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| Name | 21st Century Rainfall Projections for Hawaii |
| Description | This project uses statistical downscaling methods to estimate future rainfall changes over Hawaii for the mid and late 21st century. Seasonal rainfall, daily variability, frequency of dry/wet spells, and the frequency of extreme storm events will be estimated. This project compliments dynamical modeling. The model is specific to Hawaii and makes use of the HaleNet high-resolution climate monitoring array. Maps will be developed that contain high-resolution seasonal mean rainfall scenarios for the mid and late 21st century that can be implemented within GIS applications. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | IPRC, SOEST |
| Contacts | Oliver Elison Timm(timm@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | A Coupled Climate-Ecosystem Observatory Along Elevational Gradients on Windward and Leeward Hawaii Island |
| Description | A series of climate stations and permanent vegetation plots, used to examine conditions now, and to follow over the long-term, to be able to study how climate interacts with forest growth, mortality, and species composition; contains two elevation gradients, one in windward side and one in leeward side. This research is part of the Environmental Dynamics and Ecosystem Responses (ENDER) Climate Agenda of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Hawaii. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | DLNR, USDA, Other |
| Contacts | Becky Ostertag(ostertag@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Adapting to Climate Change in the Coral Triangle (ACT) |
| Description | Adapting to climate change in the Coral Triangle. This is a sub-project of the GEF Coral Triangle Initiative, a multi-agency partnership led by the ADB. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Agricultural Food Crops Development in Kiribati |
| Description | This project aims to maintain main existing gene banks: to increase and diversify food crop production throughout Kiribati; to make more people attracted to, see economic opportunities in, and engaged in varieties of agricultural systems; and to increase efforts at planning out and meeting support requirements for agricultural activities throughout the islands. |
| Status | proposed |
| Focus Area | None |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Application of Latest IPCC Climate Models to Forecast Possible Marine Ecosystem Changes in the North Pacific Over the 21st Century (1 of 2) |
| Description | Coral reef ecosystem health is highly impacted by ocean temperature variability. The NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) has been recording subsurface temperature data from various habitats (forereef, backreef, and lagoon) and depth ranges (1 – 35 m) in coral reef environments from around the Pacific in disparate oceanographic regimes for 10 years. To better understand subsurface temperature variability across various habitat, depth, and regional oceanographic conditions, these data need to be analyzed in the context of seasonal to interannual variability, for correlations of regional to basin scale forcing mechanisms, and compared to remotely sensed products, which is currently the scientific standard for assessing thermal conditions on coral reefs. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | JIMAR, PIFSC |
| Contacts | Jamie Gove(jamison.grove@noaa.gov), Russell Brainard(rusty.brainard@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Application of Latest IPCC Climate Models to Forecast Possible Marine Ecosystem Changes in the North Pacific Over the 21st Century (2 of 2) |
| Description | Take output from the latest IPCC climate models that include a phytoplankton component and use various approaches to project possible high trophic level impacts. The approaches include i) a biome approach, ii) driving ecosystem/fisheries models with phytoplankton output from the climate model, iii) a size spectrum model approach. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | PIFSC |
| Contacts | Jeffrey Polovina(jeffery.polovina@noaa.gov), Phoebe Woodworth(phoebe.woodworth@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Project Preparation Facility (ADAPT) |
| Description | Increase access to financial resources for climate change adaptation investment projects; strengthen national human and institutional capacity in preparation of financing proposals; and strengthen regional knowledge platform to share information and processes on climate change projects, funds and best practices to promote replication and scaling up. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, TNC, Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Asia Pacific Mangrove Monitoring |
| Description | We are working with various Pacific Island nations to identify the ecological attributes of mangroves that may be more resilient to sea level rise. This involves a Pacific-wide surface accretion table network that quantifies the rate at which mangroves are rising or falling in relation to sea level rise. This information is also being used to help secure C credits, which can be used to restore of conserve these valuable ecosystems. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | USDA, USGS, Other |
| Contacts | Rich MacKenzie(rmackenzie@fs.fed.us) |
| Name | Asian Development Bank Technical Assistance: Regional Partnerships for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness |
| Description | The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is funding Technical Assistance TA 6496-REG, Regional Partnerships for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness, to develop exposure databases (information on the built environment) that support greater resilience to climate impacts and natural disasters through facilitating decision-making on hazard exposure and risk minimization. The databases will also support an assessment of the feasibility of a regional pooled catastrophe insurance scheme and its subsequent development. GNS Science International Ltd, in association with the Pacific Disaster Center, has been contracted to carry out the TA. Eight Pacific island countries (Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) are to be involved in this initial project. The project duration is from September 2009 to September 2011. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | GNS, PDC, SOPAC |
| Contacts | Phil Glassey(p.glassey@gns.cri.nz), Chris Chiesa(cchiesa@pdc.org) |
| Name | Assessing Climate Change Effects on Forest Bird Populations in the Alakai, Kauai |
| Description | Uses population counts since the mid-1980s, blood samples, some mosquito counts, and changes in temperature and streamflow to assess the effect of climate change on forest birds in the Alakai, Kauai. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | UHM, USGS |
| Contacts | Gordon Tribble(gtribble@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Building Climate Resilient Communities in American Samoa |
| Description | This project will model sea level rise scenarios in 2-3 villages in American Samoa. In Amouli village, we will conduct a PLA workshop presenting the results to village members and developing a community plan for improving climate resiliency. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | PIFSC, PIRO |
| Contacts | Arielle Levine(arielle.levine@noaa.gov), Fatima Sauafea-Leau(fatima.sauafea-leau@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Central Oahu Watershed Study |
| Description | This project aims to support the National Climate Assessment by examining climate-sensitive decisions related to fresh water management in the Central Oahu Watershed. Specific questions being addressed include: 1) Who are the key stakeholders?; 2) What climate-sensitive decisions are they making about fresh water management?; 3) What climate information do/could they use to support their decision making?; and 4) What capabilities do they have to use climate information? |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | ICAP, Pacific RISA |
| Contacts | Melissa Finucane(Melissa.Finucane@EastWestCenter.org), Maxine Burkett(BurkettM@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Changes in Distribution and Abundance of Native Forest Birds in High Elevation Habitat on Hawaii Island |
| Description | Recent research has shown that high elevation forests critical to the persistence of native Hawaii forest birds may be disproportionately susceptible to climate change. Begin long-term quarterly sampling of birds from Hakalau Forest NWR to document the response of this important bird community to a changing climate. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | BRD |
| Contacts | Patrick Hart(Patrick_J_Hart@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Cities and Climate Change Initiative Asia Pacific |
| Description | This initiative aims to strengthen the climate change response of cities and local governments. The main objectives are to: promote active climate change collaboration between local governments and associations; to enhance policy dialogue on climate change; to support local governments in preparing climate action plans; and to foster awareness, education and capacity building. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Climate Change Adaptation for Coastal Communities Training |
| Description | The Climate Change Adaptation for Coastal Communities course provides professional development for resource managers, planners, and program administrators on the fundamental concepts, latest information, and necessary skills to proactively address impacts of climate change in coastal communities. The 32-hour curriculum covers climate related topics including climate science and impacts, climate governance, climate communications and adaptation strategy development and implementation. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | CRC, CSP, ONMS, Other |
| Contacts | Adam Stein(adam.stein@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Climate Change and Pacific Island Water Resources |
| Description | We are taking a three-tiered approach to examine how changes in precipitation will impact stream flow and habitat. The first tier is a space for time substitution, where are sampling various parameters in streams located along a naturally occurring steep precipitation gradient (2500-6000 mm/yr). The second tier involves remeasuring those parameters over to document inter and intra annual variation. The third tier incorporates all of the above data into a model (DHSVM) to forecast the impacts of climate change on stream ecosystems. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | DAR, UHH, UHM, USDA, Other |
| Contacts | Rich MacKenzie(rmackenzie@fs.fed.us) |
| Name | Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands |
| Description | The U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) is noteworthy for its naturally vibrant and dynamic nature – extreme events, variability and change are ubiquitous. The sea-level in these islands raises one immediate concerns of a rising trend, to varying degrees, over the past 15 to 20 years. The sea-level rise in the USAPI from 1997 to 2008 does agree with the faster rate of predicted average global sea-level rise. However, it is unclear to what extent the rise is a reflection of recent natural decadal variability on an actual increase in the rate of the longer-term trend attributable to climate change. As observations do confirm that the sea levels have recorded a rise faster than the IPCC projections at some of the USAPI stations over the last 20 years, more research is necessary to test the hypotheses of the causes of longer-term trend for which a more formal modeling effort is warranted, whether statistical, dynamical, or a combination of both. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | JIMAR, PEAC |
| Contacts | Rashed Chowdhury(rashed@hawaii.edu), Tom Schroeder(tas@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Climate Change Assessment in Small Pacific Island States (CCASP) |
| Description | Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are recognized under Articles 4.8 and 4.9 of the UN Framework for Climate Change (UNFCCC) as being the most vulnerable parties to the adverse impacts of climate change. The CCASP has two main goals: 1) to enhance scientific, economic and human adaptive capacity of Pacific SIDS to climate change and related hazards risks, with specific focus on CCA to tropical cyclones, sea level rise and storm surges, vulnerability and impact assessments of climate sensitive sectors (tourism, fisheries and agriculture) through the application of participatory approaches, economic analysis of the implication of global climate change policies and measures on Pacific SIDS, in terms of their potential participation in the international carbon market; and 2) transfer and diffusion of clean technologies and to improve links between climate change science and policy communities. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | BI, CMCC, PSIDS CLIPAC, PdM |
