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Category: News and Events (page 6)
2022 Lau Scholarship Competition — Closed
The purpose of the scholarship is to further knowledge of Hawai‘i’s natural waters by providing financial assistance that may be used for anything related to costs of attendance or research. The scholarship will be awarded to either part- or…
Aloha Dr. Roger BabcockFebruary 2022
With best wishes from the WRRC ‘Ohana, Mahalo nui loa Roger! It’s with mixed emotions that we say aloha to WRRC faculty member Dr. Roger Babcock. After 25 years of research and instruction at the University of Hawai‘i WRRC and the…
WRRC Rings in the Lunar Year with a New Faculty MemberFebruary 2022
The WRRC ‘Ohana is happy to announce Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani’s joint appointment with WRRC and Dept. of Geography and Environment (GEO). Dr. Kagawa-Viviani brings knowledge of the ecosystems, climate, and peoples of Hawaiʻi derived from her upbringing in Honolulu and nearly 20 years…
Protecting Hawai‘i’s Groundwater Benefits Native Marine MacroalgaeJanuary 2022
As part of a WRRC project lead by Leah Bremer, a team of University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa researchers, including Henrietta Dulai and Celia Smith, compiled results of previous hydrological and algal studies to investigate the relationship between SGD and algal species in southeast…
Hydrogeology Journal: 2021 Editors’ Choice ArticleFebruary 2022
WRRC is proud to announce faculty member Dr. Leah Bremer’s collaborative article on the ‘Ike Wai work in Pu‘uloa was selected by the Hydrogeology Journal Editors as one of ten Editors’ Choice articles for the 2021 publication year. The selection of Effects of land-cover and…
New Publication by Michael Mezzacapo—Water Resources Extension: Empowering Action Through KnowledgeDecember 2021
Congratulations to Michael Mezzacapo (WRRC affiliate researcher) and colleagues who published “Water Resources Extension: Empowering Action Through Knowledge” in the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education (Issue 174: Water Resources Extension). Critical water issues such as access to safe drinking water, flooding, drought,…
WRRC RECEIVES GRANTS FROM NSF AND NOAA!OCTOBER 2021
$1.33M NSF GRANT AWARDED TO ESTABLISH CLIMATE STATIONS ACROSS HAWAII This is the first time the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a mesonet (mesoscale network) system under its competitive Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program. The NSF awarded the University…
NOAA AWARDS $6.36M TO SUPPORT PACIFIC CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCEOctober 2021
Global climate change is increasingly linked to extreme weather conditions such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires. To address this issue, the US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $6.36M over five-years to support research providing communities in the Pacific region with…
CONGRATULATIONS TO VICTOR CHEN, JADE COX, AND MAVIS LIANG!SEPTEMBER 2021
Among the finalists at the 2020 American Samoa Island Wide Science Fair were three students supported by the University of Hawai‘i WRRC in part or as needed through mentoring, funding, access to equipment, or data material. These three outstanding finalists focused their…