Less than two weeks after the August 8th fire, WRRC launched the Maui Post-Fire Community Drinking-Water Information Hub. Chris Shuler, a hydrologist with WRRC; Andrew Whelton, a fire disaster specialist from Purdue University; and UH graduate students mobilized to…
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Preserving the Water We HaveJune 2023
To become better stewards of Hawai‘i’s natural resources, we need to understand the challenges facing the state, especially to protect and manage our water. In a recent interview with Hawaii Now, Dr. Victoria Keener and Dr. Tom Giambelluca spoke…
Agroforestry Restoration at Pu‘ulaniMarch 2023
In 2018, the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) and Kāko‘o ‘Ōiwi, a community-based organization, have worked together to transition a primarily non-native forest to a culturally and ecologically valuable agroforest at Pu‘ulani (heavenly ridge) in Heʻeia, O‘ahu. The…
Managing Cesspools in Hawai‘i: A New Comprehensive ToolMarch 2023
“It’s good to be able to contribute to solving some of our states most challenging issues,” Dr. Chris Shuler stated. Dr. Shuler, a hydrologist and researcher with WRRC, spearheaded the creation on a new user-friendly webpage (www.hawaiicesspooltool.org) with information…
UH EPSCoR Awarded $20M for Climate ResilienceMay 2022
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded one of five 2022 Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) RII Track-1 grants to the University of Hawai‘i’s EPSCoR. The project “Change Hawai‘i: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Island Resilience” (Change) will…
UHM Selected by NOAA for New $360M National Water EffortMay 2022
As a partner in the recently formed Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH), UH Mānoa Water Resources Research Center (WRRC) will coordinate the UHM portion of the $360 million grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…