| Contacts | Antonia Narrava(navarra@bo.ingv.it), Pene Lefale(pene.lefale@metservice.com), Jotham Napat(jnapat@meteo.gov.vu) |
| Name | Climate Change Effects to Hawaiian Vegetation |
| Description | Consists of using existing climate change projections to assess spatial changes to the configuration and extent of major kinds of climatic vegetation in the Hawaiian Islands. Product under development. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, UHH, UHM, USGS |
| Contacts | Jonathan Price(jpprice@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Climate Change Impacts on Critical Ecosystems in Hawaii and U.S. Pacific Islands Territories |
| Description | The overarching goal of this project is to enable a process of routine monitoring and an assessment of ongoing climatic changes and provide quantitative, empirical-statistical estimates of future climatic changes and their impacts on biological resources in the Hawaiian Islands. Aside from precipitation, we will also specifically target the relation between local evapotranspiration (ET) and projected climate changes of the North Pacific. Based on statistical downscaling methods, we will project future rainfall changes at individual stations. The hourly HaleNet data (1992-2010) will be analyzed with modern time-series analysis methods and multivariate statistical tools to identify connections between North Pacific climate variability and local ET. Products to be derived from this analysis will include time series of monthly, seasonal and annual mean ET and first estimates of the probable range of future ET changes. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | IPRC, SOEST |
| Contacts | Oliver Elison Timm(timm@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Climate Change Impacts Report for Hawaii |
| Description | On-going: Providing technical advice for decision makers at the Department of Land and Natural Resources & the Department of Accounting and General Services, as well as other Hawaii State and County decision makers through requests. Also providing technical review and advice for the Hawaii Ocean Resource Management Plan through its Working Group. Proposed: Specific outreach project for assessing local decision maker needs for sea-level rise data and products, relaying those needs to scientists, and then delivering products and training back to stakeholders. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | DLNR, UH Sea Grant |
| Contacts | Chris Conger(conger@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Climate Monitoring Across a Wide Range of Ecosystems in Hawaii |
| Description | The goal of this project is to ensure continued operation and maintenance of the HaleNet climate and ecosystem sensor array on Maui. The high quality data produced by HaleNet are critical to calibration and validation of downscaled climate models for Hawaii, tracking actual climate trends and variability, and testing ecosystem response models. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | FWS, NPS, USGS |
| Contacts | Tom Giambelluca(thomas@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Climate Variability Influences on Trends in Streamflow and Precipitation Records at Selected Sites in the Pacific Islands Region |
| Description | Analysis of streamflow and precipitation trends during different phases of ENSO and PDO at selected sites in Hawaii, American Samoa, and Western Pacific islands. Trends will be analyzed using non-parametric statistical tests and spectral analysis. Results will be published in scientific journal article. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Pacific RISA, PIWSC, USGS |
| Contacts | Delwyn Oki(dsoki@usgs.gov), Lisa Miller(ldmiller@usgs.gov), Victoria Keener(KeenerV@EastWestCenter.org) |
| Name | Coastal and Marine Resources Management in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific |
| Description | To promote the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant coastal and marine resources in the Coral Triangle region through the introduction of integrated and ecosystem-based coastal and marine resources management in five Pacific countries. Includes the implementation of pilot adaptation measures to enhance resilience and increase capacity to respond to the adverse impacts of climate change on coastal and marine ecosystems. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Coastal Community Planning and Development Training |
| Description | The Coastal Community Planning and Development training will enable participants to understand, plan, and guide alternative growth and development efforts in their communities. This two-day course provides participants with the background, examples, strategies, and resources needed to support alternative development efforts. The many benefits of alternative development include the potential to strengthen resilience to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA |
| Contacts | Susan Fox(susan.fox@noaa.gov), Steve Frano(steve.frano@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) |
| Description | The Coastal Data Information Program operates, collects, analyzes, disseminates, and archives near real-time wave data and sea surface temperature. The historical data from high-resolution wave buoys is valuable for addressing climate variability. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | DBW, USACE |
| Contacts | Julie Thomas(jot@cdip.ucsd.edu) |
| Name | Coastal Inundation Mapping Course |
| Description | This two-day instructor-led course, designed for certified floodplain managers, NWS personnel, and county, state, and municipal officials (including planners, emergency managers, and coastal resource managers), offers a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises to give students a better understanding of coastal inundation issues and mapping methods using a geographic information system (GIS). Topics include the different types of coastal inundation, elevation data sets and datums, spatial methodologies used to map flood areas in a coastal environment, the applications and limitations of various types of inundation products, and exercises for assessing coastal risk. A Pacific version of the course is being developed and planned to be taught in Hawaii in FY11. This version will focus on Pacific issues such as SLR, tsunamis, and high wave events. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | CSC, PSC, Other |
| Contacts | Doug Marcy(doug.marcy@noaa.gov), Matt Pendelton(matt.pendleton@noaa.gov), Adam Stein(adam.stein@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Combatting Coral Bleaching and Ocean Acidification |
| Description | Management techniques that prevent bleaching of limited reef areas are the only direct interventions known that might reduce coral mortality due to climate change. This project explores methods to cool areas of coral reef and test bleaching recovery methods on coral reefs in American Samoa. This study will measure efficacy and scalability of this technology for potential future tests and use in a deployable or installed system. Additionally, it will monitor nearby bleaching levels and validate the NOAA predictive bleaching model. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | ASDMWR, Other |
| Contacts | Brian Von Herzen(brian@climatefoundation.org) |
| Name | Community-based Adaptation (CBA) Programme |
| Description | The objective of the program is to enhance the capacity of communities in the pilot countries to adapt to climate change including variability. In Samoa: The projects completed as part of the CBA program focus on coastal ecosystems and the maintenance of their goods and services. Projects underway as part of this initiative are: 1) Satoalepai Coastal Resources Adaptation Project (co-funded by AusAID); 2) Reducing impacts of climate change-driven erosion through protection and conservation of mangroves, eco-systems, and coral reefs; 3) Community-Based Adaptation against flooding and sea level rise in the communities of Fagamolo, Avao, Vaipouli, Salei'a and Safai; and 4) Community-Based Adaptation for Lelepa Village. |
| Status | completed |
| Focus Area | None |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Cook Islands Infrastructure Development Project - Increasing Climate Resilience of Island Infrastructure |
| Description | This project aims to promote environmentally sound development of infrastructure for power, water supply, sanitation, solid waste, and transport in support of the Government’s pro-poor objectives. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region |
| Description | Enhance the competence and capabilities of the local population, the national governmental authorities and regional organizations - SPC and SPREP - in order to cope with the effects of climate change and combat its causes. At the regional level, the program aligns with the Pacific Island Framework for Action on Climate Change 2006–2015. Originally only involving Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu, the project has been expanded and extended. It includes reviewing policies and integrating adaptation considerations into them, and focuses on the management of land and coastal natural resources, as well as tourism. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | SPC, Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Coral Reef Restoration, Monitoring, and Stock Enhancement in Kiribati |
| Description | This project aims to gain more detailed information on observed coral bleaching, including factors causing health problems to the corals and ciguatera fish poisoning; to establish, implement a sustainable monitoring program to cover two atolls; to pilot a restoration scheme for coral species in areas of low growth; and to establish marine protected areas. To establish a project where stock enhancement contributes in maintaining a vigorous coral reef. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Coral Resilience in Hotter, More Acidic Oceans |
| Description | Mechanisms of coral calcification and the synergistic impacts of temperature, carbonate chemistry and feeding on coral growth and survival. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, NPS |
| Contacts | Rob Toonen(toonen@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Designing a Framework to Address Climate Impacts on Cultural Resources |
| Description | Climate change will be an added stressor on all systems - biological, ecological, social, economic, political, and cultural. Because of the location amidst the heart of the Earth climate system, the Pacific Islands are among the first to experience the impacts of climate change. The National Park Service has interest in anticipating how protection of cultural resources, stewarded by the park service, will likely be impacted by climate change. The intent of this project during the initial year, or phase one, is to design a framework for addressing climate change impacts on cultural resources related to national parks in Pacific Islands, and to use two test cases in the development of the framework. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | HCEP |
| Contacts | Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Determining Orthometric Heights on Different Water Wells on the Island of Hawaii and Guam |
| Description | To determine the accurate elevations on the different water wells. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | NGS, USGS |
| Contacts | Edward Carlson(ed.carlson@noaa.gov), Todd K. Presly(tkpresle@usgs.gov), Jeff A. Perreau(jperreau@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Determining Vertical Datum for the Islands of Hawaii |
| Description | Digital Leveling by State of Hawaii: 1) Re-establishing the old level lines on Oahu (~ 211 miles), and Maui (~182 miles); 2) Increasing the level network on Kauai (~128 miles) and Hawaii (~410 miles); 3) Establishing new level lines on Molokai (~56 miles) and Lanai (~14 miles). GPS: 1) The State of Hawaii will GPS as many bench marks as possible 2) Will submit the GPS data to NGS using OPUS-DB or Blue Book the data to be included in the NGS Integrated Data Base (IDB). CORS Reference System Network to be contracted by State of Hawaii: 1) Establish a state wide CORS/ Reference System network of 7 on Oahu, 8 on Maui, 6 on Kauai, and 9 on Hawaii. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | DOT, NGS |
| Contacts | Edward Carlson(ed.carlson@noaa.gov), Chris Guerin(christopher.guerin@hawaii.gov) |
