PI-CASC EVENTS
Pacific RISCC August 2026 Webinar – Molecular Approaches to Invasion Risk and Ecosystem Health Across Indo-Pacific Islands
In this second of two August Pacific RISCC Webinars, Assistant Professor Natalie Graham will discuss how environmental DNA and metabarcoding have transformed research on arthropod communities, and how this enables horizon scans of not-yet arrived species, models of where invaders could establish, how they spread among islands, and how communities and ecosystem may change as the climate shifts.
Pacific RISCC August 2026 Webinar – Invasive Species & Ecological Emergencies in the Pacific
In this first of two August Pacific RISCC Webinars, Dr. Robert Fisher will review some of the various novel invasive species in the Pacific Region, their potential impacts, and some outcomes of his work on biosecurity within controlled settings as well as the risk of invasives, especially in regards to ecological emergencies when invasive spread risk could be greatest.
Pacific RISCC July 2026 Webinar – Impact of Extreme Events on Native and Non-Native Freshwater Fishes in Hawai‘i
In this July 2026 Pacific RISCC webinar, Leigh Engel will discuss her research on how extreme events (temperature changes & flooding) may affect Hawaiʻi's aquatic ecosystems through impacts to native and non-native fish.
Pacific RISCC June 2026 Webinar – Coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB, Oryctes rhinoceros) has established a foothold in the Americas
In this June 2026 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Trevor Jackson, Dr. Sulav Paudel, and Miguel Najera will share their research about the establishment of the invasive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) in the Americas.
