EVENTS

Webinar Details:

Title:

Using a Place-Based Approach to Structure Conversations Around Climate-Ready Restoration

Webinar Description:

Climate change presents growing challenges for land managers and restoration practitioners, yet many struggle to integrate climate considerations into their work. In Hawaiʻi, expanding invasive species, intensifying drought, and increasing fire risk heighten the need for disturbance-resilient restoration strategies. To address these issues, we convened a workshop at the 2024 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference, bringing together practitioners, land managers, and researchers to co-develop climate-ready restoration approaches. This webinar will share insights from the workshop, highlighting key strategies and lessons learned to support more resilient restoration efforts across Hawaiʻi’s terrestrial ecosystems.

Speaker details:

Dr. Michala Phillips is a Research Ecologist with the USGS Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center. She studies how biotic interactions, disturbance and global change mediate community assembly of plants and soil microbes to affect emergent ecosystem functions.

Liat Portner is the Project Specialist for the Ecosystems Extension Program within the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at UH Mānoa. She works with “ecosystem workers” across the state to facilitate knowledge exchanges on the topics that fall within the categories of invasive species and restoration.