PI: Curt Storlazzi, Research Geologist, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Co-I: Karen Thorne, Research Ecologist, USGS Western Ecological Research Center
Funded: FY2021
Adaptation and management
May 6, 2021 [Hawai‘i/US mainland] / May 7, 2021 [Guam]: Pacific RISCC Webinar: When Climate Change and Invasive Species Intersect: Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange
A new report explores the achievements of early PI-CASC partner, the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative (PICCC).
Several PI-CASC researchers with work revolving around water resources will participate in the upcoming International Tropical Island Water Conference.
September 1, 2020 [Hawai‘i/US mainland] / September 2, 2020 [Guam]: Forum: Invasive Species and Climate Change: Building a New Community of Practice
A recent publication details the methods used to develop and maintain a unique Marshallese agroforestry website created by PI-CASC researchers.
PI: Rosie Alegado, Associate Professor, Dept. of Oceanography, UH Mānoa
Co-PI: Becca Lensing, Dept. of Oceanography, UH Mānoa
Funded: FY2020
A fifteen minute podcast hosted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service highlighting MCC graduate student Lauren Kapono and her work monitoring ‘opihi (Cellana spp.) along the Kalaemanō shoreline of Hawaiʻi Island.
Hawaiʻi is home to a rich diversity of native plants, about 90 percent of which are found nowhere else in the world, but changing climate conditions may reduce the amount of suitable habitat for native plants and contribute to the spread of invasive plant species. Scientists focused on 10 important native and five important invasive plant species, using over 35 years of data from thousands of locations in Hawai‘i to assess the plants’ preferred climate conditions and model their likely best future habitat based on climate change projections. The resulting maps and findings provide an initial set of decision support tools to help resource managers identify key locations for conserving native plants (and the birds and insects that rely on them) and for anticipating and controlling the spread of invasive plant species.