Speaker: Dr. Michael Cardiff Abstract: The deep subsurface is increasingly being called upon to meet humanity’s growing water, energy, and waste containment needs. This zone — which for fluid flow purposes may roughly be defined as between 100 m and…
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF FUTURE CLIMATE AND LAND-COVER CONDITIONS ON GROUNDWATER RESOURCES FOR THE ISLAND OF MAUI, HAWAI‘IDate: April 23, 2019
Speaker(s): Drs. Victoria Keener, Laura Brewington, and Alan Mair Part I. Participatory Scenario Planning for Climate Change Adaptation: Projected Future Climate and Stakeholder-Defined Land-Cover Scenarios for the Island of Maui, Hawai‘i —Victoria Keener and Laura Brewington (East-West Center & NOAA Pacific…
CHARACTERIZING THE STREAM AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH THE ECOSYSTEM IN HAWAI‘IDate: April 16, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Yin-Phan Tsang, Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, CTAHR Abstract: This presentation will consist of two parts, based on recent studies focusing on Hawaiian streams and ecosystems. Part I. Characterizing Natural Barriers to Non-native Stream Fauna in…
CHALLENGES IN EVALUATING MICROBIAL BEACH WATER QUALITY IN HAWAI‘IDate: April 2, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Marek Kirs, Microbiologist, WRRC Abstract: In an effort to improve current water quality monitoring programs, the Water Resources Research Center has been engaged in multiple research projects pertaining to microbial water quality indicators, specifically in a tropical environment.…
ESTIMATION OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY VIA VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF REMOTELY SENSED LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND LEAF AREA INDEXDate: January 22, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Sayed Bateni Abstract: To estimate evapotranspiration and gross primary productivity, land surface temperature (LST) and leaf area index (LAI) measurements were assimilated into a coupled surface energy balance-vegetation dynamic model (SEB-VDM) within a variational data assimilation (VDA) system.…
OTHER FALL 2019 WATER RELATED SEMINARS:SEPTEMBER HANAUMA BAY FRESHWATER SEMINAR SERIES
Throughout the month of September, the public will have the opportunity to talk story with the producer and host of Hawai‘i Sea Grant’s Voice of the Sea television series Kanesa Duncan Seraphin, and other experts featured in the series, at…
Cesspools: Hawai‘i’s Dirty Little SecretNovember 2020
Congratulations to Michael Mezzacapo (WRRC Outreach Specialist) and colleagues who recently published an article in the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education. Upgrading Hawai‘i’s antiquated cesspools is challenging and requires collaboration from many key sectors, including government, nonprofits, local businesses, and academia. This…
WRRC Welcomes Geoscientist Dr. Lionel Benoit
Please welcome geoscientist Dr. Lionel Benoit, an Early Postdoc Mobility research fellow from the Swiss National Science Foundation. At WRRC, his research will investigate how topography and atmospheric circulation interact to generate the steep gradients of precipitation observed in most tropical…
Document Preservation: The Environmental Center ProjectOcotber 2020
In 2018, the Environmental Center Project (ECP) was established to preserve the unique and crucial documents accumulated by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Environmental Center (EC) since its inception in 1970. Through hard work and a logistically challenging process,…
To Protect Nature’s Benefits, Focus on PeopleOctober 2020
Congratulations to Leah Bremer and colleagues who published “Increasing Decision Relevance of Ecosystem Service Science” in the journal Nature Sustainability. New research published in Nature Sustainability (link) demonstrates that sound environmental policy requires improved understanding of the diverse ways that people benefit from and relate…