Spring 2016

Post date: Jan 14, 2016 10:54:35 PM

• Abby Frazier, Marie McKenzie, Tom Giambelluca and John DeLay at the spring commencement ceremony - congratulations!!

• Congratulations to Marie McKenzie for completing her MA degree in May, 2016!!

• Lab members Abby Frazier, Marie McKenzie, and Heidi Needham presented talks and Aurora Kagawa and Han Tseng presented posters at the 2016 UH Manoa Geography Department Symposium. Congratulations to everyone for successful presentations, and to Abby Frazier for being awarded Best Presentation!

• Dr. Kasey Barton from the Botany Department presented her field and greenhouse work to the lab in April, 2016.

• The Pacific Islands Climate Science Center (PICSC) has highlighted research by Abby Frazier about her work at the forest line on Haleakalā, and Ryan Longman's work monitoring climate change on Haleakalā, Maui.

• Thomas Giambelluca, Ryan Mudd, Alan Ziegler, ,and Yoshi Miyazawa's paper entitled "Evapotranspiration of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivated at two sites in southeast Asia" was accepted for publication in Water Resources Research

• Ryan Longman, Abby Frazier and Thomas Giambelluca published their paper entitled "Change in trade wind inversion frequency implicated in the decline of an alpine plant" in the journal Climate Change Responses

• Check out the new blog post by Lauren Kaiser about downscaling in Hawai‘i.

• A Data link has been added to our website to access the input data associated with our publications.

• Yoshi Miyazawa is teaching Ecophysiology Methods this semester (GEOG 468) with 8 students enrolled.

• Congratulations to Abby Frazier for advancing to PhD Candidacy!

• Tom Giambelluca, Mike Nullet, Marie McKenzie and Ryan Longman complete a successful trip to the forest line in Haleakalā National Park, Maui and the Hanawi Natural Area Reserve (NAR) to perform maintenance on the HaleNet & Little HaleNet climate stations, as well as the sap flow sensors installed in the field.