WELCOME TO THE
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
Congratulations to Nicolas Storie, 2022 Lau Scholar
Summer 2022 WRRC Faculty Tenure and Promotion
UH EPSCoR Awarded $20M for Climate Resilience
UHM Selected by NOAA for New $360M National Water Effort
Book Release by Dr. CLark C.K. Liu — Water Environment Modeling
2022 Lau Scholarship Competition
Congratulations Dr. Brytne Okuhata
WRRC Rings in the Lunar Year with a New Faculty Member
2022 New Publications: January to February
WRRC Receives Grants from NSF and NOAA
American Samoa 2020 Science Fair Students Base Their Projects on WRRC Research
Sayed Bateni Honored with the 2021 Faculty Research Award
WRRC Welcomes A New Faculty Member
2021 Graduate Students Selected for L.S. Lau Scholarship and Doak & Richard Cox Award
QF-NASA OASIS Mission: The Search for Water
The Future is Now: Protecting O‘ahu’s Aquifer
WRRC Geoscientist Dr. Lionel Benoit Accepts Position at INRAE, France
New Water Commissioner—Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani
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