| Name | Developing a DST for Understanding Impacts of Climate Change and Invasive Species on Watershed Function and Aquatic Habitat Quality |
| Description | We are working with to develop a user-friendly decision support tool that will identify what, where and when specific management actions are needed to increase the resilience of Pacific Island landscapes. We have fully parameterized and calibrated a Distributed Hydrology, Soils, Vegetation Model (DHSVM), which we have used to model how various climate and invasive species scenarios will impact water yield. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | DAR, UHM, USGS |
| Contacts | Rich MacKenzie(rmackenzie@fs.fed.us) |
| Name | Developing a Method for Adaptive Management and Protection from Climate Change in Mangrove and Coral Reef Ecosystems |
| Description | This project sought to develop a generalizable approach for assessing vulnerability and adaptation of mangroves and associated ecosystems in high biodiversity tropical mangrove areas and associated coral reed, sea-grass and upland ecosystems. |
| Status | completed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Developing Capacity to Better Predict Composition of Reef Communities in Future Intensifying Climate Change Based on Analysis of Symbodinium |
| Description | Examine the impact of climate change on coral reef communities in the National Park of American Samoa. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | HIMB, NPSA |
| Contacts | Ruth Gates(rgates@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Development of Adaptation Strategies and Community-based Risk Management Tools for Four Vulnerable Communities in the Cook Islands |
| Description | The project will incorporate community-based impact and adaptation strategies within four vulnerable communities on Aitutaki and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. The project will develop replicable community-based adaptation risk management tools to minimize risks on critical infrastructure and service sectors, and help climate-proof vulnerable community investments. |
| Status | completed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change |
| Description | The two specific objectives of the study were: (1) to develop a global estimate of adaptation costs to inform the international community’s efforts to tailor support and provide new and additional resources to help vulnerable developing countries meet adaptation costs; and (2) to support decision makers in developing countries to better evaluate and assess the risks posed by climate change and to better design strategies to adapt to climate change. In Samoa: Research project to understand the effects of two climate change scenarios on Samoa’s infrastructure, human health (malaria) and forestry sectors. |
| Status | completed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Effect of Groundwater Pumping and Climate Change on Ancialine Ponds in West Hawaii |
| Description | Experimental tests of tolerances native Hawaiian damselflies and shrimp to a range of salinity. As sea level rises and/or precipitation and groundwater flows decrease in West Hawaii, the ability of native pool fauna to survive in anchialine pools will depend partly on salinity tolerance. Use experimental data on the sensitivity of aquatic invertebrates in anchialine ponds to assess how climate change will affect their habitat. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | BRD, NPS, Other |
| Contacts | David Foote(DFoote@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Effects of Landscape Change on Island Birds |
| Description | This project models bird species' responses to long-term and large-scale landscape change on Pohnpei Island, Federated States of Micronesia. Data from bird surveys spanning back to 1983 combined with 30 years of vegetation mapping will be used to create a predictive model of species change to guide reforestation and assess climate change model projections. This is the first effort of this kind in the Pacific Islands outside of Hawaii. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | Dylan Kesler(KeslerD@Missouri.edu) |
| Name | Enabling Kiribati Effective Participation at Regional and International Forums on Climate Change |
| Description | To enhance the effectiveness of conveying climate change related information based on Kiribati national circumstances to regional and international meetings on climate change. To increase Kiribati capability to influence international efforts at mitigating climate change, and at addressing immediate and urgent, and longer term adaptation needs. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Communities to Climate Change-Related Floods in the North Coast and Islands Region of Papua New Guinea |
| Description | The overall objective is to strengthen the ability of communities in Papua New Guinea to make informed decisions about and adapt to climate change-driven hazards affecting both coastal and riverine communities. In particular, the program will focus on resilience towards occurrences of coastal and inland flooding events. Concept approved by Adaptation Fund Board in June 2011. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Enhancing Resilience of Communities in the Solomon Islands to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change in Agriculture and Food Security |
| Description | Enhancing resilience of communities in the Solomon Islands to the adverse effects of climate change in agriculture and food security. Concept submitted to the Adaptation Fund Board. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Enhancing Resilience of Communities of the Cook Islands through Integrated Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Measures |
| Description | Vulnerability assessment, development of community based adaptive management plans and institutional strengthening. Concept note approved by the Adaptation Fund Board on December 15, 2010. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Enhancing Resilience of Rural Communities to Flood and Drought-Related Climate Change and Disaster Risks in the Ba Catchment Area of Fiji |
| Description | This project will integrate climate change into current flood/drought risk management through information generation, training and dissemination. This project will concentrate on four areas: Climate early warning and information systems; Community based adaptation to flood and drought related risk and hazards; Institutional strengthening to support climate-and disaster-resilient policy frameworks; and Awareness raising and knowledge management. Concept approved by Adaptation Fund Board in June 2011. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Environmental Change and Coral Symbiosis |
| Description | 1) Genetic diversity of Symbiodinium communities across a gradient of thermal stress anomalies on Oahu and NWHI. 2) Metabolomics response of coral-symbiodinium associations under different environmental conditions. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | None |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, UHH |
| Contacts | Ruth Gates(rgates@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Extremes in the Pacific Integrated Case Studies (EPICS) |
| Description | EPICS (formerly know as Event Anatomies) was a part of and is the follow-on from a project referred to as Pacific Region Integrated Climatology Information Products (PRICIP), an effort focused on improving the understanding of patterns and trends of storm frequency and intensity within the Pacific region. The concept of historical storm events case studies includes summaries of sector-specific socioeconomic impacts associated with a particular extreme event, as well as its historic context climatologically. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | IDEA, NCDC |
| Contacts | Eric Wong(eric.wong@noaa.gov), John Marra(john.marra@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary Climate Smart Sanctuaries Initiative |
| Description | The Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary (FBNMS) in American Samoa recognizes the immense value of community-based management and has adopted a participatory approach to climate change adaptation planning in the territory. In an effort to promote community resiliency and protect coastal resources from the potential impacts of climate change, FBNMS is implementing Climate Smart Sanctuary process to help inform climate change planning in the territory. The Climate Smart Sanctuary process was developed by the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) to guide climate change planning at national marine sanctuary sites across the United States. The Climate Smart Sanctuary process includes the development of a sanctuary climate site scenario to describe possible climate change impacts and a climate action plan designed to address those impacts. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | FBNMS |
| Contacts | Gene Brighouse(gene.brighouse@noaa.gov), Emily Gaskin(emily.gaskin@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Forecasting Sea Level Rise at Pupping and Nesting Beaches in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands |
| Description | Advance our understanding of sea level dynamics and future trends at key islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands that are used by the endangered Hawaiian monk seal, the Hawaiian green sea turtle, and various sea birds. This work may require downscaling of climate model sea level to obtain fine scale changes around the atolls. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | PIFSC |
| Contacts | Charles Littnan(charles.littnan@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Framework to Support Climate Change Adaptation Measures and Investments for Agriculture, Tourism, Water Resources and Infrastructure in Palau |
| Description | Development of a framework to support climate change adaptation measures and investments for agriculture, tourism, water resources and infrastructure in Palau. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Future Distribution of Cloud Forests and Associated Species in Hawaii |
| Description | This project will predict future distributions of cloud forests and species across high mountain ecosystems in Hawaii. Hawaii’s cloud forests represent the last remaining intact habitat for many endangered forest bird species and are critical to watershed function on all islands. This project will provide future distribution models by integrating products from a climate-vegetation network on Haleakala with new regional downscaling of future climate projections. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | UHM, Other |
| Contacts | Sara Hotchkiss(sara@geology.wisc.edu) |
| Name | Gene Expression Analyses of Temperature Adaptation and Stress in Native Animals |
| Description | Identifying techniques for rapid assessment of stress due to temperature or other factors before population decline. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | BRD, UHH |
| Contacts | Donald Price(donaldp@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Genetic Diversity of Corals and Resilience |
| Description | Corals in patch reefs at Pearl & Hermes atoll, French Frigate Shoals, and Kaneohe Bay genotyped with environmental sensors in situ (Temp, Ph, Salinity). |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | HIMB, NOAA |
| Contacts | Steve Karl(skarl@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Global Climate Change Alliance |
| Description | The Global Climate Change Alliance seeks to deepen the policy dialogue between the European Union and developing countries on climate change and to increase support to target countries to implement priority adaptation and mitigation measures, and integration climate change into their development strategies. The program’s five priority areas for funding are: improving the knowledge base of developing countries to the effects of climate change; promoting disaster risk reduction; mainstreaming climate change into poverty reduction development strategies; reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation; and enhancing participation in the Clean Development Mechanism. In Solomon Islands: The Solomon Islands Climate Change Assistance Programme’s objective is to support the Government of the Solomon Islands by increasing its capacity for policy enhancement, coordination and implementation of its national Climate Change strategy in line with its NAPA and National Disaster Risk Management |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | High Resolution Climate Model for Hawaii |
