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Introduction

MATTHEW LUCASSpatial Climate Analysis Specialist

Office: Saunders 418
E-mail: mplucas@hawaii.edu

MATTHEW LUCASSpatial Climate Analysis Specialist

 

Matthew Lucas Research Staff photo

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