The University of Hawai’i Water Resources Research Center and the Hawai’i EPSCoR in collaboration with the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific in Guam, the Virgin Islands Water Resources Research Institute, and the U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Research Act Program are pleased to announce the International Tropical Islands Water Conference. Join us for this virtual event to learn and discuss the importance of managing and understanding our water resources across a broad range of tropical island settings!
Category: Conferences Archives
The Second Conference on Water Resource Sustainability Issues on Tropical IslandsDecember 1-3, 2015
The 2015 conference was built on discussions and interactions from a previous conference hosted by the four Island Institutes (WRRC, WERI, PRWRERI, and VI-WRRI) in Honolulu, Hawaii from November 14–16, 2011. The intention of these discussions was to strengthen the…
HYDRUS MODELING WORKSHOPAPRIL 8-10, 2013
As a service to the community of individuals concerned with water and solute flow in Hawaii, the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Hawaii offered a workshop on advanced modeling of water flow and contaminant transport in porous…
U.S. Recreational Water Quality Criteria: A Vision for the FutureMarch 11-13, 2012
U.S. recreational water quality criteria (RWQC) are needed to protect the public health of people who swim and bathe in designated beaches. However, advances in microbiology, environmental science and engineering, and epidemiology, as well as progress in monitoring programs in…
Water Resource Sustainability Issues on Tropical IslandsNovember 14-16, 2011
The Water Resources Research Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in cooperation with the Virgin Islands Water Resources Research Institute, the Puerto Rico Water Resources and Environmental Research Institute, and the Water and Environmental Research Institute of the…
How Clean or Polluted are Hawaii’s Drinking and Recreational Waters?October 30 -31, 2008
WRRC organized a two-day conference at the Pagoda Hotel, Honolulu on October 30 -31, 2008. Approximately 120 people registered to attend. The title of the conference was “How Clean or Polluted are Hawaii’s Drinking and Recreational Waters?”. The goal was…
HYDRUS WorkshopNovember 12- 13, 2007
The University of Hawaii-Manoa Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department and the Water Resources Research Center organized a HYDRUS shortcourse during November 12- 13 2007 in Honolulu. Training was in the Agriculture Science Building room #215 at the University of…
Total Maximum Daily Load (TDML) WorkshopOctober 23-25, 2007
The Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) co-sponsored a workshop on Total Maximum Daily Load (TDML) at the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu on October 23-25, 2007. Total Maximum Daily Load refers to the total quantity (or load) of a pollutant that…
Symposium on the October 30, 2004 Manoa Campus FloodFebruary 28, 2005
The UH Manoa community examined the causes and effects of the disastrous flood that swept through the campus on October 30, 2004, at a symposium held on February 28. The symposium included presentations and discussions with representatives of the National…
Modeling of Water Flow and Solute Transport in the Vadose ZoneDecember 15-16, 2003
Numerical modeling is an increasingly important tool for analyzing complex problems of water flow and contaminant transport in the unsaturated zone. This workshop was designed to familiarize participants with the principles and numerical analysis of variably-saturated flow and transport, and…