a collaboration of the School of Environmental Science and Management, College of Forestry and Natural Resources-UPLB, Rushurgent Working Group, National Institute of Geological Sciences-UP Diliman, Institute of Chemistry, Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics-UP Manila and School of Civil, Environmental and Geologic Engineering, Mapua Institute of Technology.