Designing for future Waikīkī with sea-level rise earns honors
UH research “Envisioning Sea Level Rise Adaptation in Waikiki, Hawaiʻi,” received an honorable mention at the AIA Honors and Design Awards.
UH tech research earns boost through new partnership
The partnership will be managed by the UH Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
Kona’s groundwater dependent ecosystems’ deep value described
The study surveyed 19 lineal descendants and resource managers.
Indigenous communities gain improved access to oceanographic data
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System is collaborating with partners in the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
COP26 has failed our children—political compromise cannot be the answer
This editorial by UH Mānoa Associate Dean Chip Fletcher was posted in The Hill on November 17, 2021.
Coastal real estate under serious threat due to climate change
U.S. homebuyers are taking the real estate impacts of climate change more seriously, according to UHERO.
Native Hawaiian scientists sail to Papahānaumokuākea
The 15-day scientific research voyage is aimed at collecting data to develop strategies for climate change.
How the moon’s ‘wobble’ worsens coastal flooding
This editorial by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Assistant Professor Philip R. Thompson was posted in The Hill on July 20, 2021.
Increased high-tide flooding projected for majority of U.S. coastlines
Sea-level rise and natural fluctuations in tidal range are anticipated to cause tipping points in the frequency of high-tide flooding.
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.
