Dr. Eslava is a geologist, a Professor, and a University Scientist at the University of the Philippines Los Banos - School of Environmental Science and Management (UPLB-SESAM). She obtained her BS and MS Geology degrees from UP Diliman, her MS in Earth Systems from Kumamoto University, Japan, and her PhD in Geology from The University of Hong Kong.

She served as UPLB's School of Environmental Science and Management Dean for two consecutive terms, from 2015 to 2021. She also served for two consecutive terms as president of the Geological Society of the Philippines, and is also the current president of the Philippine Environmental Science Association, Inc. She was the Division Chair for Earth and Space Sciences of the National Research Council of the Philippines for two terms  from 2013-2017 and led the work on the formulation of the National Basic Research Agenda for the Environmental Sciences.

She was conferred by the NRCP the Achievement Award for Earth and Space Sciences in 2019, and by the Philippine Federation of Professional Associations – Council for the Built and Natural Environments the Distinction Award for the Geologist Profession in 2020. She is a Curator for the Special Collections for Geology of the Museum of Natural History at UPLB.With her work on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Dr. Eslava was recently recognized as one of six finalists, out of 425 nominations, for the 2023 Women's International Network for DRRM (WIN DRRM) Excellence Award. The WIN DRRM is the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction's flagship women's leadership initiative.

Email: [email protected]

BSc in Geology, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1997
MSc in Geology, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2000
MSc in Earth Systems, Kumamoto University, Japan, 2003
PhD in Geology, The University of Hong Kong, 2009

• environmental impact assessment
• climate change impacts, adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management,
• bio-geology, environmental geology, geologic hazards, geochemistry, paleomagnetism, and tectonics.

Salapare, R.C., Dimalanta, C.B., Ramos, N.T., Manalo, P.C., FAUSTINO-ESLAVA, D.V., Queaño, K.L. and Yumul, G.P.Jr., 2015. Upper crustal structure beneath the Zambales Ophiolite Complex, Luzon, Philippines inferred from integrated gravity, magnetic and geologic data. Manuscript accepted for publication in the Geophysical Journal International 201 (3), 1522-1533. DOI:10.1093/gji/ggv094.

Manalo, P.C., Dimalanta, C.B., FAUSTINO-ESLAVA, D.V., Ramos, N.T., Queaño, K.L. and Yumul, G.P.Jr., 2014. Crustal thickness variation from a continental to an island arc terrane: Clues from the gravity signatures of the Central Philippines. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.08.031 (Available online 04 September 2014).

FAUSTINO-ESLAVA, D.V., Dimalanta, C.B., Yumul, G.P.Jr., Servando, N.T. and Cruz, N.A. 2013. Geohazards, tropical cyclones and disaster risk management in the Philippines: Adaptation in a changing climate regime.  Journal of Environmental Science and Management 16, 84-97.

Perez, A.d.C., FAUSTINO-ESLAVA, D.V., Yumul, G.P.Jr., Dimalanta, C.B., Tamayo, R.A.Jr., Yang, T.F. and Zhou, M.F. 2013.  Enriched and depleted character of the Amnay Ophiolite upper crustal section and the regionally heterogeneous nature of the South China Sea mantle.  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 65, 107-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.09.023.

FAUSTINO-ESLAVA, D.V., Yumul, G.P.Jr., Servando, N.T. and Dimalanta, C.B., 2011. The January 2009 anomalous precipitation associated with the "Tail-end of the Cold Front" weather system in Northern Mindanao (Philippines): Natural hazards, impacts and risk reductions. Global and Planetary Change 76, 85-94. doi:10.1016/j.glopacha/2010.12.009.

Boongaling, CGK, FAUSTINO-ESLAVA, D.V., and Lansigan, FP. 2017. Modeling land use change impacts on hydrology and the use of landscape metrics as tools for watershed management: The case of an ungauged catchment in the Philippines. Land Use Policy Volume 72, 116-128