This Sea Grant Graduate Fellow returns to her hometown to study groundwater dependent ecosystems, and share with the world the ways the people of Kona use, value, and care for wai (water) and that which is dependent upon it.

Hawaiʻi is a hotspot for biological diversity and home to some of the rarest plants in the world. But these unique species are under threat from their neighbors and the sea. Learn more about these threats and how ongoing research may be able to help.

What’s a beach day worth? What’s the economic value of Waikīkī Beach? What do people like and how do they make choices when it comes to recreation? This post takes a brief look at surveying to find answers to these questions.

As a way to help people envision a resilient Waikīkī adapted to future sea-level rise, the use of sketches and renderings are important communication tools. Learn about using images to help the public understand sea-level rise as a problem and ways that Waikīkī may adapt to it.

Learn about how a UH Hilo research group is using dye tracer tests to assess how cesspools along Hilo shorelines may be contributing to sewage pollution issues in coastal waters. But even if they can successfully trace the problem, what are the solutions?

Ever wondered what an agroforest is? Or what one of the most productive agricultural systems was in Hawaiʻi pre-contact? Envision with us alternate futures for currently un-managed agricultural lands across Hawaiʻi as we work to model the benefits and tradeoffs of agroforest restoration.