| Description | This project is developing a regional dynamical model with high resolution over islands at a scale that is ecologically relevant to management of natural and cultural resources. This will enable direct estimation of future climate at conservation sites, inform species distribution modeling, and species and site management planning. The model will be useful for high islands in Mariana Islands, Samoa, and Micronesia as well as Hawaii. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | IPRC, Pacific RISA, SOEST |
| Contacts | Kevin Hamilton(kph@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | ICAP Sea-Level Rise Policy Study |
| Description | The Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy advises Hawaii decision-makers regarding adaptation to sea-level rise. In late 2010 ICAP collaborated with the NOAA Pacific Services Center and Coastal Storms Program to develop a sea-level rise policy study project, the goal of which will be to increase community resiliency to the climate impacts of sea-level rise. Building on the scientific research of Dr. Chip Fletcher, this project is incorporating input from state decision-makers as it identifies best practices and policy options for adaptation. Project activities, launched at the beginning of March 2011, include outlining strategies to address existing legal and policy opportunities and barriers to climate change adaptation, with a focus on sea-level rise; developing model ordinances or draft policy language that local legislators and government officials can use to facilitate the emerging sea-level rise adaptation policy; and planning and implementing outreach to legislators an |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | ICAP |
| Contacts | Maxine Burkett(burkettm@hawaii.edu), Leslie Ricketts(lricketts@hawaii.edu), Adam Stein(adam.stein@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Improving the Adaptive Capacity of Communities in the Solomon Islands to the Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability in the Health Sector |
| Description | Improving the adaptive capacity of communities in the Solomon Islands to the impacts of climate change and climate variability in the health sector. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Incorporating Climate Change Impacts to Protected Species into Regulatory Analyses Required Under the Endangered Species Act |
| Description | The Protected Resources Division (PRD) at NMFS Pacific Islands Regional Office is responsible for the implementation of the Endangered Species Act. Under Section 7 of the ESA, Federal agencies are required to consult with PRD when an action they intend to fund, permit, or carry out may affect listed species. A Biological Opinion resulting from a formal Sec. 7 consultation must analyze the impacts of the action on listed species in the context of the environmental baseline, past and present Federal Actions within the action area, and future non-Federal actions anticipated within the action area. The impacts of climate change on listed species are discussed in Biological Opinions written by PIRO PRD in the context of the temporal and spatial extent of the Federal action in question. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NMFS, NOAA, PIRO, OPRD |
| Contacts | Lisa Van Atta(alecia.vanatta@noaa.gov), Lance Smith(lance.smith@noaa.gov), Pat Opay(patrick.opay@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Increasing Climate Resiliency of the Transport Sector in the Asia-Pacific |
| Description | Increasing climate resiliency of the transport sector in the Asia-Pacific. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Increasing Resilience of Tuvalu Coastal Areas and Community Settlements to Climate Change |
| Description | To increase the protection of livelihoods in coastal areas in all inhabited islands of Tuvalu from dynamic risks related to climate change and climate variability. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Increasing Resilience to Climate Change and Natural Hazards in Vanuatu |
| Description | Climate resilience and disaster risk reduction strengthened in key sectors in Vanuatu by promoting a risk management approach to reduce vulnerabilities. The project includes implementation of climate resilience measures in targeted sectors. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Integrating Climate Change Risks into the Agriculture and Health Sectors in Samoa |
| Description | To increase the resilience and adaptive capacity of coastal communities in Samoa to the adverse impacts of on agricultural production and public health. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Integrating Socioeconomic Assessments to Build Community Resilience in Mitigating Drought |
| Description | The project scope of work is intended to: 1) Engage multiple stakeholder networks (the Hawaii Ag Alliance, the Hawaii Drought Council, and the Farm Bureau) to collect socioeconomic and livelihood data related to drought; 2) Develop culturally and context appropriate protocols and guidelines for sharing and integrating data in dynamic systems mapping and analyses to understand complex relational networks and sectors impacted by drought; 3) Integrate socioeconomic data with updated drought risk maps that can be used to visually demonstrate risks and vulnerability and can inform decision support tools; 4) Use the most recent climate projections with downscaled impacts for Hawaii to develop climate scenarios that can be used to identify options for adaptation and food security; and 5) Enhance multi-hazard and drought mitigation plans to strengthen resilience of communities and government to cope with impacts from drought and develop food security alternatives. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | HCEP |
| Contacts | Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Integration of Climate Change Risk and Resilience into Forestry Management in Samoa |
| Description | The objective of the project is to increase the resilience and adaptive capacity of Samoa's forest areas and the communities dependent on them for livelihoods to the threat of climate change through targeted adaptation interventions in (i) lowland agro-forestry and (ii) upland native forest sub-sectors. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | International Action Plan for the Improvement of the National Spatial Reference System on the Island of Pohnpei |
| Description | In collaboration with the Pacific region of the NWS: 1) Establish a least one Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) at the weather station. (NOTE: The Pacific region of NWS is already planning on installing a CORS from funding it is receiving from the Coastal Storm Program); 2) Establish a Cooperative Base Network (CBN) to a minimum of order B standards; 3) Establish geodetic quality leveling network (about 80km); and 4) Train island personnel in high accuracy GPS and geodetic leveling techniques. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | NGS |
| Contacts | Edward Carlson(ed.carlson@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Island-Specific Structural Risk and Vulnerability Assessment |
| Description | To assess the structural risk and vulnerability of facilities for the UH System Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan and the State of Hawaii Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan, a method was developed that integrates cursory engineering field surveys, topographic windspeed analysis, soil analysis and liquefaction data, and building inventory and locations into a modified HAZUS-MH model. The results are island-specific assessments of structural risk that include aggregation of risk evaluated as average annualized losses for the State from critical facility impacts and as event-driven scenario-based data by hazard that shows loss of functionality and damages to facilities. Based on the assessment, it is possible to develop and prioritize a retrofit strategy for critical facilities and support proposals for funding with benefit-cost analyses. |
| Status | completed |
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| Lead Agencies | HCEP |
| Contacts | Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu), Martin & Chock, Inc.(structures@martinchock.com) |
| Name | Kiribati Adaptation Program Phase II - Pilot Implementation |
| Description | The program aims to develop and demonstrate the systematic diagnosis of climate-related problems and the design of cost-effective adaptation measures, while continuing to integrate climate risk awareness and responsiveness into economic and operational planning. The project has 5 broad components: 1) policy, planning, and information; 2) reducing the vulnerability of the coastline including key public assets and ecosystems 3) the development and management of freshwater resources; 4) providing technical assistance to build capacity at island and community level; and 5) project management. |
| Status | completed |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Kiribati Adaptation Program Phase III - Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Hazards |
| Description | The project aims to improve the climate resilience of Kiribati’s government and communities by strengthening their capacity to manage climate change effects and improve the management and governance of water resources and infrastructure. Other objectives of the project include increasing the availability and quality of water at the community level and protecting targeted coastal areas from storm waves and flooding. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Kiribati Coastal Zone Management and Resilience Enhancement for Adaptation |
| Description | This project aims to improve public awareness of the coastal processes and climate change impacts in Kiribati. To develop and pilot community-based coastal management regime by establishing community groups (essentially villages). To encourage communities to participate in coastal-ecosystem enhancement projects and to develop their own small scale projects with similar purposes. To streamline regulatory controls and conditions so as to ensure the resilience of the coastal areas and to ensure the sustainable use of coastal resources is enhanced. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Kiribati Water Resource Adaptation Project |
| Description | To maintain and conserve available good ground water lenses; to gain users confidence in the reliability of the distribution system and promote their willingness to pay, based on consumed quantity; to increase water storage and water resources to meet current demands and at times of serious droughts; to manage risks to water resources throughout the atolls; and to assess impacts of urban water supplies on other natural resources, systems and subsistence activities. This will be achieved through risk assessments and the design and implementation of responses, including sustainable community-based monitoring system. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Kona Coffee Growers Precipitation Study |
| Description | 1) Document and collect all available rainfall and temperature records from the area; 2) Analyze available data for trends/oscillations and differences due to location and elevation; 3) Investigate available models/information for applicability of downscaling techniques; 4) Develop pilot climate information products based upon analysis of past data and future projections to meet their requirements; 5) Assess benefits of pilot products and revise as appropriate; and 6) Continue the assessment for changes in requirements, improvement of future projections, and additional knowledge/research. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | NWS, PEAC |
| Contacts | Charlene Felkley(peac@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Local 3-Month Precipitation Outlooks |
| Description | Local 3-Month Precipitation Outlooks (L3MPO), akin to its already operational counterpart, the Local 3-Month Temperature Outlooks (L3MTO), is currently in testing stages. L3MPO will include approximately 1,200 sites across continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii. These outlooks will be based on the guidance provided in the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Probability of Exceedance (POE) 3-month precipitation outlooks. The L3MPO will use local climatological biases together with expected regional climate variability derived from the more general CPC outlooks. |
| Status | proposed |
| Focus Area | |
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| Lead Agencies | CPC, CSD, NCDC, OCWWS, Other |
| Contacts | Annette Hollingshead(annette.hollingshead@noaa.gov), Marina Timofeyeva(marina.timofeyeva@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Local 3-Month Temperature Outlooks |
