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The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) was recognized under the Water Resources category in the 2025 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. Considered one of the most comprehensive and objective assessments of university performance by discipline,…

Addressing the critical environmental and public health impact of outdated wastewater infrastructure on island communities is the aim of a University of South Florida project, in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, that was awarded a three-year, $5…

  WRRC faculty member Dr. Christopher Shuler and researchers Aimee Schriber and Robert Litt, alongside engineers from Carollo Engineering, briefed lawmakers in the House Majority Caucus at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol as part of a “Lawmakers Learn” series, delivering an…

                        Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani of WRRC   Principal investigator and UH Mānoa College of Engineering Associate Professor Tyler Ray, co-principal investigator and Water Resources Research Center Assistant Professor Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, and Associate Professor at…

Read the story on UH News                                   The fully installed Lahaina SAGE Node, co-located with the Hawai‘i Mesonet weather station, integrates advanced sensing and…

Congratulations to Dr. Xiaolong “Leo” Geng for leading and winning a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Standard Grant award for his proposal, “Hydrogeologic Controls on the Accumulation, Transport, and Discharge of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Coastal Beaches.” The project presents…

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) program recently announced that the Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) for the Fiscal Year 2025 104g national competitive grants have been approved. They will be posted to grants.gov, with deadlines…

A new review paper on nutrient recovery from waste was recently published by Dr. Zhiyue Wang, an assistant professor in the Water Resources Research Center and the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering. The review explores the potential of…

In the beginning of August, researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) and the East-West Center traveled to Pago Pago, Tutuila, for a research engagement workshop co-organized by WRRC and the American Samoa Community College (ASCC).…

We are pleased to announce Dr. Tao Yan as the new Director of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), effective August 1, 2024. Dr. Yan joined WRRC in 2021 and was appointed Associate Director in…