Press

• University of Vermont, College of Arts & Sciences, "Rising to the Challenge: UVM Prepares the Next Generation of Climate Leaders" - October 30, 2025

• Agence France-Presse (AFP), "US climate assessment in doubt as Trump dismisses authors" - April 29, 2025

• Pacific Daily News, "Weather Wednesday: Climate change, drought, and fire" - April 23, 2025

• Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center, "Pacific Islands brace for ‘Dry Season,’ sounding alarm on drought and wildfire" - March 24, 2025

• Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center, "PI-CASC research highlighted at Mariana Islands Conservation Conference" - March 24, 2025

• Honolulu Star Advertiser, "Wildfires are expected to worsen in the decades ahead in Hawaii due to climate change" - August 11, 2024

• AGU's Eos, "Finally, Hawaii Gets Its Own Climate Divisions" - June 6, 2024

• University of Hawaiʻi News, "Study reveals: Pacific Islanders used fire to shape landscapes" - March 27, 2024

• Bloomberg, "UN Drought Report Highlights ‘Silent’ Threat to Warming Planet" - December 1, 2023

• New York Times, “How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox”

• CNN, “These factors are making it hard to combat the deadly Maui wildfires”

• CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 (video), “Records show Hawaii underestimated the deadly threat of wildfires”

• CNN, “Hawaii underestimated the deadly threat of wildfire, records show”

• Washington Post, “Maui fires not just due to climate change but a 'compound disaster’”

• LA Times, “How a perfect storm of climate and weather led to catastrophic Maui fire”

• Grist, “Wildfires just destroyed a Maui town. Next year could be worse.”

• ClarkNOW, “‘There’s likely a climate change signal in everything we see’”

• Global News, Canada (video), “Maui wildfires: How Maui was caught off guard by catastrophic wildfires”

• Nature News, “Hawaii wildfires: did scientists expect Maui to burn?”

• NBC10 Boston News, “Maui wildfires: Mass. sending 2 emergency responders to help in Hawaii”

• BBC Radio 

• BBC World Service interview (audio)

• Outside, “The Maui Wildfires Can Be Traced to a Few Familiar Culprits” 

• Spectrum News 1 (San Fernando Valley) (video), Your Morning (Host Giselle Fernandez)

• Vox, Today Explained (podcast), “Why Maui burned” 

• The Guardian, “Non-native grass species blamed for ferocity of Hawaii wildfires”

• ABC News, “Why climate change can't be blamed entirely for the Maui wildfires”

• Sanlian Life Weekly, “Wildfires in Hawaii have killed 96 people: a combination of extreme events”

• CNN, “How a devastating combination of conditions triggered America’s deadliest wildfire in more than a century”

• Reuters, “Earth, wind and fire” 

• Le Devoir, "Partir en fumée: L'été 2023, le début du reste de nos vies"

Panel (video): The Future of the Clark Graduate School of Geography - 2023 Centennial Celebration, April 15, 2023

Climate Change Experts Are Taking Lessons From Indigenous Knowledge - Honolulu Civil Beat, November 30, 2022

Hawaii’s prolonged drought is pushing native species to the brink - Popular Science, September 12, 2022

Launch of Hawaiʻi climate portal provides powerful tools for local decision-making - Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, July 6, 2022

Professor Abby Frazier navigates time zones to study Pacific climate while teaching on campus - ClarkNow, March 16, 2022

Off the News: All about the climate with a click - Honolulu Star Advertiser, March 4, 2022

University of Hawaii unveils public portal for information on climate - Honolulu Star Advertiser, March 3, 2022

Revolutionary climate data portal critical to future planning - Hawaii Data Science News, March 3, 2022

UH Launches New Climate Data Portal - Big Island Now, March 3, 2022

Clark geographer to lead key chapter of national climate assessment - Clark News, November 3, 2021

UH Receives $1.3 Million Grant for Project Deploying 84 Climate Stations - Maui Now, October 11, 2021

$1.33M grant to better understand, forecast Hawaiʻi’s complex weather and climate - UH News, October 10, 2021

ASU receives $6.36M grant to launch Pacific Island research center - ASU News, September 30, 2021

$6.36M supports Pacific climate change resilience - UH News, September 30, 2021

Ka Pili Kai article: "Turning up the heat: The evolving threat of wildfire" - July 2021

Project Spotlight: Pacific Islands CASC Supports Drought Community of Practice in Hawai‘i - USGS, June 15, 2021

Molokai’s Fabled Axis Deer Are Starving To Death In Droves - Honolulu Civil Beat, January 25, 2021

Report: Climate change will disrupt Guamanians' lives - The Guam Daily Post, November 11, 2020

Guam faces host of issues due to climate change - USA Today, November 10, 2020

Cross-CASC Initiative Identifies Challenges of Modern Droughts - September 28, 2020

