Summer 2018

Post date: Jun 19, 2018 1:27:54 AM

  • Congratulations to Abby Frazier on her new position as a Fellow with the East-West Center in their Early Career Scholars Program! You can now find her in Burns Hall at UH Mānoa.

  • Congratulations to Ryan Mudd, Matthew Lucas, and Abby Frazier for their successful presentations at the Hawaii Ecosystems Meeting June 25-26 in Hilo, HI, and to Abby Frazier for her presentation and Drought Symposium at the Hawaii Conservation Conference July 24-26 in Honolulu, HI.

  • Caly goes live! Caly is one of the last remaining individuals of a Hawaiian plant (Cyanea calycina) that occurs nowhere else in the world. Ryan Mudd has been working with collaborators from USGS, Hawaii DLNR, US FWS and others to launch a "Plant Cam" to monitor this endangered plant. Check out the website here: https://www.plantcam.live for live updates including real-time footage, weather conditions, and blog.

  • Welcome to our two summer interns: Angelica Melone is a PIPES intern working with Aurora Kagawa-Viviani doing soil experiments in the field, and Aly Char working with Abby Frazier on analyzing drought and climate gridded datasets. Good luck with your projects!

  • Check out the latest Voice of the Sea episode featuring Tom Giambelluca and Abby Frazier discussing their Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center (PI-CASC)-funded research on Haleakalā, Maui (June 2018).

  • Abby Frazier and Shelley Crausbay attended the Caribbean Drought Workshop in San Juan, Puerto Rico May 30-31, hosted by the National Climate Adaptation Science Center. The field tour included El Yunque National Forest and the Luquillo LTER site.

  • Congratulations to Tom Giambelluca for publishing his latest paper in the Journal of Biogeography titled: "Will climate change shift the lower ecotone of tropical montane cloud forests upwards on islands?" (May 2018)

  • An official welcome to Matthew Lucas who joins the lab as a Climate Data Analyst on the ‘Ike Wai Project!