Our February “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar will be presented by Dr. Rebecca Ostertag, who will share her group’s work with designing climate resilient ecosystems as part of their forest restoration efforts on Hawaiʻi Island and applications to similar locations across the Pacific.
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Our January “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar–on the second Tuesday of the month–will be presented by Dr. Ryan Longman, who will share his work with many partners in creating the Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal and its impressive capabilities, as well as future possibilities.
In this webinar, Dr. Jonathan Price from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo will discuss how modeling vegetation communities in Hawaiʻi can be used to inform restoration, invasive species management, and climate change.
Our December “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar will be presented by Dr. Joseph Genz and his PI-CASC Graduate Scholars Shania Tamagyongfal and Jerolynn Myazoe, who will share their work on exploring traditional voyaging practices as methods for modern sustainable sea transport.
Pacific RISCC October Webinar – Seedlings: A Window into Climate Change Impacts on Plant Populations
In this webinar, Dr. Kasey Barton, from the University of Hawaiʻi School of Life Sciences, will discuss seedling drought and salinity tolerance across a diverse range of native and invasive Hawaiian plants and climate change implications.
Our November “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar will be presented by Dr. Rosie Alegado who will share her experience on the importance of approaching resilience through Indigenous values.
Our October “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar will be presented by PI-CASC Graduate Scholar Paolo Marra-Biggs and his advisor, Dr. Rob Toonen, who will discuss their efforts to help protect giant clams in the waters of American Samoa by characterizing their populations using genetic analyses.
The September 2023 Pacific RISCC webinar featured a presentation on the changes in vegetation observed in Hawaiʻi from 2010-2019 by the USFS Forest Inventory & Analysis Program.
Our September “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar will be presented by Dr. Judith Drexler and Helen Raine who will discuss the protocol they developed to prioritize coastal wetlands sites on Molokaʻi for restoration.
The July 2023 Pacific RISCC webinar will feature a presentation on the critical connection between groundwater dependent ecosystems of macroalgae in Kona, Hawaiʻi, and the effects of climate change on those systems.