IPRC-CAE joint mini-workshop on Climate Change Impacts

The schedule of speakers and titles is as follows.

9:00-9:25 a.m.    Yihui Ding “Impact of climate change and urbanization effect on extremely heavy rainfalls in megacities in China”

9:25-9:50 a.m.    Hongliang Lyu “The influence of extreme climate on urban planning management in China”

9:50-10:15 a.m.    Bin Wang “Predictability of extreme climate events in China”

10:15-10:45 a.m.    Coffee break

10:45-11:10 a.m.    Yihui Ding “Impact of the global sea rise of megacities in the coastal zone of China and adaptation”

11:10-11:35 a.m.    Tiffany Anderson “Modeling the impacts of sea level rise on Hawaiian coasts”

11:35 a.m.-12:00 p.m.    Denghua Yan “The impact of climate change on waterlogging of China’s coastal city and the coping strategies”

Speaker:  Viktoria Kahui, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Title:  From Foragers to Marine Stewards

Global Environmental Symposium: Speakers are as follows.

–Katy Christensen, The Upper Layer Variability of an Antarctic Glacio-Marine Fjord: Andvord Bay, Western Antarctica Peninsula (Mentor: Mark Merrifield, Oceanography)

–Yazhou Fu, Using Climate Variables and Airborne Lidar Derived Vegetation Structure for Accessing the Habitat of Breeding Birds: A Case Study in Minnesota (Mentor: Qi Chen, Geography)

–Michelle Marchant, Application of Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) on the Island of Oahu (Mentors: Oceana Francis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Yaprak Onat, Ocean and Resources Engineering)

–Dalton Muchow, Standoff Categorization of Organics for Planetary Exploration (Mentor: Anupam Misra, Hawaii Inst. of Geophysics and Planetology)

–Jaline Seruge, Application of a QPCR Based Test for Enterococci as a Rapid Beach Management Tool in Hawaii: Issues with the PCR Inference (Mentor: Marek Kirs, Water Resources Research Center)

–Alisha Summers, Beach Loss, Seawall Construction, and Land-Use Patterns at Odds with Coastal Zone Policy (Mentor: Chip Fletcher, Geology and Geophysics)

–Jennifer Wong-Ala, Disentangling Biophysical Factors Affecting Reef Fish Recruitment in West Hawai’i Island (Mentor: Anna Neuheimer, Oceanography)

Reception to follow 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Speaker:  Chris Kelley, UHM Undersea Research Lab

Title:  Deep Sea Discoveries in the Expanded Waters of Papahanaumokuakea

Please arrive by 6:15 p.m. Parking is free after 4:00 p.m., no admission fee for the seminar. Questions? Call (808) 397-5840 or e-mail hbaynews@hawaii.edu.

Speakers:  Masato Yoshizawa, Professor, and Lillian Tuttle, Postdoctoral Researcher, UHM Dept. of Biology

Title:  Evolution of Sensory System and Autism-like Behaviors and its Emerging Relationship with Gut-Biota in Cavefish

Speaker:  Hui (Daisy) Shi, Graduate Assistant, UHM Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences

Title:  What Caused the Weakest Indian Summer Monsoon Around 1600 and Abrupt Monsoon Increase Afterwards?

Light refreshments will be provided so please bring a mug and join us for coffee, tea, and cookies.

Speaker:  Becky Chong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Integrative Biology & Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Univ. of Texas at Austin

Title:  Effects of Genome Organization and Genetic Variation on Symbiont Evolution

Speaker:  Elizabeth Madin, Deputy Director of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University Marine Research Center, New South Wales, Australia

Title:  Research Seminar