PI: Daniele Spirandelli, Asst. Professor of Urban Design and Planning, UH Mānoa
Graduate Scholar: Alisha Summers, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UH Mānoa
Funded: FY2018
Adaptation and management
The Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative (PICCC), PI-CASC’s partner, released a film highlighting MCC supported collaborative restoration of loko iʻa (traditional Hawaiian fishponds) in Keaukaha developed through their Hawaiian Islands Terrestrial Adaptation Initiative (HITAI).
Check out the 15 minute presentation video on the MCC’s two year development process presented by Scott Laursen at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
PI: Philip Thompson, Assoc. Director of UH Sea Level center, UH Mānoa
Funded: FY2018
Rose Hart recently received an excellence award from the Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI) at Kyushu University, Japan, for her poster on determining shoreline change rates on Hawaiʻi Island at the 2017 Math for Industry Conference: Responding to the Challenges of Climate Change.
A Big Island Video News report on the Hawaiʻi County Council Environmental Management committee presentation with MCC researchers Louise Economy and Tracy Wiegner to learn more about Staphylococcus in Hilo Bay.
On July 19th, the MCC hosted an interactive forum at the 2017 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference. The session offered valuable presentations and small group discussions about collaborative knowledge coproduction. Check out the full forum report here.
Ryan McClymont (USGS Communications Specialist) and Jamie Kawai, documented the 2016 Climate Change Boot Camp and performed in-depth interviews with attendees and planners during the experience.
UH Hilo Stories, a publication of the UH Hilo Office of the Chancellor, highlighted PI-CASC projects in a five-part series on climate change research at UH Hilo.
On May 9-11, MCC presented at the 2017 Annual National Adaptation Forum within a climate adaptation education session.