In this second of two August Pacific RISCC Webinars, Assistant Professor Natalie Graham will discuss how environmental DNA and metabarcoding have transformed research on arthropod communities, and how this enables horizon scans of not-yet arrived species, models of where invaders could establish, how they spread among islands, and how communities and ecosystem may change as the climate shifts.
Native species
In this first of two August Pacific RISCC Webinars, Dr. Robert Fisher will review some of the various novel invasive species in the Pacific Region, their potential impacts, and some outcomes of his work on biosecurity within controlled settings as well as the risk of invasives, especially in regards to ecological emergencies when invasive spread risk could be greatest.
In this July 2026 Pacific RISCC webinar, Leigh Engel will discuss her research on how extreme events (temperature changes & flooding) may affect Hawaiʻi’s aquatic ecosystems through impacts to native and non-native fish.
In this June 2026 Pacific RISCC webinar, Dr. Trevor Jackson, Dr. Sulav Paudel, and Miguel Najera will share their research about the establishment of the invasive Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) in the Americas.
In this June 2026 Pacific RISCC webinar, Kapua Kawelo and Kaia Kong will share about the U.S. Army Garrison Hawaiʻi’s efforts to prevent, manage and control invasive species on Army lands.
In this May 2026 Pacific RISCC webinar, Jason Johnson and Dr. Kylle Roy will share their work to understand the impacts of an introduced forest pathogen, Ceratocystis manginecans, on the forests of Palau.
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.
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.