| Description | Local 3-Month Temperature Outlooks (L3MTO) is produced operationally for about 1,200 sites across continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii. These outlooks are based on the guidance provided in the Climate Prediction Center’s (CPC) Probability of Exceedance (POE) 3-month temperature outlooks. The L3MTO will use local climatological biases together with expected regional climate variability derived from the more general CPC outlooks. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | CPC, CSD, NCDC, OCWWS |
| Contacts | Annette Hollingshead(Annette.Hollingshead@noaa.gov), Marina Timofeyeva(Marina.Timofeyeva@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Local Climate Analysis Tool |
| Description | The Local Climate Analysis Tool (LCAT) will enable National Weather Service (NWS) Regional Headquarters, Weather Forecast Offices (WFO), Weather Service Offices (WSO), and River Forecast Centers (RFC) the ability to conduct regional and local climate studies using station and reanalysis gridded data and various statistical techniques for climate analysis. The analysis results will be used for climate services to guide local decision makers in weather and climate sensitive actions and to deliver information to the general public. LCAT will augment current climate reference materials with information pertinent to the local and regional levels as they apply to diverse variables appropriate to each locality. The LCAT outcomes will be useful for governmental, economic and business planning. NWS external partners and government agencies will benefit from the LCAT outputs that could be easily incorporated into their own analysis and/or delivery systems. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | CSD, OCWWS |
| Contacts | Annette Hollingshead(annette.hollingshead@noaa.gov), Marina Timofeyeva(marina.timofeyeva@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Mainstreaming Gender Aspects in Climate Change Adaptation and Low-Carbon Development |
| Description | This project contributes to mainstreaming gender into climate change adaptation and low-carbon development measures in climate policy. It produces training material and over the long term will improve the adaptive capacity of local communities in Bangladesh and the Pacific region. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | SPC, Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Management of Critically Endangered Dry Forest Ecosystems |
| Description | We will model plot-based information on fuel loading, restoration treatments, and plant communities to the landscape level. This will allow us to develop scenario modeling based on land management goals (i.e., restoration of threatened and endangered habitat, fire prevention, and/or combinations of any or all of the above) and threats (invasive species, climate change, land-use change). Allows us to estimate potential fire behavior under a variety of restoration and/or climate change scenarios. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | UHM, USDA, Other |
| Contacts | Susan Cordell(scordell01@fs.fed.us) |
| Name | Marine Ecosystem Response to Environmental Changes |
| Description | Long-term monitoring of physical and chemical water characteristics and benthic and pelagic community structure at two established marine plots in west Hawaii island. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | UHH |
| Contacts | Steven Colbert(colberts@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Monthly ENSO Discussions, Seasonal Rainfall Outlooks and Sea Level Discussion |
| Description | The PEAC Center conducts a monthly conference call that discusses monthly sea level, the ENSO state, the PEAC rainfall outlook, and island reports from around the South Pacific. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | NWS, PEAC |
| Contacts | Charlene Felkley(peac@noaa.gov) |
| Name | NOAA OceanWatch - Central Pacific |
| Description | The NOAA OceanWatch - Central Pacific office produces numerous oceanographic satellite remote sensing data products that range in coverage from Hawaii-specific to global. Among the datasets available include multi-decade time-series of sea-surface temperature, sea-surface height and geostrophic currents, surface chlorophyll-a ocean color, and ocean surface winds. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | CW, NESDIS |
| Contacts | Lucas Moxey(lucas.moxey@noaa.gov), Jeffrey Polovina(jeffrey.polovina@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Ocean Acidification & Impacts on Living Marine Resources within Rose Atoll, Marianas Trench & Pacific Remote Island Areas National Marine Monuments |
| Description | This is a NOAA Hollings scholar project hosted by the NMFS Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center in the June-July 2011 time frame. It is basically an undergraduate project on ocean acidification and impacts on living marine resources within the Rose Atoll, Marianas Trench and the Pacific Remote Island Areas National Marine Monuments. Impacts include: environmental degredation; change in species dynamics; effects of environmental degradation and changes in species dynamics; and effects on humans. |
| Status | completed |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | PIFSC |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Opihi Partnership |
| Description | Community-based effort to monitor intertidal communities through time and better manage cultural and natural resources. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | NOS, NPS, SH, TNC, Other |
| Contacts | Rob Toonen(toonen@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Pacific Climate Impacts Resource Guide |
| Description | The Pacific Climate Impacts Resource Guide is being developed to provide citizens and decision-makers a set of Pacific-focused, cultural and currently available materials to help frame and clarify the key issues related to climate change organized around the impact sectors identified in the report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. The Guide will also provide a recommended set of actions to help mitigate the impacts of climate change in the Pacific. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | IDEA, UH Sea Grant |
| Contacts | Darrin Okimoto(okimotod@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Pacific ENSO Update Quarterly Newsletter |
| Description | The Pacific ENSO Update, a quarterly newsletter, provides tailored climate forecasts for the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI). The newsletter focus is to introduce new climate research and provide relevant climate information to climate sensitive sectors such as water resources, fisheries, agriculture, civil defense, energy and others of economic and environmental importance to the USAPI. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | NWS, PEAC |
| Contacts | Charlene Felkley(peac@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Pacific Island Land Ocean Typhoon Experiment (PILOT) |
| Description | Collection of wave data and water levels in a coral reef environment. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | USACE |
| Contacts | Stanley Boc(stanley.j.boc@usace.army.mil) |
| Name | Pacific Islands Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PACC) |
| Description | PACC will implement long-term adaptation measures to increase the resilience of a number of key development sectors in the Pacific Islands to the impacts of climate change. This objective will be achieved by focusing on adaptation response strategies, policies and measures to bring about this result. The key development sectors this project will focus on are: 1. water resources management; 2. food production and food security; and 3. coastal zone and associated infrastructure (roads and breakwater). To ensure sustainability of the project, regional and national adaptation financing instruments will constitute a fourth component of the project. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | SPREP, Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Pacific Islands Climate Education Partnership (PCEP) |
| Description | The PCEP vision is to foster learning about climate change among the region’s students and citizens in ways that honor Indigenous cultures and values. Addressing the urgency of climate change impacts, PCEP highlights the synergies among modern science, local Pacific Island environmental knowledge, and traditional indigenous ways of knowing. As a result of PCEP, students and citizens within the region will have enhanced knowledge and skills that (i) advance a broadly shared understanding of climate change, (ii) highlight and honor traditional Pacific Island values of identification with and respect for the environment, and (iii) enable and facilitate community-based and evidence-informed decisions on how to adapt to the impacts of changing climates and mitigate the extent of climate change. In its initial phase, the PCEP focuses on building a broad, deep and diverse partnership that through its collaborative infrastructure, expertise, and knowledge base develops a strategic education p |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | PREL, WestEd |
| Contacts | Sharon Nelson-Barber(nelsons@prel.org), Art Sussman(asussma@wested.org) |
| Name | Pacific Islands Climate Prediction Project |
| Description | The project aimed to expand understanding of how seasonal climate prediction services can be applied to support climate-sensitive decision making and the use of climate predictions by National Meteorological Services and industries/agencies which use climate information (e.g., farmers, tourism, water resource managers and health authorities). Along with the provision of software tailored to local circumstances and training in the effective use of climate predictions in a risk management context, the project undertook specific pilot activities. |
| Status | completed |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | AUSAID, BOM |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System Support: A Joint US/NZ Bilateral Project (PI-GCOS SSP) |
| Description | High quality surface meteorological observations are of fundamental importance to a large and increasing number of activities of significance to human societies. They are essential for weather operations and climate research, and they underlie the climate and weather services and products that are required for informed decision making and that are likely to become even more important in the future as societies design strategies to adapt to human induced climate change. As important as climate and weather observations are, the needs for well functioning observing networks are substantial. Observations must be of high quality over appropriately long time scales and at the required spatial resolution to meet a variety of societal needs. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | MetService, NCDC, NIWA, PI-GCOS, PI-NMS, SPREP |
| Contacts | Howard Diamond(howard.diamond@noaa.gov), Pene Lefale(pene.lefale@metservice.com), Doug Ramsay(d.ramsay@niwa.co.nz) |
| Name | Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) |
| Description | As part of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) is a partnership of data providers and users working together to enhance ocean observations and develop, disseminate, evaluate and apply ocean data and information products designed to address the needs of stakeholders who call the Pacific Islands home. This integrated observing and information system provides information to address: 1) Coastal Hazards Resilience; 2) Maritime Safety and Security; 3) Coastal Water Quality; 4) Ocean Planning and Management; and 5) Education and Outreach. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, SOEST |
| Contacts | Chris Ostrander(chriso@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Pacific Mangroves Initiative |
| Description | In this project, data will be collected and analyzed to identify climate risks and assist participating countries to create policies for management and restorations of mangroves and associated ecosystems. Public awareness will also be part of the project. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | SPREP, Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Pacific Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (Pacific RISA) |
| Description | The major goal of Pacific RISA is to integrate flexible processes for building adaptive capacity to climate variability and change in diverse island settings. Our main foci are: 1) ground water resource management; and 2) multi-hazard mitigation planning. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | |
| Region/Locale |
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| Lead Agencies | EWC |
| Contacts | Melissa Finucane(Melissa.Finucane@EastWestCenter.org), Nancy Lewis(LewisN@EastWestCenter.org), Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Pacific RISA Climate Adaptation Law and Policy Analysis |
