Speaker: Dr. Abby Frazier Abstract: Land managers are facing co-occurring threats to their landscapes such as climate change, invasive species, wildfire, and drought. As novel ecosystems and climates emerge—particularly hotter and drier climates—it is critical that scientists produce locally relevant,…
Speaker: Dr. Larry Barber Abstract: Sustainability of freshwater resources on island ecosystems relies on a detailed understanding of the sources and loading of contaminants and their impact on water quality. Considerable attention has been given to constituents such as nutrients…
Location: POST 723, UH Manoa Campus Speaker: Dr. Aly I. El-Kadi (Dept. of Earth Sciences & Water Resources Research Center) Abstract: Hydrological modeling in Hawaii and similar areas is challenging due to complicated hydrogeological features, steep topography, and variable climate…
Speaker: Dr. Grégoire Mariéthoz Abstract: Many hydrological processes taking place at the Earth’s surface are directly observable, either through in-situ measurements or by using remote sensing techniques. In contrast, understanding properties of the subsurface poses formidable observational challenges. Firstly, measurements…
Speaker: Dr. Michael Cardiff Abstract: The deep subsurface is increasingly being called upon to meet humanity’s growing water, energy, and waste containment needs. This zone — which for fluid flow purposes may roughly be defined as between 100 m and…
Speaker(s): Drs. Victoria Keener, Laura Brewington, and Alan Mair Part I. Participatory Scenario Planning for Climate Change Adaptation: Projected Future Climate and Stakeholder-Defined Land-Cover Scenarios for the Island of Maui, Hawai‘i —Victoria Keener and Laura Brewington (East-West Center & NOAA Pacific…
Speaker: Dr. Yin-Phan Tsang, Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, CTAHR Abstract: This presentation will consist of two parts, based on recent studies focusing on Hawaiian streams and ecosystems. Part I. Characterizing Natural Barriers to Non-native Stream Fauna in…
Speaker: Dr. Marek Kirs, Microbiologist, WRRC Abstract: In an effort to improve current water quality monitoring programs, the Water Resources Research Center has been engaged in multiple research projects pertaining to microbial water quality indicators, specifically in a tropical environment.…
Speaker: Dr. Sayed Bateni Abstract: To estimate evapotranspiration and gross primary productivity, land surface temperature (LST) and leaf area index (LAI) measurements were assimilated into a coupled surface energy balance-vegetation dynamic model (SEB-VDM) within a variational data assimilation (VDA) system.…
Throughout the month of September, the public will have the opportunity to talk story with the producer and host of Hawai‘i Sea Grant’s Voice of the Sea television series Kanesa Duncan Seraphin, and other experts featured in the series, at…