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Four WRRC students took top spots in two student poster contests at this year’s Pacific Water Conference (PWC) in Waikiki. It was a WRRC clean sweep in the Hawaii Water Environment Association (HWEA) student poster contest, with Brian Allen placing…

After eight years in the making, the Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal (HCDP) and Hawaiʻi Mesonet teams are excited to finally share the Inaugural Hawaiʻi Annual Climate Report. This report summarizes rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions across the state over the…

Dr. Christopher Shuler and Aimee Schriber at UH Mānoa Research Day 2026   Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) faculty member Dr. Christopher Shuler and researchers Aimee Schriber and Autumn McCarter represented WRRC at the fourth annual University of Hawaiʻi at…

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Addressing the critical environmental and public health impact of outdated wastewater infrastructure on island communities is the aim of a University of South Florida project, in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa,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…