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WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH CENTER
THE WRRC SERVES THE STATE OF HAWAII AS WELL AS OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDS AND ELSEWHERE BY RESEARCHING WATER-RELATED ISSUES DISTINCTIVE TO THESE AREAS. WE ARE HAWAII’S LINK IN A NETWORK REPRESENTED IN EVERY STATE AS WELL AS WASHINGTON, D.C. AND THREE U.S. TERRITORIES.
Developing, implementing and managing complex water quality projects for the public’s benefit.
Building capacity in the next generation of scientists, academics and policy makers.
Increasing public awareness about water quality issues and the importance of WRRCs research across the Pacific.
The Water Resources Research Center coordinates and conducts research to identify, characterize, and quantify water-related problems in the state of Hawaii. Click on any of the colored water droplets to view research related to that topic.
SCIENCES
Demonstration Study of High-Rate Flotation/Contactor Treatment of Raw Wastewater
Microbial Communities and Sources of Bacteria in Honolulu’s Water Supply
Wastewater Treatment for Point Source Processing and Reuse
Influence of Anthropogenic and Climatic Forcing on Water Quality Within a Tropical Coastal Ecosystem
Learn about upcoming WRRC Seminar Series
QF-NASA OASIS Mission: The Search for Water
The Future is Now: Protecting O‘ahu’s Aquifer
J. Uluwehi Hopking Awarded the 2021 L.S. Lau Scholarship
WRRC Geoscientist Dr. Lionel Benoit Accepts Position at INRAE, France
New Water Commissioner—Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani
2021 Lau Scholarship Competition
April 2021 International Tropical Water Islands Conference
Forest Restoration and Ecohydrology Researcher Aurora Kagawa-Viviani Joins WRRC
Book Release by Dr. Niels Grobbe — Seismoelectric Exploration: Theory, Experiments, and Applications
Dr. Roger Babcock Joins Honolulu Mayor Blangiardi’s Cabinet
Cesspools: Hawai‘i’s Dirty Little Secret
WRRC Welcomes Geoscientist Dr. Lionel Benoit
Document Preservation: The Environmental Center Project
To Protect Nature’s Benefits, Focus on People
UH Team Developing Wildfire Risk Management
2020 Graduate Students Selected for L.S. Lau Scholarship and Doak & Richard Cox Award
Jump Starting Hawai‘i’s Economy—One Cesspool at a Time
New Publication Fire and Rain: the Legacy of Hurricane Lane in Hawai‘i
Sayed Bateni Receives 2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Qatar
Roger Babcock 2020 Recipient of a UHM Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching
$900k Awarded to WRRC Researcher Sayed Bateni in December 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Niels Grobbe Winner of the Prestigious “Innovation Award” for Geophysics