February 28, 2005

Public Meetings on Tuition Schedule

The university will hold public meetings to discuss the tuition schedule for 2006–07 through 2010–11. Students and the public are invited to present testimony. For the public meeting schedule and more information go the tuition website.

West O‘ahu Plan Moves to Next Step

Four development teams were invited to submit proposals for the West O‘ahu campus-phase I project. The proposals will be evaluated and the final selection will be presented to the Board of Regents at their April meeting.

The university sought expressions of interest from developers for the construction of phase I of the West O‘ahu campus in Kapolei and associated infrastructure in exchange for the development rights to up to 320 acres of non-campus university-owned lands. Phase I includes the construction of four buildings that would support an initial enrollment of 1,520 students.

Selected teams
• Actus Lend Lease LLC, teamed with A & B Properties, Inc.
• Concord Eastridge, Inc.
• Hunt ELP, Ltd.
• UniDev, LLC

Read the press release.

Manoa Schedules Flood Symposium

The Manoa community examines the causes and effects of the disastrous flood that swept through the campus on October 30, 2004, at a symposium on Mon., Feb. 28, 1 p.m. at Kuykendall Auditorium. The symposium includes presentations and discussions with representatives of the National Weather Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the State Department of Land and Natural Resources, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and UH scientists who examined the conditions that led to the severe flooding. A panel discussion will follow. Read more about it.

IPRC Hosts International Conference

AGU Chapman Conference participants. Courtesy of IPRC.

The International Pacific Research Center hosted the international AGU Chapman Conference on “Tropical-Extratropical Climatic Teleconnections, A Long-Term Perspective,” Feb. 8–11. More than 50 paleo-climate and modern-day climate dynamic scientists attended from around the world. The focus was on physical mechanisms that explains worldwide coherent patterns of climate change that have occurred in the past.

Mechanisms that could account for climate change included variations in solar radiation due to changes in Earth’s orbit, variations in greenhouse gases, atmospheric changes in circulation patterns and ocean dynamics. Studies reconstructed paleo-climates from such proxy records as tree-rings, corals, sediment cores, ice cores, stalagmites and charcoal accumulations. Reconstructions of paleo-climates are a basis for testing present-day climate models.

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