{"id":16166,"date":"2013-04-22T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=16166"},"modified":"2020-10-30T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T01:57:44","slug":"website-speaks-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/22\/website-speaks-for-the-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Website speaks for the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1MXWC4MMfUI\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons the campus of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa is such a scenic place is because it&#8217;s home to more than 3,000 trees, representing more than 475 different species. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&#8217;s crazy,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa student <strong>Chari Rabino<\/strong> with a laugh. &ldquo;I didn&#8217;t notice it at first.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s really incredible,&rdquo; agreed fellow student <strong>Jacob Iverson<\/strong>. &ldquo;Just walking by, you don&#8217;t really think about that. It is very impressive.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are trees on this campus that are on no other campus in the U.S.,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa graduate student <strong>Austin Stankus<\/strong>, who works in the university&#8217;s landscaping department. &ldquo;We have a very diverse collection and some trees you can&#8217;t see anywhere else.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa received a Tree Campus USA recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation, given to select colleges and universities for promoting healthy trees. In that spirit of conservation, Stankus and fellow student <strong>Nate Ortiz<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/landscaping\/\">created a website<\/a> that maps, and provides basic information, on just about every tree on campus. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The landscaping department has been using this app, this desktop application for quite a while, using it to manage the tree,&rdquo; said Stankus. &ldquo;But we realized that this information was so interesting that we want to share it with everybody.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Website users can click on the tree they&#8217;re interested in and a window comes up with the tree&#8217;s scientific, English and Hawaiian names; a brief description; and information like if it is native, poisonous and endangered. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the more interesting trees on campus include the Sausage tree, Cannon Ball tree and the Dead Rat tree. The Dead Rat tree got its name because it looks like dead rats are hanging from the branches by their tails. Most trees blend into the landscape, but still make a significant contribution to campus life, like monkey pod trees. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&#8217;re also called rain trees because they give you some shelter from the rain and also from the sun,&rdquo; said Stankus. <\/p>\n<p>The campus also has about two-dozen memorial trees, planted in honor of important historical figures like civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. To get to the tree mapping website, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/landscaping\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa landscaping department website<\/a> and click on the mapping portal. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every student has a favorite tree or a favorite place on campus that they would want to know just a little bit more and hopefully this would provide that for them,&rdquo; said Stankus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa students create a website that provides basic information for almost every tree on campus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[73,9,56],"class_list":["post-16166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16166"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129805,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions\/129805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}