{"id":164785,"date":"2022-09-07T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T23:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=164785"},"modified":"2022-09-07T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T23:19:21","slug":"hawaii-island-climate-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/07\/hawaii-island-climate-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Valuable data tool designed for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Island farmers"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_164793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164793\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/manoa-soest-agroforestry.jpg\" alt=\"breadfruit on tree\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/manoa-soest-agroforestry.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/manoa-soest-agroforestry-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/manoa-soest-agroforestry-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breadfruit. (Photo credit: Studio Kealaula via Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island farmers will be able to find critical data at their fingertips to help them manage their crops and improve yield because of a project involving the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a>, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (<abbr>NOAA<\/abbr>), National Marine Sanctuaries Foundation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastwestcenter.org\/\">East-West Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new climate dashboard will display weather, climate predictions and environmental conditions relevant to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island farmers. The pilot project will co-produce a poly-forestry climate dashboard in partnership with the Keaukaha <span aria-label=\"Panaewa\">Pana&#699;ewa<\/span> Farmers Association on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island.<\/p>\n<p>Poly-forestry (&ldquo;poly&rdquo; to mean both &ldquo;many&rdquo; as well as &ldquo;Polynesian&rdquo;) is a traditional Pacific Island system for managing land use that aims to increase the overall yield of the land by combining the productions of crops (including tree crops) and forest plants and\/or animals on a given unit of land. The pilot will apply management practices that are culturally compatible with the local population.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will blend traditional knowledge associated with agroforestry and planting with western science, utilizing <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> data and climate expertise in order to create a data set for the <span aria-label=\"Panaewa\">Pana&#699;ewa<\/span> Hawaiian Homestead community. Project objectives include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-produce an agricultural\/climate dashboard for the Keaukaha &#8211; <span aria-label=\"Panaewa\">Pana&#699;ewa<\/span> area based on the climate prediction for the year;<\/li>\n<li>Design and create an agroforestry system that is resilient and responsive to the climate and environmental conditions in <span aria-label=\"Panaewa\">Pana&#699;ewa;<\/span> and<\/li>\n<li>Foster community resilience and food security through agricultural training, education and volunteer opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This effort relies on <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr>\u2019s vast array of climate-related data, products and services as well as technical and data visualization expertise at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa, including that of <strong>Jim Potemra<\/strong>, a specialist in the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/\">School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> (<abbr>SOEST<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Potemra and John Marra, <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> Regional Climate Services Director of the Pacific Region, previously developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu\/Hawaii_USAPI_Climate_Summary\/dashboard\/\">climate dashboard for the Pacific<\/a> to aggregate climate data and information. Later, they connected with a group at <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo<\/a> to develop an <a href=\"http:\/\/lawelawe.pacioos.hawaii.edu\/pacific-rcc\/Marshalls%20Agroforestry\/site\/index.php\">agroforestry site for the Republic of the Marshall Islands<\/a> where seasonal predictions are displayed to help local planting cycles.<\/p>\n<p>This project is being developed in response to feedback received during a 2021 climate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/regional-collaboration-network\/noaas-climate-and-equity-roundtables\">equity talk story<\/a> about Equitable Resilience in Light of a Climate Emergency. The dialogues provided <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> with place-based perspectives and an understanding of what measures need to be taken to ensure that appropriate data and observations are generated, transformed to actionable knowledge, and transmitted in a way that builds the capacity of <span aria-label=\"Hawaiibased\">Â鶹´«Ã½-based<\/span> agencies, organizations and communities to understand and use climate-related data.<\/p>\n<p>Additional collaborators on this project include Ryan Longman, research fellow at the East-West Center; <abbr>SOEST<\/abbr> graduate student <strong>Cherryle Heu<\/strong> and coordinator for the <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> Pacific Islands Region Collaboration Team Pua Kamaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> collaboration will create a new climate dashboard, displaying weather, climate predictions and environmental conditions relevant to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[222,10,1467,1363,1314,92,73,14,9],"class_list":["post-164785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-agriculture","tag-east-west-center","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164785","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=164785"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164803,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164785\/revisions\/164803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}