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The 4th CIMAR Symposium
Climate change is affecting all aspects of the world’s biota. The theme of the 4th CIMAR Symposium on Nov. 20, 2024, was “Climate and Communities,” where “communities” implies the broader sense of all interdependent living organisms within CIMAR’s research and applications portfolios in the tropical Pacific. The Symposium welcomed discussion of work exploring the impact of climate change on any of the interdependent communities of living organisms in the tropical Pacific, ranging for example from deep sea food webs to coastal human societies, and including biological, chemical and physical impacts.
Oral and poster sessions were held during the one-day event in the Campus-Center Ballroom. Presenters were a mix of CIMAR researchers, NOAA federal staff, UH faculty and students, and outside experts, in order to further the overarching CIMAR goal of cross-fertilization of ideas among these often-dissociated groups. We plan to upload the live-streamed oral presentations, as well as copies of the posters, to the symposium webpage. You can also check out the previous 2019 symposium webpage here.
CIMAR – 2024 RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year Honorable Mention
UH Sea Level Center – 2024 RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year 1st Place
The UH Sea Level Center operates and maintains more than 90 sea-level and GPS monitoring stations that provide real-time observations from remote and under-resourced locations, such as Haiti, Kiribati, and Tanzania, that would otherwise not be available. They also helped modernize Hawai’i’s tsunami water-level monitoring network.

Matthew Widlansky Honored
Congratulations to Matthew Widlansky for winning 2nd Place at the 2023 RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year Award, in the Research/Project Manager Category! The award ceremony took place on October 24th, 2023, in a luncheon emceed by Hawaii News Now weather anchor Guy Hagi, during which Matthew and several other RCUH employees were honored.
To learn more about Matthew’s work at the University of Hawai’i Sea Level Center, you can check out this RCUH video: Matthew Widlansky – 2023 OEY


New CIMAR Deputy Director