| Description | In 2010, ICAP joined the Pacific RISA team and launched a project to assist governments in preparing and adopting cost-effective, efficient, and equitable adaptation measures. Pacific RISA integrates regional physical and social science to provide information and support for climate change adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands. In the first project year, September 1, 2010 – August 31, 2011, ICAP is surveying the capacity and quality of laws that control water use in Hawaii. The goal of this analysis is to understand and measure the ways in which the current framework addresses—or fails to address—the need to manage water resources with the ability to adapt to climate-driven vulnerabilities in Hawaii’s fresh water system. The analysis has begun to identify potential barriers to implementing an enhanced adaptive approach to water resource management. To address these and other shortcomings, the current study will include research into indigenous approaches to adaptation and adapt |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | ICAP |
| Contacts | Maxine Burkett(burkettm@hawaii.edu), Zena Grecni(zgrecni@hawaii.edu), Melissa Finucane(finucanm@eastwestcenter.org) |
| Name | Pacific Sea Level Extremes Outlooks Products |
| Description | The objective of this effort is to build upon seasonal sea level outlooks currently provided by the NWS Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center as well as similarly types of information being provided by other agencies, institutions, and organizations in the Pacific Islands region. The goal is to provide information to planners, managers, and other decision-makers that affords them an opportunity to appropriately address risks from elevated water levels. This information takes into account the complex and highly localized interplay of oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial processes affecting SLR/coastal inundation together with climate change. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NCDC |
| Contacts | John Marra(john.marra@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Pacific Sea Level Extremes Scenario Products |
| Description | The objective of this effort is to advance best practices pertaining to the formulation of probabilistic Sea Level Rise (SLR)/coastal inundation scenarios for specific locations in the Pacific Islands. The goal is to provide information to planners, managers, and other decision-makers that affords them an opportunity to appropriately address risks from elevated water levels. This information takes into account the complex and highly localized interplay of oceanic, atmospheric, and terrestrial processes affecting SLR/coastal inundation together with climate change. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NCDC |
| Contacts | John Marra(john.marra@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Pacific Storms Climatology Products (PSCP) |
| Description | Pacific Storms (http://www.pacificstormsclimatology.org/) is focused on improving our understanding of patterns and trends of storm frequency and intensity - storminess - within the Pacific region. It is exploring how the climate-related processes that govern extreme storm events are expressed within and between three thematic areas: heavy rains, strong winds, and high seas. It is developing a suite of extremes climatology-related data and information products that can be used by emergency managers, mitigation planners, government agencies and decision-makers in key sectors including water and natural resource management, agriculture and fisheries, transportation and communication, and recreation and tourism. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NCDC |
| Contacts | John Marra(john.marra@noaa.gov) |
| Name | PACRAIN/Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE) |
| Description | Two related tasks: 1) PACRAIN - Collection, archival and dissemination of all available Pacific historical (daily, monthly, hourly) rain gauge data; 2) Schools of the Pacific Rainfall Climate Experiment (SPaRCE) - Training and equipping primary, secondary, post-secondary and technical schools with professional quality meteorological equipment (e.g., rain gauges). Data from schools are incorporated into the PACRAIN database. It is important to note the respective schools and students take ownership of the equipment and data. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | COM |
| Contacts | Mark Morrissey(mmorriss@ou.edu), Susan Postawko(spostawk@ou.edu) |
| Name | Papua New Guinea Disaster Risk Management and Climate Adaptation Program |
| Description | This project will concentrate on disaster risk management in the agriculture and transport sectors. The following activities will take place: 1) Agriculture: assessment of climate change and disaster risks; feasibility study for agriculture risk insurance for smallholder farmers; emergency response plan; crop selection; and strengthening rural agriculture networks; 2) Transport sector: integrated hazard risk information and mapping; capacity building; research; risk assessment; pilot mitigation measures. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) |
| Description | PPCR aims to pilot and demonstrate ways in which climate risk and resilience may be integrated into core development planning and implementation in a way that is consistent with poverty reduction and sustainable development goals. In this way, the PPCR provides incentives for scaled-up action and initiates transformational change. The pilot programs and projects implemented under the PPCR are country-led, build on NAPAs and other relevant country studies and strategies. Pacific participation includes Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Piloting Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human Health |
| Description | To increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to climate change-sensitive health risks. In Fiji: The principal expected benefit for the health sector is having a functional Health Information System that is capable of generating early warnings for climate sensitive diseases and communicating these effectively to relevant stakeholders. The project will also: create awareness amongst communities; further strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and communication within all levels the Ministry of Health; strengthen inter-sectoral collaboration at all levels with other key government agencies (such as the Fiji Meteorological Service and the National Disaster Management Office) and organizations such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent. The project contributes to the revival of the Fiji Climate Change Country Team to ensure proper coordination of climate change activities in the country. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Portfolio-Based Climate Services for the Disaster Management Community in Hawaii |
| Description | The purpose of this collaborative project is to build capacity in the development, analysis, and delivery of climate information tailored to the needs of disaster management communities. The project will use the Climate Information Delivery and Decision Support System (CLIDDSS) as the technical platform for data portfolio management to support the distribution of information through newsletter formats to multi-sector disaster managers about their climate-related risks. The newsletter will provide data analysis and briefings to propose mitigation actions to reduce hazard risks. The project involves working with a well-defined community to develop a process for: 1) determining the types of climate data sets that would be most useful; 2) managing the data; formatting the data in visual displays most meaningful to the hazards community; and 3) interpreting and linking potentials risks and decision making options. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | HCEP |
| Contacts | Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Predicting Impacts of Sea Level Rise for Cultural and Natural Resources in Five Hawaii Parks |
| Description | Fine scale digital elevation models and models of sea level rise; GIS products for various sea level rise scenarios for 2100 along the Ala Kahakai NHT corridor in relation to important, mapped features (plant communities, anchialine pools, cultural sites, wetlands, fishponds); GIS products that highlight important nearshore habitats such as anchialine pools and fishponds, and show the likely location of these habitats in 2100 based on sea level rise and surrounding physical and biological parameters. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | Lisa Marrack(lmarrack@berkeley.edu) |
| Name | Predicting Risks of Island Extinctions Due to SLR: Model-based Tools to Mitigate Terrestrial Habitat Losses in the NW Hawaiian Islands |
| Description | Collection of topographic data for selected islands and development of DEM models. Map current and future habitat for seabirds based on static (bathtub) SLR on most islands and dynamic (inundation) SLR on Laysan and Midway. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | USGS |
| Contacts | Michelle Reynolds(MReynolds@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Predicting the Impact of Storm Waves and Sea-Level Rise within the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument |
| Description | Recent storms (11 January and 11 February 2011) and a tsunami (11 March 2011) have underscored the intrinsic potential for sea-level rise to damage wildlife populations and ecosystems of the low-lying Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (PMNM). The goal of this study is to provide maps of wave impact and storm-induced inundation levels for Midway Atoll and Laysan Island using historical hindcast wave data and new high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) for a variety of sea-level rise scenarios. Model-derived wave-driven run-up heights will then be added to present or predicted elevated sea levels to compute total water levels and thus the limit of inundation. These total water levels will then be projected onto a detailed LiDAR DEMs relative to the location of previously-mapped important natural resources and infrastructure. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | USGS |
| Contacts | Curt Storlazzi(cstorlazzi@usgs.gov), Michelle Reynolds(mreynolds@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Preparedness for Climate Change |
| Description | The aim of this program was for the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies in countries particularly vulnerable to climate change to gain a better understanding of climate change and its impacts to identify country-specific adaptation measures in line with risks. The project was Global including 39 countries. The Pacific participants in Phase 1 were the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Tonga. Activities could include organizing a workshop on risks, assessment of risks through preparation of a background document, capacity building programs, and developing climate change resilient plans. |
| Status | on-going |
| Focus Area | None |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Projecting Ecosystem Impacts from Climate Change in the North Pacific with the GFDL Climate Model |
| Description | GFDL model output covering physics, chemistry, and lower trophic level biology. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | PIFSC |
| Contacts | Jeff Polovina(Jeffrey.Polovina@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Reducing Climate Risks to Food Security in Niue through Integrated Community-based Adaptation Measures and Related Institutional Strengthening |
| Description | The project will strengthen ability of communities and government officers in Niue to make informed decisions and manage likely climate change driven pressures in food-security related sectors, such as agriculture, fisheries and forestry, in an integrated way. Reviewed at the Adaptation Fund Board in November 2010 but not endorsed. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | USAID |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Regional Partnerships for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness |
| Description | This work is linked to the World Bank’s work on the development of a Caribbean Catastrophe Insurance Facility for the Pacific. In the first phase of the project, data will be gathered for catastrophe risk models in each country, and country-specific loss risk profiles will be created in order to assess the feasibility of catastrophic risk financing and insurance options. The outcome is expected to be a strengthened information system that will support informed decision-making aimed at minimizing the negative social and environmental impacts of catastrophic events. It will also mitigate the financial risk of participating Pacific developing member countries to the effects of natural disasters, including those exacerbated by human-induced climate change. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Responses of Hawaiian Albatrosses to Environmental Change |
