{"id":50253,"date":"2016-09-19T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T00:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=50253"},"modified":"2020-01-09T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:18:45","slug":"uh-and-tohoku-university-collaborate-for-disaster-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/09\/19\/uh-and-tohoku-university-collaborate-for-disaster-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹´«Ã½and Tohoku University collaborate for disaster sciences"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e9Nea21SqME?showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A partnership between the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tohoku.ac.jp\/en\/\">Tohoku University<\/a>, one of Japan&#8217;s top research universities is redefining disaster science. The collaboration began shortly after the March 2011 disaster events that struck Japan, including the powerful earthquake that triggered a devastating tsunami. The <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/\">School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Sea Grant <\/a>program have been working with Tohoku ever since.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This research collaboration has been amazing,&rdquo; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/about\/about-the-dean.html\"><strong>Denise Eby Konan<\/strong><\/a>, dean of the College of Social Sciences. &ldquo;We&#8217;ve been able to take the science but also the human aspect of disasters, elevate our understanding of that to new and higher levels.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The partnership that we&#8217;ve with the College of Social Sciences and now, of course, with Tohoku University is a really great example of the need to bring together the physical, natural and social sciences to solve these problems,&rdquo; said <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/darren-lerner-phd\"><strong>Darren Lerner<\/strong><\/a>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Sea Grant director.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This multidisciplinary approach is very important,&rdquo; said Tohoku University&#8217;s Yuichi Ono. &ldquo;We are very good at our physical sciences and we try to increase our social science perspectives but we are still developing. And <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, has very good social scientists there so we want to collaborate to fill in the gap and work together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50247\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/manoa-social-science-tohoku-260x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"148\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/manoa-social-science-tohoku-260x148.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/manoa-social-science-tohoku.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former students of Sendai Ikuei Gakuen High School express gratitude to their host families in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for taking them in after the 2011 tsunami impacted their hometown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> and Tohoku share the latest disaster science and bring leading national and international experts together. A September 2016 forum on the M&#257;noa campus focused on communicating disaster science and covered the latest research, risk reduction, community preparedness&#8212;including changes in the way <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> prepares for natural disasters&#8212;and the human dimension in responding and recovering.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is no single discipline that can really solve these very difficult problems that we face,&rdquo; said Lerner. &ldquo;This bridging between our university here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and universities across Japan is really key if we are going to solve these problems across the Pacific and between our nations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The partnership also includes student exchanges between <abbr>UH<\/abbr> and Tohoku University.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Those kind of exchanges between our students and the students of Japan really are part of what it means to be a global university,&rdquo; said Konan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa and Tohoku University examine the science and human aspects of disasters in order to develop better response methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":50275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[301,1409,92,9,438],"class_list":["post-50253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-sea-grant","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/manoa-tohoku-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253","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=50253"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81370,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions\/81370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}