“Slice of PI-CASC”
Seminar Series
Climate Adaptation
Challenges and Solutions
First Tuesday of the month, October 2021 to May 2022
12:00 – 1:00 pm Hawaiʻi time
The “Slice of PI-CASC” seminar series seeks to provide a platform for sharing ongoing and state-of-the-art climate adaptation science for a wide audience, including scientists and natural and cultural resource managers, to learn about climate adaptation research and science-to-management applications in Hawaiʻi, the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands, and beyond.
Speakers
The series will feature a variety of speakers including: university and federal researchers funded by PI-CASC and our partners; leading climate scientists and experts from the Pacific Region and elsewhere; and resource managers and practitioners at the cutting edge of applying science and traditional ecological knowledge in tackling climate adaptation and sustainability challenges for ecosystems and communities. More details will be added for subsequent months.
| Oct 5 | An Introduction to PI-CASC | Dr. Mari-Vaughn Johnson; PI-CASC Federal Director | details and recording |
| Nov 2 | Using fire and landscape ecology to understand social-ecological resilience on Pacific Islands | Dr. Clay Trauernicht; NREM, UH Mānoa, and Pacific Fire Exchange Lead | details |
| Dec 7 space | From the moon’s ‘wobble’ to augmented reality: Understanding and communicating the impacts of sea-level rise in Hawaiʻi | Dr. Phil Thompson; Dept. of Oceanography, UH Mānoa, and UH Sea Level Center Director | details and recording |
| Jan 11 | CARM and Go: Bridging the gaps between natural resource management and higher learning on Guam | Dr. Romina King; Dept. of Geography, University of Guam; PI-CASC Lead UOG | details and recording |
| Feb 1 | Big Island, big coastline: Generating a shoreline inventory for Hawai‘i Island to increase resilience in the face of rising sea levels | Dr. Ryan Perroy; Dept. of Geography and Environmental Science, UH Hilo | details and recording |
| Mar 1 | Life on the edge: Coastal plant resilience under sea-level rise in Hawaiʻi | Dr. Kasey Barton; College of Life Sciences, UH Mānoa | details and recording |
| Apr 5 | The Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange: A co-production approach to deliver climate resources to user groups | Dr. Abby Frazier; Graduate School of Geography, Clark University | details and recording |
| May 3 | Using a novel spatial prioritization technique to support climate-resilient conservation planning for rare species in Maui Nui | Dr. Lucas Fortini, PIERC, USGS; and Dr. Scott Fretz, Div. of Forestry & Wildlife, Hawaiʻi DLNR | details and recording |
Viewing details
Current conditions: Seminars will be presented in a hybrid format, online as well as for limited numbers in person (≤15; masked and vaccinated) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics (HIG) building, Room 210 (map). Register here for the zoom information, or email rlentz at hawaii.edu to attend in person.
Recordings
Presentation recordings will be made available on each seminar event page (see table above) and on our PI-CASC Youtube Channel.