“Slice of PI-CASC”
Seminar Series
Climate Adaptation
Challenges and Solutions
First Tuesday of the month, September to May
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. For more details, visit the Event page for each seminar, linked in the table below and made live the month before the presentation.
2024-2025 Season
| Sept 3 | The influence of sea-level rise on coastal groundwater and resulting impacts on municipal infrastructure | Dr. Shellie Habel, Climate Resilience Collabortive, UH Mānoa | details |
| Oct 1 | Challenges in conserving at-risk Acropora corals in a changing climate | Dr. Laurie Raymundo, Marine Laboratory, University of Guam | details and recording |
| Nov 12 | Ecological & socio-cultural response to transplanting corals to enhance reef resilience | Dr. Crawford Drury, HIMB, UH Mānoa Kira Hughes, Coral Resilience Lab, HIMB,UH Mānoa |
details and recording |
| Dec 10 | A comparison of the cost and effectiveness of conservation actions to address threats to 372 endangered species on the islands of Maui Nui | Dr. Melissa Price, Dept of NREM, UH Mānoa | details and recording |
| Jan 14 | Community ecology to community hydrology: Island ecohydrology from forest to city | Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, WRRC, Dept of Geography, UH Mānoa | details and recording |
| Apr 1 | Beyond the Red Flag: enhancing Hawaiʻi’s wildfire risk with statewide ignition maps | Dr. Sayed Bateni, College of Engineering Dr. Keri Kodama, Sea Grant College Program Matthew Lucas, Water Resources Research Center Thi Kieu Trang Tran, College of Engineering Dr. Thomas Giambelluca, Water Resources Research Center |
details and recording |
| May 6 | Ecological traits predict nutritional traits in complex agroforestry systems | Dr. Ashley McGuigan, USDA Southwest Climate Hub; NREM, UH Mānoa | details and recording |
Viewing details
Seminars will be presented in a hybrid format, both online and in-person at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics (HIG) building, Room 210 (map). Lunch (and pie!) will be provided for the first ~25 participants who come in person. For zoom connection information to join online, please follow the unique link to register for each weekly seminar.
Recordings
Presentation recordings for the current season will be made available on each seminar’s Event page (see table above) a few days after the seminar. For recordings of seminars from the last three seasons, please visit the Slice of PI-CASC playlist at our PI-CASC Youtube Channel.