Predicting the resilience of coral reefs to increased sea surface temperature, as an outcome of global climate change, is an important focus of coral reef research and conservation. Our understanding of the adaptive capacity of corals with respect to environmental change is poor and as a result,...
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We describe efforts to develop regional units for the major Hawaiian Islands in order to study secular changes in the Hawaii?s climate in the instrumental record. Our approach to regionalization is to consider the amplitude and phase of the annual cycle of monthly mean rainfall in the Islands usi...
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The Aholehole Project conducts teacher training for 5th and 6th grade teachers to lead their students in building underwater robots as a platform conducting experiments. So far 500 Windward elementary students have shared the excitement of building the small Sea Perch robots, originally designed...
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Climate change represents an unprecedented crisis threatening the native biota of Hawaii. Changes in climatic variables such as temperature, rainfall patterns, drought, and sea level rise will create unknown threshold and nonlinear responses of ecosystems and the species that compose them. Clima...
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Recognizing that an educated community is key to understanding and sustaining the nation’s ocean and coastal environments, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Services Center (PSC) supports an environmental literacy initiative called NOAA Honua (NOAA's World) for t...
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Over the past five years, we have been working to survey population genetic structure of a broad range of fish and invertebrate species to understand connectivity patterns throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago. By overlaying the shared genetic breaks in many species, we have determined four primar...
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We have observed an increase in the area of the least productive waters in the central North Pacific, those defined as not exceeding 0.07 mg?m3, from 1998 to 2006, of about 2 percent per year coherent with increases in sea surface temperature. There has been an eastward expansion of the area of ...
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Chipper Wichman presenting. As large-scale ecological restoration initiatives in Hawaii gain momentum, protecting botanical biodiversity must be aggressively undertaken. With 274 plant species currently listed as endangered, Hawaii has the most endangered flora in the US and time is running out....
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There are a growing number of successful projects and programs in Hawai’i integrating traditional Hawaiian knowledge and culture with conservation. This panel will share with conference members their knowledge and experiences in integrating traditional cultural practices, traditional land and na...
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Christian Giardina presenting. Native ecosystems and the Hawaiian culture they sustain face a stark future. While many landscapes, riparian areas and coastlines across Hawai’i have conservation status, and? restoration and conservation activities by diverse entities proceed on numerous fronts, t...
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Ramsay Taum is the Director of External Relations and Community Partnerships and Special Assistant to the Dean on Host Culture at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa’s School of Travel Industry Management (TIM) where he lectures on host cultural values in the work place. Taum is also founder, CEO...
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Native biodiversity found on coastal lands in Hawai’i are threatened by rising sea levels due to climate change, as well as other critical threats. In 2008, The Nature Conservancy completed a statewide assessment identifying conservation targets that represent coastal biodiversity, and mapping t...
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