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The development of a Climate Change Monitoring Network (CCMN) for Hawai’i is a shared goal of a wide variety of Federal, State, and local agencies and other entities charged with understanding and managing natural resources in the State. This CCMN would integrate repeated measurements of geophysical variables (e.g., solar radiation, rainfall, relative humidity, soil moisture, stream flow) and biological variables (e.g., vegetation composition, bird abundance, stream organisms) to provide an enhanced ability to understand ongoing and future changes in Hawai’i. To support this effort, this project developed a series of tools, GIS maps, and plots to visualize the unique and complex climate on the islands of Hawai’i....
Recent work to extend the instrumental record of Hawaiian rainfall (available since the early 1900s ) back several centuries indicates the presence of large and significant variations in rainfall on decadal time scales (see time series graphic above). Parallel efforts to understand agricultural changes in the Hawaiian Islands prior to European influences suggests that after about 1650 CE there was a shift in emphasis to productive maximizing strategies, with implications for the region’s economic and socio-political stability.The above is one of the motivating ideas for conducting this workshop. Previous work by several of the participants argued that an increased reliance on risky product maximization strategies...
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Formed in 2007, the Washington Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Working Group (WWHCWG) is an open collaborative science-based effort to produce tools and analyses that identify opportunities and priorities to provide habitat connectivity in Washington and surrounding habitats (https://waconnected.org). The WWHCWG began with a Statewide Habitat Connectivity Analysis, which highlighted several regions of the state that would benefit from finer-scale analyses. The group has since conducted analyses across many of those regions. The US Fish and Wildlife Service provided funding to develop habitat connectivity models for one of the remaining regions–Washington’s Cascades to Coast region. The goal of this project was to...
This project developed a series of tools, GIS maps, and plots to visualize the unique and complex climate on the islands of Hawai’i. This report descibes those resources and where they are located. These outputs help visualize the long-term trends in the distribution of extreme precipitation across the island chain, as well as changes in the occurrences of very hot days and very cold nights. Overall, the number of hot days has increased across the state while the number of cold nights have declined. The existence of the “Climate at a Glance” web tool, available through NCEI, supports 8 long-term stations in Hawai’i that showcases the temperature and precipitation trends since 1900. Moreover, this tool is dynamically...
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The goal of landscape conservation is to align conservation strategies across jurisdictions and broader geographies than any single organization has the capacity to manage. A landscape approach is critical to meet the emerging needs of state, federal, tribal, and private partners. There are several landscape conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest in various stages. These efforts have different perspectives and practices related to stakeholder engagement, governance, landscape science, decision support tools and implementation strategies. There is tremendous value in sharing experiences, approaches, successes, and challenges. This Forum set the stage for increased coordination and communication around landscape...
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