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Category: News and Events (page 8)
FOREST RESTORATION AND ECOHYDROLOGY RESEARCHER AURORA KAGAWA-VIVIANI JOINS WRRCFEBRUARY 2021
Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Vivani is leading the two-year project “Understanding Forest Restoration in Hawai‘i,” focused on gathering and synthesizing knowledge about forest restoration and ecohydrology in Hawai‘i. The aim of this important study is to provide resource managers and communities with the…
BOOK RELEASE BY DR. NIELS GROBBE — SEISMOELECTRIC EXPLORATION: THEORY, EXPERIMENTS, AND APPLICATIONSFEBRUARY 2021
WRRC’s affiliate researcher Dr. Niels Grobbe and co-authors André Revil, Zhenya Zhu, and Evert Slob have published a book entitled “Seismoelectric Exploration: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (Geophysical Monograph Series).” Why is seismoelectric exploration so significant? The seismoelectric method is the naturally occurring…
DR. ROGER BABCOCK JOINS HONOLULU MAYOR BLANGIARDI’S CABINETJANUARY 2021
The WRRC ohana is proud to announce Roger Babcock’s appointment as the Director and Chief Engineer of the Department of Facility Maintenance for the City and County of Honolulu. Dr. Babcock’s distinguished contributions at WRRC and in Civil and Environmental Engineering 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…
UH Team Developing Wildfire Risk ManagementSeptember 2020
The devastating West Coast wildfires highlight the importance of preparation and understanding the threat as it applies to Hawai‘i. To address this, a UH team—lead by Sayed Bateni (Principal Investigator, Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and WRRC), Clay Trauernicht (Co-Principal…
2020 WRRC Student Awards: Congratulations to Prakit Saingam and Ahmed Afifi
PRAKIT SAINGAM, RECIPIENT OF THE 2020 L. STEPHEN LAU SCHOLARSHIP I am very grateful to receive the 2020 L. Stephen Lau Water Research Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship will significantly help to support my PhD study at the Department of Civil and…