Symposium Agenda
8:00 Call to Order & Welcoming Remarks
- Chip Fletcher – Interim Dean (bio) – SOEST – UH Mānoa
- T. Todd Jones – Director (bio) – Fisheries Research and Monitoring Division – Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
- Doug Luther – Director (bio) – CIMAR
The Climate Change Solution
8:30 Chip Fletcher – Interim Dean (bio) – SOEST – UH Mānoa
“Human converging crises: climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socioeconomic inequality.”
9:00 Brian Powell – Professor (bio) – Department of Oceanography – UH Mānoa
“Impacts of climate change on the coastal and pelagic ecosystems of Hawaiʻi”
9:15 Ryan Rykaczewski – Marine Biology Supervisor (bio) – Ecosystem Sciences Division – PIFSC
“Developing a system to provide climate and ecosystem hindcasts, forecasts, and projections on regional scales”
9:30 Kisei Tanaka – Marine Biologist (bio) – Ecosystem Sciences Division – PIFSC
“Regional divergence of extreme marine heat events in Pacific Island coastal waters: A high-resolution SST analysis (1985-2023)”
9:45 Shellie Habel – Coastal Geologist/Hydrologist (bio) – Department of Earth Sciences – UH Mānoa
“The influence of sea-level rise on coastal groundwater and resulting impacts on municipal infrastructure”
10:00 Coffee / Posters
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Tropical Pacific Coastal Ecosystems in a Changing Climate
10:45 Andrea Kealoha – Assistant Professor (bio) – Department of Oceanography – UH Mānoa
“Coastal water quality following the Lahaina wildfire”
11:00 Andrew Glinsky – Marine Turtle Research Camp Field Technician (bio) – Protected Species Division – CIMAR/PIFSC
“What to do about Lalo? Challenges and research updates from the battered nesting habitat of Hawaiʻi’s green sea turtle (honu)”
11:15 Hannah Barkley – Marine Biologist (bio) – Ecosystem Sciences Division – PIFSC
“Estimating coral reef carbonate budgets using structure-from-motion photogrammetry”
11:30 Tye Kindinger – Marine Biologist (bio) – Ecosystem Sciences Division – PIFSC
“The role of herbivory for the persistence of coral reefs”
11:45 Noam Voigt-Vincent – Postdoctoral Research Fellow (bio) – Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology – UH Mānoa
“Anthropogenic climate change will likely outpace coral range expansion.”
12:00 Elizabeth Madin – Associate Research Professor (bio) – Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology – UH Mānoa
“Predator-prey interactions on coral reefs and climate change”
12:15 Lunch (on our own)/Posters
Fisheries and Communities
13:45 Eileen Nalley – Fisheries Extension Specialist (bio) – Department of Oceanography – UH Mānoa
“Understanding ciguatera poisoning in Hawaiʻi and the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands”
14:00 Jessica Perelman – Quantitative Fish Ecologist (bio) – Ecosystem Sciences Division – CIMAR/PIFSC
“Partners in practice: Exploring connections between Hawaiʻi’s environment and pelagic fisheries with local fishers”
14:15 Erin Reed – Fish Life History Bio-Sampling Specialist (bio) – Fisheries Research & Monitoring Division – CIMAR/PIFSC
“Hawaiʻi fishermen help improve accuracy of length-at-maturity estimates in a data-limited species”
14:30 Adam Ayers & Jonathan Fisk – Senior Social Research Project Manager (bio) / Social Researcher (bio) – Ecosystem Sciences Division – CIMAR/PIFSC
“The dynamic roles of CIMAR social scientists at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center”
14:45 Justin Suca – Assistant Professor (bio) – Department of Oceanography – UH Mānoa
“Drivers of Catch and By-catch Rates in Hawaiʻi’s Longline Fisheries”
15:00 Refreshments/Posters
Leveraging Advanced Technologies to Monitor Ecosystems and Enhance Resilience
15:45 Camille Pagniello – Assistant Researcher (bio) – Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology – UH Mānoa
“Marine top predators as ocean observing platforms and sentinels of climate change”
16:00 Yvonne Barkley – Cetacean Acoustic Researcher (bio) – Protected Species Division – CIMAR/PIFSC
“Developing cetacean distribution models that integrate passive acoustic data from slow-moving recorders”
16:15 Josh Tucker – Fisheries Electronic Monitoring Specialist (bio) – Fisheries Research & Monitoring Division – CIMAR/PIFSC
“ML model development automate catch detection in the Hawaiʻi longline fishery”
16:30 Matthew Widlansky – Associate Director, UH Sea Level Center (bio) – Department of Oceanography – UH Mānoa
“Exploring AI’s role in communicating sea level science: A collaboration of human and artificial imagination”
16:45 Brian Glazer – Associate Professor (bio) – Department of Oceanography – UH Mānoa
“Out of the lab and into the communities: Public-private partnerships for increasing coastal flooding resilience.”
17:00 Tianlu Wang – Assistant Professor (bio) – Mechanical Engineering Department – UH Mānoa
“Leveraging small-scale bioinspired soft robotics to understand, monitor, and intervene in marine ecosystems.”
17:15 Posters / Post-Symposium Discussions / Refreshments
18:30 End