E-MAIL: mplucas@hawaii.edu
EDUCATION:
- BS, Environmental Science, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, 2009
- MS, Natural Resource and Environmental Management, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2018
FIELDS OF INTEREST:
- Spatial climate product production
- Hawai‘i rainfall mapping
- Spatial ecological modeling
- Remote sensing
- Landscape ecology
- Climate change
- Fire
- Rainfall patterns
- Wind modeling
- Hawai‘i climate hazards
- GIS
- Spatial visualization of traditional knowledge
- Open source geospatial development
CURRENT RESEARCH:
- Hawai‘i Climate Data Portal (HCDP)
- Hawai‘i Fire Risk
- Hawai‘i Mesonet
- Nu‘uanu Rainfall Sensor Network
- Hawai‘i Flood Risk
- Hawai‘i EPSCoR Track-1 Change Hawai‘i: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Island Resilience