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!