PDKE NEWS
April 22, 2025
Weather Wednesday: Climate change, drought, and fire
Abby Frazier was a guest contributor for Weather Wednesday at the Pacific Daily News
August 11, 2024
Wildfires are expected to worsen in the decades ahead in Hawaii due to climate change
News article on the worsening threat of wildfires in Hawai‘i by Nina Wu.
April 22, 2024
Livestock Wala’au S3 Ep. 12: H-RIP, Hawaii Rangelands Information Portal
PDKE team members joined the Livestock Wala’au podcast to share the launch of the Hawai‘i Rangeland Information Portal (H-RIP) and how ranchers can utilize H-RIP as a decision support tool.
April 8, 2024
Hawaii Faces An Above Normal Risk Of Significant Wildfires Over The Next Three Months
News article on Hawaii’s heightened wildfire risk for May through July 2024 by Thomas Heaton.
December 1, 2023
UN Drought Report Highlights ‘Silent’ Threat to Warming Planet
Bloomberg article on a new UN report that warns of droughts as a “silent” yet escalating emergency.
April 18, 2023
Dr. Ryan Longman presented on the PDKE to the Commission on Water Resource Management at their monthly meeting. The presentation was recorded and can be found here. Ryan’s presentation on the PDKE runs from approximately the 10 to 30 minute mark. An approximately 30 minute question and answer session follows the presentation.
November 18-19, 2022
In November, a team of PDKE researchers attended the Hawai’i Cattlemen’s Council Annual Convention on Hawai’i Island to demo several new decision support tools and climate resources for ranchers. They gave a short presentation in the morning and then manned an interactive booth over the course of the day to demonstrate our online tool the Hawai’i Rangeland Information Portal (H-RIP). They also had a display of one of the Climate Change Climate Variability and Drought (CCVD) portfolios blown up for folks to get a closer look at. The team also handed out factsheets from one of the PDKE’s pilot projects.
November 14, 2022
On November 14, Dr. Ryan Longman was a guest on the Livestock Wala’au podcast and discussed the PDKE and some of the tools that the project is producing. Follow this link to listen to the episode!
June 21, 2022
Professor Ryan Longman is interviewed in this article focused on how drought is affecting ranchers and farmers here in the Hawaiian Islands – “Hawaii’s Extreme Drought Is Forcing Ranchers And Farmers To Get Creative”.
January 5, 2021
Professor Abby Frazier is interviewed in this story of drought in the Hawaiian Islands – “Molokai’s Fabled Axis Deer Are Starving To Death In Droves”.