In this November 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Curt Daehler and Dr. Kelsey Brock will share the results of modeling efforts to understand how invasive plants may shift in a changing climate.
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In this September 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Alan Mair will share results from a USGS study evaluating the effects of drought and cloud-water interception on freshwater availability and wildfire hazard in Hawaiʻi for recent and future climate conditions.
The Slice of PI-CASC season kicks off with a seminar by Dr. Elliott Parsons, highlighting key accomplishments, projects outcomes, and the critical role that boundary-spanning organizations like Pacific RISCC play in building resilience across the Pacific Islands.
In this August 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Laura Brewington will share findings from a new RISCC publication on management priorities, barriers to effective work, and the power of regional collaboration and peer learning for climate-smart invasive species management.
In this July 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, meet the program support team of the Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Council (HISC), a state-level interdepartmental collaboration established in 2003 to coordinate planning, policy, and management of invasive species across Hawaiʻi. Join us to learn how collaborative decision-making among agencies, partners, and stakeholders drives HISC and its programs.
Join a special forum at the Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference to learn about wao and land-use planning.
In this June 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Chanel Yee will present on her investigation of federal, state, county, and moku-level plans that relate to urban expansion and conservation and how they consider wildfire risk as well as any conflicts or synergies between strategies, actions, or goals in relation to wildfire risk mitigation.
In this May 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Ann Marie Gawel presents on the results of her research into perceptions of environmental issues, especially invasive species, amongst residents of Guåhan (Guam). Although the most infamous invasive species from the island is the brown treesnake, residents are concerned with a variety of invasive species and environmental issues and are eager to engage in solutions to these problems.
In this talk, Dr. Michala Phillips (USGS) and Liat Portner (UH Mānoa) discuss how climate change is increasing the challenges for managers conducing restoration in Hawaiʻi, and the results of a climate-ready restoration workshop that was held at the 2024 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference.
The Slice of PI-CASC season ends with a May seminar by Dr. Ashley McGuigan, sharing her agroforestry work on the connections between plant traits and nutrients in food production, to inform land management decision making.