| Description | Climate variability will likely have important effects on the future of marine ecosystems and may present a significant challenge for marine top predators. This project will investigate how current patterns of natural climate variability (e.g., El Niño Southern Oscillation events) impact Laysan and black-footed albatrosses that breed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and then model possible responses of the birds to long-term climate driven changes in oceanographic conditions. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, Other |
| Contacts | Scott Shaffer(Scott.Shaffer@sjsu.edu) |
| Name | Risk and Vulnerability Assessment of Sea Level Rise in Hawaii |
| Description | This project seeks funds to develop a model sea-level rise (SLR) inundation project to assess the risk and vulnerability of selected low elevation coastal lands in Hawaii. The project region for Year 1 includes the urban corridor of Honolulu, Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor. The project region includes urban Honolulu with high density development, large population, major infrastructure and transportation improvements representing the majority of the State of Hawaii commercial and industrial sectors. Recent global projections for SLR suggest elevations by the end of the century will be significantly higher, possibly on the order of 1 m or higher than current mean sea level. Therefore, coastal communities and ecosystems within low-elevation regions, are vulnerable to increased exposure to coastal hazards related to SLR in addition to direct impacts resulting from SLR. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | UHM, SOEST |
| Contacts | Dolan Eversole(eversole@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Samoa-Australia Partnership for Development: Climate Change |
| Description | Australia is supporting the Government of Samoa to implement activities under Samoa’s NAPA, primarily in the water, forest and tourism sectors. This includes a national tourism adaptation strategy setting out adaptation standards for tourism services (e.g., to manage surface floods in the capital Apia) and a national strategy for forest fire prevention. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Samoa National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) |
| Description | National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change - those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. Proposed projects in the Samoa NAPA are: 1) Securing Community Water Resources; 2) Reforestation, Rehabilitation and Community Forestry Fire Prevention ; 3) Climate Health Cooperation Program; 4) Climate Early Warning System; 5) Agriculture and Food Security Sustainability; 6) Zoning and Strategic Management Planning; 7) Implementation of Coastal Infrastructure Management Plans for Highly Vulnerable Districts; 8) Establishing Conservation Programs in Highly Vulnerable Marine and Terrestrial Areas of Communities; and 10) Sustainable Tourism Adaptation. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Samoans Turn to Traditional Housing as Sanctuary from Climate Risks |
| Description | To recover indigenous cultural knowledge held by Samoan elders about housing and climate, and to apply this to the design and construction practices of Samoan indigenous housing in order to inform the development of safer, accessible, resilient, and sustainable housing. To put indigenous knowledge into practice through the construction of three model Samoan houses (Fale) in three coastal sites. To reinvigorate village-based teaching and practice of growing materials, crafting, and constructing indigenous Samoan housing. To engage three village communities in a public education program about climate risk and developing risk management plans for the hazards that they will face. |
| Status | completed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Satellite Climatologies |
| Description | Satellite records of global surface variables are becoming more common, including ocean SST, sea level and surface winds. It is proposed to make a high-quality climatology based on these satellite records for climate studies. The process should be straightforward and would include assuring consistency across the different time-scales available for each record (weekly, ten-day, monthly depending on the sensor). Such climatologies could be used to put extreme events into perspective with respect to the mean annual cycle. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | Jim Potemra(jimp@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Scenario Planning for Climate Change in Hawaii National Parks |
| Description | The NPS Climate Change Response Program will sponsor a Scenario Planning training workshop for NPS staff and stakeholders in Hawaii in CY 2012. This cooperative project will support and compliment the NPS training by providing SP expertise and experience, particularly with respect to relevant cultural and community concerns. One of the primary goals is to provide an example of SP that addresses cultural and natural resources, and also draws in a diverse compliment of park stakeholders to focus on climate change. A longer-term goal to begin building a network of parties that will continue to interact with each other, permitting larger-scale, more comprehensive approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NPS, SSRI |
| Contacts | Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Sea Level Rise and Changes in Storminess on U.S. High-island Fringing Reefs |
| Description | We are actively conducting USGS-funded research on sea-level rise and changes in storminess on U.S. high-island fringing reefs in the U.S. and U.S.-territories, primarily in U.S. National Parks. Tasks include in situ data acquisition and development of coupled wave-current-sediment transport numerical models to investigate potential future climate change impacts on coral reef ecosystems. We have proposals into the USGS, USFWS, and DOD investigating sea-level rise and changes in storminess on U.S. atolls in the U.S. and U.S.-territories. Proposed tasks include in situ data acquisition and development of coupled wave-current-sediment transport numerical models and hydrologic models to investigate potential future climate change impacts on natural resources, freshwater availability, and infrastructure. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | USGS |
| Contacts | Curt Storlazzi(cstorlazzi@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer |
| Description | Being able to visualize potential impacts from sea level rise is a powerful teaching and planning tool, and the Sea Level Rise Viewer brings this capability to coastal communities. A slider bar is used to show how various levels of sea level rise will impact coastal communities. The initial project areas include Texas’ Houston and Galveston coasts and Mississippi, with additional coastal counties to be added in the near future. Visuals and the accompanying data and information cover sea level rise inundation, uncertainty, flood frequency, marsh impacts, and socioeconomics. This tool will be expanded to Hawaii in the next couple years, working with local researchers. |
| Status | planned |
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| Lead Agencies | CSC, PSC, Other |
| Contacts | Doug Marcy(doug.marcy@noaa.gov), Adam Stein(adam.stein@noaa.gov) |
| Name | Sea Level Rise Impacts to Coastal Wetlands and Other Habitats |
| Description | This project models the projected sea-level rise at coastal sites on Oahu and Maui, developing methods that can be applied to other Pacific islands. Stakeholder workshops will be used to assess needs and identify final products, including map visualizations. These results will help inform management responses for vulnerable coastal wetlands and beach areas that host endangered species and cultural sites. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | CRCP, SH, SOEST |
| Contacts | Chip Fletcher(fletcher@soest.hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Seasonal Sea Level Outlook for the U.S-Affiliated Pacific Islands |
| Description | This project describes: 1) the Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) forecasts (mean and maxima) for sea-level deviations on seasonal time scales; 2) the observed monthly mean and maximum sea-level deviations for a particular season; and 3) forecast verifications (observed/forecast values). Pacific Island communities are most vulnerable to climate variability and change. Advance information on sea-level variability can contribute significantly to prepare a real-time response plan for the island communities. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | JIMAR, PEAC |
| Contacts | Rashed Chowdhury(rashed@hawaii.edu), Tom Schroeder(tas@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Seeds for Needs |
| Description | Project to pre-select crops and varieties that will likely perform well under future conditions. Pacific participation includes Papua New Guinea. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | None |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Severe Weather Forecasting and Disaster Risk Reduction Demonstration Project (SWFDDP) |
| Description | As Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS) improve, many NMHSs, especially those of developing countries, seek similar benefits to meteorological services. In particular, for the provision of advisories and warnings of severe weather events with increased lead-times, already being realized by other (mainly developed) countries. The Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP) was set up under the WMO Commission of Basic Systems (CBS) to facilitate improved access to, training in the interpretation of, and use of existing NWP/EPS products by forecasters in developing countries. The SWFDDP in the Southwest Pacific contributes directly to day-to-day public weather forecasting and the forecasting of severe and high-impact weather phenomena, over a five day period. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | MetService |
| Contacts | Steve Ready(steve.ready@metservice.com), Pene Lafale(pene.lefale@metservice.com), James Lunny(james.lunny@metservice.com) |
| Name | Simple Well Improvement in Kiribati |
| Description | This project aims to reduce the burden of diarrhea and other water related diseases and problems particularly among very young and old people in Kiribati. This will be achieved by improving over the period of three years, 500 ground water wells that are used by the communities for their drinking and cooking. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Socioeconomic Assessments of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Projects (SEA-PACC) |
| Description | Develop a socioeconomic guide to assist countries in their assessment of vulnerabilities and adaptation options in order to implement adaptation projects related to water resources, coastal management and food security in 13 island countries. Tasks: 1) Develop questions and/or checklists that will help the PACC teams to identify types of socioeconomic information needed to better support adaptation planning and project implementation and prepare for and decide on a site-relevant and practical socioeconomic assessment; 2) Develop simple methodologies and guiding steps for collecting socioeconomic data and developing scenarios related to community vulnerability assessment and resilience analyses; 3) Develop lists of socioeconomic indicators that PACC teams can use to choose specific island-specific indicators; 4) Provide materials for PACC website and CD-ROM for quick use; and 5) Conduct socioeconomic assessment training with each PACC team topic area. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | SPREP, TNC |
| Contacts | Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu), Taito Nakalevu(taiton@sprep.org) |
| Name | Solomon Islands National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) |
| Description | National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change - those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. Proposed projects in the Solomon Islands NAPA are: 1) Managing the Impact of and Enhancing Resilience to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise on Agriculture, Food Security, Water Supply and Sanitation, Human Settlements, Human Health and Education, Awareness and Information; 2) Climate Change Adaptation on Low-lying and Artificially Built Up Islands in Malaita and Temotu Provinces; 3) Waste Management; 4) Coastal Protection; 5) Fisheries and Marine Resources; 6) Infrastructure Development; and 7) Tourism. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | South Pacific Rainfall Atlas (SPRAT) and Southwest Pacific Enhanced Archive of Tropical Cyclones (SPEArTC) |
