Post date: Aug 25, 2016 2:28:22 AM
Thomas Giambelluca and Abby Frazier will be presenting their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA December 12-16, 2016.
The West Hawai‘i Forum invited Abby Frazier to be a panelist for their public forum titled: "Hawai‘i's Climate Change Challenge" at the West Hawai‘i Civic Center in Kailua-Kona, HI on November 17, 2016.
Thomas Giambelluca & Yoshi Miyazawa successfully took down the eddy covariance tower located in the Cambodia Rubber Research Institute (CRRI) in October. This station has collected 7 years of water and carbon dioxide flux data in this rubber plantation.
Abby Frazier started a Post-Doctoral Research Geographer position with the USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry studying drought in the Hawaiian Islands, and she will be based in the Giambelluca Lab for the next two years. See Department of Interior News article here.
Aurora Kagawa passed her comprehensive exams in October, 2016.
Han Tseng & Micheal Nullet finished installation of all the sensors for the new field site at Nakula, Maui for the Cloud Water Interception project after a total of 3 field visits in April, July, and September 2016.
Han Tseng, John Delay & Aurora Kagawa retrieved all the throughfall and stemflow gauges from Makaha station 5 (after a total of 4 attempts including one failed to find the station and canceled due to weather) in September 2016.
Dr. Christina Karamperidou from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences presented some of her paleo-ENSO work to the lab in September, 2016.
Abby Frazier and Thomas Giambelluca published their paper entitled "Spatial trend analysis of Hawaiian rainfall from 1920 to 2012" in the International Journal of Climatology.