Hawai‘i Public Radio Interview: "Cost of Hawaii's Record-Breaking Drought Reaches Millions" - September 19, 2019

Ka Pili Kai article: "The Next Long Drought" - July 2019

New York Times: ‘Like a Terror Movie’: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters 

East-West Center: EWC Researchers Contribute to New Study that Reveals the Increasing Threat from Cumulative Climate Hazards 

ThePrint India: The many ways climate change will leave us high & dry, in one table

The Sydney Morning Herald: 'Mind-blowing': Hazards to multiply and accumulate with climate change 

Phys.org: Greenhouse gasses triggering more changes than we can handle 

Le Monde: Décès, famines, pénuries d’eau, migrations: tous les secteurs touchés par le changement climatique

UH Mānoa News: Greenhouse gas triggering more changes than we can handle

USA Today: Climate change to trigger widespread hazards to Earth and humanity – many at the same time 

Hawaii News Now: Expansive UH study: Threat to humanity from climate change ‘much larger’ than previous reports suggest 

Eureka Alert!: Greenhouse gasses triggering more changes than we can handle

Voice of the Sea episode - June 2018 (video)

"Climate from the Mountains to the Past"

Environment Hawai‘i Fundraiser - Speaker Announcement - Oct 2017

NCCWSC Ecological Drought Webinar - Sept 2017

Webinar Announcement - Hawaii Wildfire - Sept 2017

Big Island Field Day - Mar 2017

EcoDrought Workshop in Hawai‘i - Mar 2017

West Hawai‘i Today - Climate Change Forum - Nov 2016

Panelist - West Hawai‘i Forum - Nov 2016

Video footage (skip to 26:05 for my presentation)

New Post-Doc Announcement - Oct 2016

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  - USGS

  - PICSC

  - University of Hawai‘i

  - College of Social Sciences Newsletter 2017

Frazier Defense - PICSC - Jul 2016

EOS - Winners of the 2015 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awards announced - Feb 2016

UH News - Native silverswords threatened by shifting climate patterns - Feb 2016

PICSC Research Highlight - Feb 2016

Hawaii Business Magazine - Dec 2014

Think Tech Hawaii (video interview)

UH News - New websites provide data on Hawaii’s climate

UH Mānoa News - Geography Department launches websites providing data on Hawai'i's climate

UH Mānoa Research - Kaunānā - Evapotranspiration site maps key Hawaii climate factors

Honolulu Star Advertiser - UH websites offer help with solar decisions

New York Times: “By 2047, Coldest Years May Be Warmer Than Hottest in Past, Scientists Say”

LA Times: “Tropics will be the first region to be hit hard by global warming”

Living on Earth, Public Radio International (sound): “Climate Departure Date”

Global News, Canada (video): “Grim climate change report is not the end of the world, says co-author”

Nature News: “Climate change gets clocked”

New York Times Op-Ed: “Inconvenient Uncertainties" 

Sydney Morning Herald (video): "New climates for Melbourne, Sydney predicted"

The Australian

The Globe and Mail: “Science team identifies tipping point in climate change: 2047"

Interview with Ivan Semeniuk (video)

ABC Australian News (sound): "Researchers warn record temperatures could hit as early as 2020"

 Washington Post: “D.C. climate will shift in 2047, researchers say; tropics will feel unprecedented change first"

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Al Jazeera: “How climate change destroys human rights"

Scientific American: “Extreme Climate Will Hurt Tropics First, Not the Arctic"

Bloomberg: “New York Set to Reach Climate Point-of-No-Return in 2047"

Huffington Post Green: “Climate Change Will Bring Conditions Outside Historical Variability In Coming Decades"

Huffington Post UK: “Climate Change: Tropical Ecosystems And Economies Will Be Devastated 'Within Our Generation'"

PBS Newshour: “The new climate normal: coming soon to a city near you"

Hawaii News Now (video): “UH Study: Temperatures go off the charts around 2047"

KITV (video)

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Hawaii Public Radio (sound)

Wall Street Journal (video)

National Geographic News

Times of India: “Mumbai, Chennai may reach climate tipping point by 2034: Study"

Jakarta Globe: “Indonesia in 2028: Permanent and Irreversible Climate Change"

Christian Science Monitor: “Global warming: Record heat of today could be new norm in 2047, study says"

Pacific Standard: “The Game of Climate Whac-A-Mole Will Hit the Tropics First"

UH Mānoa: “Study in Nature reveals urgent new time frame for climate change"

California Academy of Sciences: “The When of Climate Change"

The Daily Climate: Opinion (by Jane Lubchenco & Thomas Lovejoy)

Recorded presentation, Department of Geography, 2013 (video): “The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability"