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Climate Change Planning Technical Assistance in the U.S. Pacific Territories and Freely Associated States

Report Summary What are the existing climate-related activities, priorities and institutional frameworks for implementing climate change adaptations [...]

July 20, 2017

Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Native Plant Communities

Report Summary Where will sea level rise threaten native coastal plants and cultural assets? This project uses projections of sea‐level rise and [...]

June 12, 2017

Use of downscaled climate models to project future coral bleaching in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Report Summary As coral reef areas become more affected by changing environmental conditions, detailed information about local-scale vulnerability [...]

April 1, 2017

Report from the Workshop on Climate Downscaling and Its Application in High Hawaiian Islands, September 16–17, 2015

Summary In the subtropical and tropical Pacific islands, changing climate is predicted to influence precipitation and freshwater availability, and [...]

January 25, 2017

Resilient Land and Waters Initiative

Report Summary President Obama has recognized Hawai‘i as one of several locations from across the nation where successful partnerships are working [...]

September 30, 2016

Developing a high-resolution elevation map for Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Report Summary Pacific atolls are at extreme and increasing inundation risk due to changing climate and sea level rise. Due to the low flat contours [...]

September 27, 2016

Valuing climate change impacts on coral reef ecosystem services

Summary Hawaiian coral reefs are of great ecological, cultural, and economic value, but they face serious threats including overfishing and pollution [...]

September 2, 2016

Empirical projection of future shoreline position change in the main Hawaiian Islands due to sea level rise

Summary The beaches of Kauaʻi and other Hawaiian Islands are highly important from cultural, ecological, and economic standpoints, but many are [...]

September 1, 2016

Hawaiian seascapes and their management implications

Summary Sociocultural aspects of shore use will be affected by changing climate, but there is a paucity of research on the scales and timelines in [...]

August 25, 2016

Preparing Fishponds for Climate Change in Moloka’i

Summary How can Moloka‘i’s traditional fishpond managers prepare for climate change? This project brings together Hawai‘i’s climate change [...]

July 25, 2016