April Kam – UHM Water Resources Research Center

Discovering Terrestrial Biomes in Your Own BackyardOctober 2023

Guiding your students educational experience can sometimes be challenging, but Dr. Faith Inman, an instructor at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo campus, responded with a unique project in her 2023 Spring Ecology Class. She challenged her students to…

Congratulations Brian Allen! 2023 Lau ScholarOctober 2023

I am grateful to have been chosen to receive the 2023 L. Stephen Lau Scholarship. This is an honor and validates my research as a PhD student in Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering at UH Mānoa. A focus…

How Climate Change is Impacting Hawai‘iOctober 2023

In the aftermath of the devastating fires on Maui, Tom Giambelluca was asked how climate warming is creating a greater risk for wildfires in Hawai‘i, and how different land covers (both native and invasive) affect the hydrology of…

WRRC Leading Effort to Test Safety of Maui Drinking WaterSeptember 2023

Less than two weeks after the August 8th fire, WRRC launched the Maui Post-Fire Community Drinking-Water Information Hub. Chris Shuler, a hydrologist with WRRC; Andrew Whelton, a fire disaster specialist from Purdue University; and UH graduate students mobilized to…

New Publications by Xiaolong Geng: Studies on Oil Weathering Models and Impacts of Upweling in Shallow WetlandsAugust 2023

Congratulations to Dr. Xiaolong (Leo) Geng, WRRC hydrogeologist and faculty member with the Department of Earth Sciences, who recently published two papers. The recent publication for (1) “A generic approach to construct pseudo components for oil weathering models”…

New Publication: Environmental Change on Native and Invasive MacroalgaeJuly 2023

A new study predicting the environmental effects of climate change, urban development, and land cover was recently published in Water Resources Research. The authors—representing diverse research specialties, including members from WRRC—concluded that the effects will increase habitat suitability…

Awards and RecognitionsJuly 2023

Congratulations to WRRC Affiliate Faculty member Dr. Clifford Voss (USGS Emeritus Scientist) as the recipient of the 2023 Geological Society of America (GSA) Hydrogeology’s “George B. Maxey Distinguished Service Award.” First established in 1984, this prestigious annual award…