UH projects totaling $2.1 million address the impacts to air and water quality, public health, ecosystem resilience and community evacuation responses.
The tool will be an essential component in future planning to assess the short and long-term impacts of rising seas and to minimize the risks to coastal communities.
Hawaiʻi Sea Grant faculty will lead projects to improve coastal water quality in Waikīkī and assist communities on the North Shore to adapt to climate change.
This bill makes Kauaʻi the first known county in the nation to commit to using scientific model projections as the basis for construction and planning regulations.
A new Waverider buoy was deployed in Palau through an international collaboration including the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System based at UH Mānoa.
PacIOOS is receiving $3.08 million for the first year of this five-year award to collect, manage, and serve coastal and ocean observing and forecasting data.