FY15 – Page 2 – Pacific Island Climate Adaptation Science Center

By Rachel Lentz Project

Projecting the frequency and impact of future coastal fooding and inundation events in the Pacific Islands

PI: Philip Thompson, Assoc. Director of UH Sea Level center, UH Mānoa
Co-Is: Matthew J. Widlansky, International Pacific Research Center, UH Mānoa; Janet M. Becker, Professor of Geology, UH Mānoa; Mark A. Merrifield, Professor of Oceanography, UH Mānoa; John J. Marra, Regional Climate Services Director, NOAA
Funded: FY2015

Waves splash against a railed cement wall that bears a "Caution: Sidewalk closed" sign.

By Rachel Lentz Project

Multi-year sea level predictions for the Pacific Ocean

PI: Axel Timmermann, International Pacific Research Center, UH Mānoa
Co-PI: Matthew Widlansky, International Pacific Research Center, UH Mānoa
Funded: FY2015

Underwater view of spreading and branching corals

By Rachel Lentz Project

Coral adaptation and acclimatization to global change

PI: Robert Toonen, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, UH Mānoa
Co-PI: Chris Jury, Department of Oceanography & HIMB, UH Mānoa
Funded: FY2015

View across high-elevation slopes with clouds intruding between foreground bushes and background volcanic crests.

By Rachel Lentz Project

Cloud water interception in Hawai‘i – Part 2: Mapping exchange of water between clouds and vegetation

PI: Yuqing Wang, Professor of Meteorology/IPRC, UH Mānoa
Funded: FY2015

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