3-2-1 PODCASTS
Season 2: 2018-2020 Research Projects
Podcast #1: Waterworks
Dr. Peter Fuleky and Sisi Zhang are conducting an innovative study to identify the relationship between economic conditions in different sectors (tourism, health, agriculture, etc.) and the state’s limited water resources. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #2: Resilient Communities
Dr. Daniele Spirandelli and Alisha Summers work with Kauaʻi communities to develop assessments of their vulnerability to developing coastal hazards associated with climate change. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #3: Pathogen Investigation
Dr. Craig Nelson and Jessica Bullington tackle the issue of bacterial pathogens in the Ala Wai Canal, developing a model to determine the risks of infection along the canal and offshore. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #4: Wave Runup
Dr. Martin Guiles and Camilla Tognacchini explore the risks to west Maui of inundation and increased erosion from ordinary ocean waves as base-line sea levels rise. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #5: Seeds of Change
Dr. Camilo Mora and Devon DeBevoise are investigating the relative tolerance of invasive and endemic plants to growing with a wide range of water and temperature conditions that may occur with climate change. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #6: Intertidal Changes
Dr. Joanna Philippoff and Patrick Nichols are leading a longterm project that enlists the help of students to characterize the algae and invertebrate species of Hawaiʻi’s intertidal zone. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #7: Growing Coral
Dr. Peter Marko and Claire Lewis are determining the optimal conditions for growth of the coral Pavona variens to aid in restoration efforts of Hawaiian coral reefs. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #8: Microbial Mechanisms
Dr. Kiana Frank combines modern microbial biology with traditional fishpond management techniques to explore sediment removal from Hawaiian fishponds. Read more about her project here.
Podcast #9: Mesophotic Mapping
Dr. Rob Toonen and Evan Barba explore sediment distribution across the sensitive ecosystems of the mesophotic zone and its connection to land use management decisions. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #10: Metallic Phish
Dr. Megan Donahue and Eileen Nalley look for traces of land-based, metallic pollutants in tissues of commonly eaten reef fishes and the mechanisms involved in their transport from land to fishes. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #11: DNA Detection
Dr. Brian Bowen, Cassie Lyons, and Mykle Hoban capitalize on a new technique of using free-floating environmental DNA sampled from above coral reefs to monitor their health based on the species present. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #12: Erosion Commotion
Dr. Chip Fletcher and Anna Mikkelson employ drones to regularly generate profiles of Waikiki Beach to understand and monitor the movement of sand on, off, and across the beach through time. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #13: Waialua Wastewater
Jordan Mason and Lucas Ellison work with Dr. Craig Glenn using drones to explore possible pollution of Waialua Bay from local on-site sewage disposal systems leaking into groundwater that flows to the bay. Read more about their project here.
Season 1: 2016-2018 Research Projects
Podcast #1: Fish Flow
Meet Dr. Brian Bowen and Michael Hoban and learn about their project tracking important aquaculture fish species from egg production to the reefs where they settle and grow. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #2: Loko iʻa
Meet Dr. Rob Toonen and Kaleonani Hurley and hear about their study of historical harvesting practices of crab populations in Hawaiian fishponds (or loko i'a) and the applicability to today's management practices. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #3: Urban understandings and changing coasts
Meet Dr. Daniele Spirandelli and Theresa Dean and delve into the vulnerability of Hawaiʻi's wastewater infrastructure to a changing climate. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #4: Is it freshwater or saltwater?
Meet Dr. Henrietta Dulai and Trista McKenzie and learn about their efforts to map submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) into Kāneʻohe Bay to measure the nutrient flow from groundwater compared with streams. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #5: The two-to-three-day rule
Meet Dr. Craig Nelson and Krissy Remple and hear about their attempts to develop a new rapid, cost-effective tool to determine water quality where groundwater contamination might occur. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #6: Filter feeders
Meet Dr. Brian Popp and Leilei Shih as they describe their project to evaluate the role of a recent invasive sponge population in Kāneʻohe Bay--for bad or good. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #7: Hawaiian water
Meet Dr. Michael Roberts and Nathan DeMaagd and discover the intricacies of the economics of shifting water demands in the face of climate change. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #8: Humans, water, and rocks
Meet Dr. Craig Glenn, Michael Mathioudakis, and Daniel Dores as they share their work on using drones and water sampling to track groundwater contaminants flowing into Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #9: Fish stress out, too!
Meet Dr. Andre Seale and Dr. Fritzie Brady and learn about their experiments to examine physiological responses in grown tilapia to hormone and pesticide exposure in their early developmental stages. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #10: Carbon and the ocean
Meet Dr. Eric DeCarlo and Lucie Knor and discover their efforts over years to track carbon dioxide levels in the coastal waters of Hawaiʻi and how coastal life and coral reefs are being effects by the changes. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #11: Beach loss, property gain?
Meet Dr. John Lynham and Mel Accad and hear about their ongoing study exploring the economic effects of sea walls on property values over decades. Read more about their project here.
Podcast #12: Our Project in Hawaiʻi’s Intertidal
Meet Dr. Joanna Philippoff and Florybeth LaValle and hear about the OPIHI project studying the intertidal zone ecosystems through time with the help of local students and community members. Read more about the project here.
Podcast #13: Research…beyond shallow waters…
Meet Dr. Rob Toonen and Lindsay Veazey as they discuss their project to map deep coral distributions in the mesophotic zone to understand these unusual ecosystems better and develop a predictive tool to determine where other reefs may lie. Read more about their project here.
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