The new season of our “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar series will be begin in September with a presentation by Dr. Shellie Habel from the Climate Resilience Cooperative, sharing their work on the influence of sea-level rise on Oʻahu’s groundwater and some adaptation applications of their results.
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In this talk, Leigh Greenwood and Dr. Laura Brewington will discuss a new white paper for the U.S. federal government that offers a blueprint for transforming how invasive species are considered within U.S. climate change planning and processes.
In this talk, Dr. Jeff Burgett will discuss a new decision support framework for conservation introductions, the process used to develop it, and how we can ensure decisions to move species are inclusive, transparent, and defensible.
In this talk, Dr. David Pompeani with UH Mānoa, NREM Department will share his recent research on a network of new sedimentary charcoal archives which records the last 2,000 years of fire history across the Hawaiian Islands.
Our May “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar will be presented by Emma Yuen and Ryan Okano from Hawaiʻi’s DLNR, discussing the climate science they have applied to resource management efforts on land and sea, and what new information is needed.
PI-CASC is pleased to be hosting the “2024 PI-CASC Graduate Scholars Symposium: Emerging scientists for climate adaptation” on March 28, as part of a broader Climate Week focused on climate assessments, resilience, and adaptation.
In this talk, Erica Gallerani and Dr. Lucas Fortini will talk about a new approach for assessing the potential for relocating populations of ʻākohekohe (Palmeria dolei) to higher elevations on the island of Hawaiʻi from the island of Maui because of the harmful impacts of climate-driven disease spread.
Our April “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar will be presented by Dr. Dean Gesch, USGS, providing a look at his efforts to build local technical capacity in the Republic of the Marshall Islands to conduct critical assessments of exposure to inundation and other coastal hazards.
In this talk, Dr. Alison Ainsworth will discuss the implications for conservation of Hawaiian high-elevation ecosystems in the face of both climate change and invasive species.
In this talk, Dr. Aaron Shiels will present the results of a study on the impacts of hurricanes on invasive rodents in the Caribbean Islands, and he will discuss invasive rodent impacts and control methods in both the Caribbean and Pacific Islands.