Four University of Hawaiʻi-led projects received a total of roughly $800,000 in expedited RAPID grants from the National Science Foundation in the wake of the deadly Maui wildfires. RAPID funding is used for proposals having a severe urgency with regard to availability of, or access to data, facilities or specialized equipment, including quick-response research on natural disasters. Three […]

OCEAN, EARTH AND CLIMATE SCIENCE / 2023 Hawaiʻi EPSCoR Alumni Nicole Lautze who was a researchers on the ʻIke Wai project team was featured in UH Noelo. Read more below. AS ONE OF THE MOST GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED REGIONS IN THE WORLD, Hawai‘i residents contend with the highest electricity prices in the U.S., about double of the national

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Giuseppe Torri, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi, about the role of climate change in the Maui wildfire. Giuseppe Torri is a part of the climate science team on the Hawaiʻi EPSCoR Change Hawaiʻi project. Listen here: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193297709/the-role-climate-change-has-played-in-hawaiis-devastating-wildfires

Improved weather and climate forecasting using machine learning and artificial intelligence is the focus of a new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa project. Results are expected to have a major impact in Hawaiʻi and other tropical climate areas around the world. Associate Professor Peter Sadowski from the Information and Computer Sciences Department in the College of Natural Sciences earned a five-year, $424,293 CAREER grant from the National Science