In this December 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Else Demeulenaere and Vince Fabian with the University of Guam’s Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant, will share their work to strengthen Island Resilience through invasive species removal in Guam’s Limestone Forests.
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In this November 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Curt Daehler (UH Mānoa) and Dr. Kelsey Brock (University of Wyoming) will share the results of modeling efforts to understand how invasive grasses may shift in a changing climate in Hawaiʻi.
The 2025 SURF program ended in August after a Final Symposium, wrapping up another successful summer of research, networking, and learning.
In this September 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Alan Mair will share results from a USGS study evaluating the effects of drought and cloud-water interception on freshwater availability and wildfire hazard in Hawaiʻi for recent and future climate conditions.
In this August 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Laura Brewington will share findings from a new RISCC publication on management priorities, barriers to effective work, and the power of regional collaboration and peer learning for climate-smart invasive species management.
Six students completed projects in climate adaptation science for the 2025 SURF program, investigating ways to protect at-risk corals, conducting case studies in air temperature changes and water resource management solutions, and using high tech tools to catalog ʻopihi and zooplankton under varying conditions.
In this July 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, meet the program support team of the Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Council (HISC), a state-level interdepartmental collaboration established in 2003 to coordinate planning, policy, and management of invasive species across Hawaiʻi. Join us to learn how collaborative decision-making among agencies, partners, and stakeholders drives HISC and its programs.
In this June 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Chanel Yee will present on her investigation of federal, state, county, and moku-level plans that relate to urban expansion and conservation and how they consider wildfire risk as well as any conflicts or synergies between strategies, actions, or goals in relation to wildfire risk mitigation.
In this May 2025 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Ann Marie Gawel presents on the results of her research into perceptions of environmental issues, especially invasive species, amongst residents of Guåhan (Guam). Although the most infamous invasive species from the island is the brown treesnake, residents are concerned with a variety of invasive species and environmental issues and are eager to engage in solutions to these problems.
In this talk, Dr. Michala Phillips (USGS) and Liat Portner (UH Mānoa) discuss how climate change is increasing the challenges for managers conducing restoration in Hawaiʻi, and the results of a climate-ready restoration workshop that was held at the 2024 Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference.