Nobel prize winning UN food program partners with UH Pacific Disaster Center
The collaboration will focus on disaster planning and preparedness, and risk and vulnerability assessment.
UH Mānoa professor teaching sea-level rise, islander’s poetry at Princeton
Christina Gerhardt will also complete her current book project, an Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise.
Pacific Islands climate change summit addresses adaptation, management
UH Mānoa and UH Hilo will help host a virtual science summit for researchers, cultural and natural resource managers, officials, practitioners and stakeholders.
Buy local, revive ancient Hawaiian farming
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln will share equitable food systems strategies at a UH-sponsored virtual conference on economic recovery as a result of the pandemic.
Guy Kawasaki, Nainoa Thompson on Hawaiʻi’s economic recovery strategy
UH will host a 4-day virtual conference based on an economic recovery plan as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Architecture students craft award-winning pieces using local wood
Students earned awards at the Innovation+Imagination Student Challenge, which is on exhibit as a “show within a show” at Hawaiʻi's Woodshow.
Sea-level rise challenges can be met by atoll communities
Low-lying reef islands such as the Marshall Islands could become unstable by mid-century and permanently lost as soon as 2080.
UH expert named to prestigious national committee on ocean plastic waste
Mary J. Donohue was selected by the National Academies of Sciences to serve on the Committee on United States Contributions to Global Ocean Plastic Waste.
Wave energy powers desalination system developed by UH team
Teams were challenged to develop concepts using wave energy to drive small-scale desalination systems for use in disaster response scenarios.
Good environmental policy requires understanding people
The study demonstrates that sound environmental policy requires improved understanding of the diverse ways that people benefit and relate to these systems.
