Category: News and Events (page 7)

A joint appointee of WRRC and CEE, Dr. Sayed Bateni was honored by the University of Hawaii College of Engineering with their 2021 Faculty Research Award for his outstanding research accomplishments and contributions. The College of Engineering annually recognizes its faculty, staff,…

WRRC is happy to announce that Professor Tao Yan has joined the Center’s ‘Ohana. Concurrently, he will be holding a joint position with the UH Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is widely recognized for his research in coastal water quality…

During his sabbatical on a Fulbright Scholarship in Qatar, Professor Sayed Bateni collaborated with Dr. Essam Heggy and others on the joint Qatar Foundation (QF) and NASA OASIS (Orbiting Arid Subsurfaces and Ice Sheet Sounder) mission. Their objective is to design a satellite mission…

O‘ahu’s primary source of water, the Puʻuloa or Pearl Harbor aquifer may need further protection to ensure long-term sustainability. In the context of climate change, withdrawing water from the aquifers at the current sustainable yield limit could potentially render this…

J. ULUWEHI HOPKINS, RECIPIENT OF THE 2021 L. STEPHEN LAU SCHOLARSHIP The most recent recipient of the L. Stephen Lau Water Research Endowed Scholarship is J. Uluwehi Hopkins. Her winning research proposal focused on the community aspects of water rights and management by…

A postdoctoral scholar at WRRC, Lionel Benoit has accepted a position as a research scientist in his native France, at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE). INRAE was formed on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the National…

WRRC is proud to announce faculty member Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani’s appointment as a Water Commissioner with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Commission on Water Resource Management. For the duration of her term (July 2021 to June 2025), Aurora and the…

Congratulations to Dr. Leah Bremer, promotion to Associate Specialist of Environmental Management – WRRC and The Economics Research Organization of the University of Hawai‘i

Transformational Research Experiences for Early Undergraduates (TReX) is an introductory course that provides discovery-based investigation and hands-on experiences in a wide range of science fields. The course is divided into 4-week learning modules that will be taught by researchers at four UH Mānoa research facilities on and…