Keynote Speaker: Christian Giardina - Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service
10:15am-10:30am
Questions
10:30am-11:15am
Keynote Talk Story
1st Session: 11:20 - 12:15 PM
Time
Speaker, Title
11:20am
Ryan Perroy, Detecting Suspect Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death Trees Via High-Resolution Visible Imagery
11:38am
Andre Nguyen, Using Bioacoustics to Measure ʻIʻiwi Density at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge
11:46am
Bobbie Suarez, Incorporating Detection and Occupancy Coefficients of Pacific Islands Coral Reef Fishes into Biomass Estimation Procedures Indicates Biases of Current Methodology
12:04am
Michael Stone, Assessing the Brand Name Marine Debris Pollution from Southeastern Shores of Hawaiʻi Island
12:12am
Anuhea Robins, Linking Plant Litter and Litter-Dwelling Arthropod Functional Traits to Predict Ecological Interactions
12:20am
Trevor Bak, A Global Signature of Extinction Risk in Marine Fishes
Nikola Rodriguez, How Will Mass Bleaching Events Affect the Prevalence of Ciguatera on Hawaiian Reefs
1:38pm
Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson, The Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center (PICASC)
1:56pm
Kyra Robinson, Natural History & Biogeography of Hawaiian Fungi
2:14pm
Joseph Nakoa III, A Multi-Indicator Approach to Identify Sewage Hotspots Along the Hilo, Hawaiʻi Coastline
2:22pm
Alexander Spengler, MEGA LAB AR - A Coral Reef in your Pocket
2:30pm
Alexa Runyan, Automating Urchin Detection on High-Resolution Benthic Imagery using Machine Learning Techniques
2:45-3:00pm
Closing Remarks
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Time
Morning Event
9:00-9:15am
Opening Remarks
9:15-10:15am
Kuaha Building Workshop, presented by Hālau ʻŌhiʻa
3rd Session: 10:30 - 12:00 PM
Time
Speaker,Title
10:30am
Tracy Wiegner, Identifying Locations of Sewage Pollution Within a Hawaiian Watershed for Coastal Water Quality Management Actions
10:48am
Danielle Bartz, The History of Hammerheads in Hilo
10:56am
Jordan Hemmerly, Comparison of Quantification Methods Used to Measure Success of Scleractinian Coral Populations at Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
11:04am
Sebastian A.W. Wells, Expanding the Capacity for the Preservation and Restoration of Native Forest Habitats on the Island of Hawaiʻi
11:22am
Kainalu Steward, Collaborative Efforts to Reevaluate the Vulnerability of Lalo in Papahānaumokuākea
11:30am
Sofia Ferreria, Automating Coral Species Segmentation and Classification from High Resolution Coral Reef Imagery
11:48am
Lily Gavagan, Analyzing and Mapping Cultural Significant Sites on the Island of Kahoʻolawe
11:56am
Sarah Jeanne Norrbom, Looking at the Whole Picture for Estuary Restoration
12:05 - 1:00 PM Lunch Break
4th Session: 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Time
Speaker,Title
1:00pm
Tim Grabowski, Patterns of Morphological Variation in an Introduced Population of Peacock Grouper Cephalopholis argus around Hawaiʻi Island
1:18pm
Keilani Bonis-Ericksen, Identifying Patterns in Demography, Community Composition, and 3D Structural Complexity on Coral Reefs in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
1:26pm
Amanda Navine, Avian Malaria and the Gut Microbiome in Hawaiian Honeycreepers
1:44pm
Olivia Jarvis, Quantifying the Extent of Weather Buoy Damage to Coral Reefs at Lisianski Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Island
1:52pm
Carson Green & Rachel Willard, Down to Digitize: Tracking Vitality of Corals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands through Geospatial Software
