Ecological & socio-cultural response to transplanting corals to enhance reef resilience
with Dr. Crawford Drury, Assistant Researcher, HIMB, UH Mānoa
Kira Hughes, Managing Director, Coral Resilience Lab, HIMB, UH Mānoa
Jasmine Chang, Coral Resilience Lab, HIMB, UH Mānoa
and Kinohi Fukumitsu, Ke Kula Nui o Waimānalo
Join us in person
on November 12, 2024, 12:00 pm
at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics (HIG) building, room 210, on the UH Mānoa campus.
A free lunch will be available for the first 25 participants
This project aims to characterize how coral thermal tolerance is conserved across space and time using a fully-crossed reciprocal transplant. This includes 1) exploring the utility of translocation as a tool to enhance reef resilience and adaptive coastal protection under climate change and 2) determining the sociocultural perspectives to potential human intervention strategies in coral restoration. Dr. Crawford Drury and Kira Hughes will share preliminary results from an ongoing coral transplant between bays and highlight the activities that have strengthened pilina (relationships) with community members.
Join us for this next seminar of the “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar series hosted by the Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center! The series is designed for a wide audience to learn about climate adaptation research and science-to-management applications for Hawaiʻi, the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands, and beyond.