| Description | The South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is a massive Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation feature that contains one of the earth’s most expansive and persistent convective cloud bands (Vincent, 1993). The SPCZ eventually merges with the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) over the western equatorial Pacific warm pool. It stretches diagonally from northwest to southeast across the southwest Pacific (10°S-160°E 30°S-140°W), and its motions are linked to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, the Walker circulation, and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM). The vast spatial extent of the convection, and the cross equatorial flow induced by the diagonal position of the SPCZ has an important impact on the planetary climate system. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NCDC, NIWA |
| Contacts | Drew Lorrey(a.lorrey@niwa.co.nz), Howard Diamond(howard.diamond@noaa.gov) |
| Name | State of Hawaii Multi-Hazard Mitigation Planning |
| Description | The State of Hawaii (and U.S. Flag Islands) is required by the Stafford Act to develop a hazard mitigation plan with local mitigation plans for each county and the University of Hawaii system. The State plan must be approved in order to receive post-disaster recovery and mitigation funding and must be updated every 3 years. The county/local mitigation plans must be updated every 5 years. The plan includes: 1) a mitigation planning process that articulates agencies, organizations, and communities involved in the plan development and the broader hazards mitigation actions throughout the State; 2) hazards identification and profile; 3) a risk and vulnerability assessment for multiple hazards; 4) identification of ongoing hazard mitigation actions; 5) development of a mitigation strategy and proposed mitigation actions; and 6) a plan for implementing, maintaining, evaluating and updating the plan. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | SCD |
| Contacts | Dawn Johnson(djohnson@scd.hawaii.gov), Cheryl Anderson(canderso@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Streamflow Trends in Hawaii Since 1913 |
| Description | Additional analysis and update of streamflow trends in Hawaii, including change-point analysis. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | PIWSC |
| Contacts | Steve Anthony(santhony@usgs.gov) |
| Name | Strengthening Environmental, Climate Change Information and Monitoring in Kiribati |
| Description | This project aims to strengthen the capability of the government to be able to keep abreast of, understand and interpret international scientific information relevant to Kiribati. To establish a central office to access and share information on climate change issues from reliable regional and international sources. To develop endogenous scientific capability for analyzing and reviewing information, and undertaking research related to climate change. To enhance Kiribati capacity to implement its obligations under climate change international agreements. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Strengthening the Capacity of Pacific Developing Member Countries to Respond to Climate Change (Phase 1) |
| Description | Incorporation of climate risk management, adaptation practices, and greenhouse gas mitigation measures into infrastructure and key sector investment plans and project designs. Adaptation related actions include: 1) Pacific Climate Change Program - Will assist participating countries to improve their resilience to climate change impacts through mainstreaming of the adaptation in their policies, plans programs, and projects and strengthening their systems and capabilities to foster the adaptation process; and 2) Adaptation preparation - Up to five countries will be supported in preparing the implementation of climate change adaptation plans, including further capacity building. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Synergistic Impacts of Global Warming and Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs |
| Description | This project develops equations describing changes in coral growth rates in response to increased temperature and ocean acidification. These data are necessary for developing and refining models evaluating the future impact of climate change on Pacific coral reef communities. Results will help define appropriate management responses and prioritize interventions at the most vulnerable sites. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | HIMB |
| Contacts | Paul Jokiel(jokiel@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Technical Support Project (TSP) for Pacific Islands GUAN |
| Description | The GCOS (Global Climate Observing System) Upper-Air Network (GUAN) consists of stations selected from the Global Observing System of the World Weather Watch. TSP is a joint partnership between MetService and U.S. GCOS established in 2004. The goal of the program is to provide a technical support and program management solution to ensure that upper air programs that are part of the GUAN and operated in the Pacific Island States are effective. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | MetService, NCDC |
| Contacts | Pene Lefale(pene.lefale@metservice.com) |
| Name | The Role of Submarine Groundwater Discharge in Coastal Ocean Acidification |
| Description | Carbonate saturation state of groundwater and a groundwater-fed freshwater plume will be examined in West Hawaii. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NPS, UHH |
| Contacts | Steven Colbert(colberts@hawaii.edu), Tracy Wiegner(wiegner@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Tuvalu National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) |
| Description | National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change - those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. Proposed projects in the Tuvalu NAPA are: 1) Increasing Resilience of Coastal Areas and Community Settlement to Climate Change; 2) Increasing Subsistence of Pit Grown Pulaka Productivity through Introduction of a Salt-tolerant Pulaka Species; 3) Adaptation to Frequent Water Shortages through Increasing Household Water Capacity, Water Collection Accessories, and Water Conservation Techniques; 4) Protecting Community Health through Control of Vector Borne/Climate Sensitive Diseases and Promoting Access to Quality Potable Water; 5) Strengthening of Community Based Conservation Programmes on Highly Vulnerable Near-shore Marine Ecosystems; 6) Strengthening Community Disaster Preparedness and |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands Regional Gap Analysis for Hazard Planning Implementation |
| Description | 1) To develop a multi-dimensional gap analyses to determine how to implement science into the community in order to improve hazard resiliency. 2) To develop an analysis that is flexible and can be used for different regions of the Pacific. 3) To test the analyses for two geographically diverse areas – Kauai, Hawaii and the U.S. Marshall Islands. 4) If successful, apply in later phases to the entire Pacific Region. The project begins with a briefing to the NOAA Regional Collaboration Team for the Pacific Region. Extensive interviews will also be conducted with scientists, planners, community members and leaders. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, UH Sea Grant |
| Contacts | Dennis Hwang(djh@opglaw.com) |
| Name | U.S. Drought Monitoring in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands |
| Description | Rainfall data and local conditions will be supplied through the PEAC Office to the NCDC. This will provide operational drought monitoring in the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands as part of the USDM/NADM activities. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NCDC, NWS, PEAC |
| Contacts | Charlene Felkley(peac@noaa.gov) |
| Name | U.S. National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) |
| Description | The NIDIS Implementation Plan outlines how to: 1) Develop the leadership and networks to implement an integrated drought monitoring and forecasting system at federal, state, and local levels; 2) Foster and support a research environment focusing on risk assessment, forecasting, and management; 3) Create an early warning system for drought to provide accurate, timely, and integrated information; 4) Develop interactive systems, such as the Web Portal, as part of the early warning system; and 5) Provide a framework for public awareness and education about droughts. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NIDIS, NOAA |
| Contacts | Mike Brewer(michael.j.brewer@noaa.gov), Roger Pulwarty(roger.pulwarty@noaa.gov) |
| Name | U.S. Support Program to the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) |
| Description | To improve the management of biologically and economically important coastal and marine resources and associated ecosystems that support livelihoods and economies in the Coral Triangle and assist the six CTI countries in implementing the CTI Regional and National Plans of Action with activities that focus on instituting an ecosystem approach to fisheries management, creating marine protected areas, building climate change adaptive capacity and establishing regional platforms to promote cross-country learning and enhance sustainability. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | NOAA, TNC, Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Understanding Past Rainfall Patterns in Hawaii |
| Description | This project will measure growth rings in mamane trees from the upper slopes of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii, providing critical information on past rainfall and helping validate climate models predicting future rainfall. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | SOEST, Other |
| Contacts | Brian Schubert(bschube@hawaii.edu) |
| Name | Upgrading of Meteorological Service in Kiribati |
| Description | This project aims to improve the reliability and scope of weather observation on outer islands, and reporting to the National Meteorological Services. Institutional strengthening of the National Meteorological Services. To foster greater appreciation and use of various meteorological products that are produced directly or indirectly from outputs of the National Meteorological Services. To increase the National Meteorological Service role in enabling the public and individuals to be able to manage risks from extreme weather events. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Upgrading, Restoring, Enhancing Resilience of Coastal Defenses and Causeways in Kiribati |
| Description | This project aims to prevent encroaching coastal erosion from affecting public infrastructure such as roads, airfields and community public assets by upgrading existing seawalls; to improve accessibility within the atolls which has been facilitated by causeways. Accessibility is, in a few cases, threatened by the inadequacy of causeway designs and/or change in the environment; to minimize potential risks to assets from climate-related disasters. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Vanuatu National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) |
| Description | National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change - those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. Proposed projects in the Vanuatu NAPA are: 1) Agriculture and Food Security; 2) Sustainable Tourism Development; 3) Community Based Marine Resource Management Programs; 4) Sustainable Forestry Management; and 6) Integrated Water Resource Management. |
| Status | proposed |
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| Lead Agencies | Other |
| Contacts | None |
| Name | Vulnerability and Adaptation Initiative |
| Description | Through this initiative, six Pacific countries have implemented activities to reduce their vulnerability to climate change and achieve good environmental outcomes. The initiative has funded activities such as the replanting of coastal mangroves to protect shorelines, the construction of rain water tanks in islands affected by seasonal drought, the trialing of versatile crop varieties and the recording of traditional knowledge about disaster preparation. |
| Status | on-going |
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| Lead Agencies | AUSAID |
| Contacts | None |