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.
Forest management
Slice of PI-CASC continues in April with a presentation from faculty across the University of Hawaiʻi looking at how UH scientists are playing a vital role in addressing wildfire challenges in Hawaiʻi.
Slice of PI-CASC continues in January with a presentation by Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani explores the uncertainty of islands’ future water with the combined challenges of climate change and urbanization.
Slice of PI-CASC continues in December with a presentation by Dr. Melissa Price sharing details of her management study to identify the most cost-effective and efficient strategies for protecting endangered species on Maui Nui.
PI: Leah Bremer, Associate Specialist and Conservation Scientist, UH Mānoa
Graduate Scholar: Sebastian Church, NREM, UH Mānoa
Co-Is: Tamara Ticktin, Professor of Botany, UH Mānoa; Kiana Frank, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, UH Mānoa; Zoe Hastings Silao, Postdoctoral Researcher, Water Resources Research Center
Funded: FY2024
PI: Susan Cordell, Research Ecologist, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USFS
Co-Is: Amanda Uowolo, U.S. Forest Service; Rebecca Ostertag, UH Hilo; Ruddy Estoy, Guam Dept. of Agriculture; Christine Fejeran, Guam Dept. of Agriculture; Romina King, Guam PI-CASC
Funded: FY2024
Four students completed projects in climate adaptation science for the 2024 SURF program, investigating the effects of ocean warming on cleaner wrasse behavior, finding the best soil amendments for encouraging native Hawaiian plant regeneration, modeling the optimal pathway for using the RAD framework on Hawaiʻi biomes, and using non-intrusive methods to investigate climate effects of coral growth rates.
PI: Noa Lincoln, Associate Professor of Tropical Agriculture, UH Mānoa
Graduate Scholar: Ryland Lubin, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, UH Mānoa
Funded: FY2024
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: Sheldon Plentovich, Coastal Program Coordinator, USFWS, Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Service Office
Funded: FY2024