{"id":54695,"date":"2017-01-05T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=54695"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T23:26:48","slug":"uh-faculty-featured-in-presidents-speaker-series-at-maui-and-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/05\/uh-faculty-featured-in-presidents-speaker-series-at-maui-and-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> faculty featured in President\u2019s speaker series at Maui and Hawai\u02bbi"},"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\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/foundation-presidents-series-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/foundation-presidents-series-poster.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/foundation-presidents-series-poster-260x112.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">东精影业<\/a> invites the community to an series of talks featuring outstanding faculty. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-maui-tickets-30173427534\">The President&#8217;s Series will take place at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College<\/a>&#8217;s <span aria-label=\"Ike Lea\">&#699;Ike Le&#699;a<\/span> (Room 144) and at <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/palamanui\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College&#8211;P&#257;lamanui<\/a> outdoor theatre.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54711\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-fletcher-chip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54711\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chip Fletcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Chip Fletcher<\/h2>\n<p>Will your property be beachfront in the future?<br \/>\nA discussion of climate impacts in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College: Monday, January 9<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n6:30 p.m.&#8211;7:30 p.m.&#8212;Opening reception<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-maui-tickets-30173427534\" >Tickets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"community college\">CC<\/abbr>&#8211;P&#257;lamanui: Wednesday, January 11<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n6:30 p.m.&#8211;7:30 p.m.&#8212;Opening reception<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-hawaii-island-tickets-30173739467\"><abbr title=\"please make reservations\">RSVP<\/abbr> by January 5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earth&#8217;s climate is rapidly changing. Climate change is causing dangerous weather conditions such as heat waves and extreme precipitation, sea level rise, stronger storms and ocean warming and acidification. These and other effects create damaging conditions for ecosystems and human communities. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is experiencing all these effects but climate is variable, making prediction difficult. It is especially important that <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> communities increase their resilience in the face of these challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/GG\/people\/gg_profile_fletcher_c.html\"><strong>Chip Fletcher<\/strong><\/a> is the associate dean for academic affairs and professor of geology and geophysics at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/\">School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a>. His research focuses on observing and modeling coastal system evolution under past, present and future sea level change. He was recognized in 2011 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Achievement Award in Climate Change Science.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54712\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-holcombe-randy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54712\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall F. Holcombe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Randall Holcombe<\/h2>\n<p>Improving Cancer Care in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><br \/>\nSolutions through healthcare delivery science<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College: Thursday, February 16<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-maui-tickets-30173427534\">Tickets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The delivery of healthcare services is the most visible part of any healthcare system, both to users and the general public and can be studied and evaluated. This new field is surfacing innovations aimed at improving the quality, safety and value of healthcare. Some of these can improve healthcare delivery in Hawai&#699;i.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhcancercenter.org\/about-us\/leadership\"><strong>Randall F. Holcombe<\/strong><\/a> is director of the National Cancer Institute&#8212;designated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhcancercenter.org\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Caner Center<\/a>. Holcombe&#8217;s research activities are focused on healthcare delivery science, including the development of patient-focused care paradigms for cancer, development of instruments to effectively measure care coordination and other patient-reported outcomes and research targeted at eliminating health disparities in cancer-related treatment outcomes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54714\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-ruth-gates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54714\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Gates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Ruth Gates<\/h2>\n<p>Hope for Coral Reefs?<br \/>\nHarnessing Basic Science to Build Resilience<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr title=\"community college\">CC<\/abbr>&#8211;P&#257;lamanui: Wednesday, March 15<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-hawaii-island-tickets-30173739467\" ><abbr>RSVP<\/abbr> by March 9<\/a><\/li>\n<li><abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College: Thursday, March 16<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-maui-tickets-30173427534\">Tickets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coral reefs in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and across the globe continue to decline in health due to intensifying climate change, resource extraction and pollution. Although the future looks bleak, certain corals and reefs are not only surviving, but also thriving in conditions that kill others. Gates&#8217; lecture will unveil the complex biology that underpins this natural variation in response and how this knowledge can be harnessed to develop tools that build resilience on reefs, arresting declines and improving the prognosis for coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soest.hawaii.edu\/soestwp\/about\/directory\/ruth-d-gates\/\"><strong>Ruth Gates<\/strong><\/a> is the director of, and researcher at, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.himb.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology<\/a>. She is globally recognized for her creative and cutting edge research and for advancing strategies to stabilize coral reefs in the face of climate change. Gates is the elected president of the International Society for Reef Studies and a passionate advocate for coral reefs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54715\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-Puakea-Nogelmeier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54715\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puakea Nogelmeier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Puakea Nogelmeier<\/h2>\n<p>The Legacy of Hawaiian Literacy &#8211; Today?<br \/>\nIlluminating Hawaiian Knowledge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8211;P&#257;lamanui: Monday, February 6<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-hawaii-island-tickets-30173739467\"><abbr>RSVP<\/abbr> by January 31<\/a><\/li>\n<li><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Maui College: Thursday, April 6<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-maui-tickets-30173427534\">Tickets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The repository of Hawaiian writings, published and unpublished, are more extensive than we ever imagined but only a small percentage have been translated and studied. The training of translators and editors to develop historical resources for modern audiences can illuminate Hawaiian knowledge, historical literacy, agency and world views. Rearticulating historical knowledge in the present highlights and empowers continuity and can inform directions of change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/hshk\/people\/marvin-puakea-nogelmeier\/\"><strong>Puakea Nogelmeier<\/strong><\/a> is a professor of Hawaiian language at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa, the founder and executive director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awaiaulu.org\/main\/index.php\">Awaiaulu<\/a>, a nonprofit translation training entity and is also the director of <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ihlrt.seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute of Hawaiian Language Research and Translation<\/a>. Nogelmeier mentors and trains translators and works extensively with the many Hawaiian-language archives, rearticulating historical Hawaiian knowledge into fields of study today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54758\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/manoa-binsted-kim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54758\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Binsted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Kim Binsted<\/h2>\n<p>What will it be like to live on Mars?<br \/>\nPlanning for human exploration of space<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8211;P&#257;lamanui: Wednesday, April 5<br \/>\n5 p.m.&#8211;6:30 p.m.&#8212;Presentation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-presidents-series-hawaii-island-tickets-30173739467\" ><abbr>RSVP<\/abbr> by March 30<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) is an analog habitat for human spaceflight to Mars. <abbr>HI-SEAS<\/abbr> is located in an isolated position on the slopes of the Mauna Loa volcano on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island, a location chosen for its Mars-like features and an elevation of approximately 8,200 feet above sea level. The fourth phase of this project began in August of 2015 and lasted for one year. Learn what was discovered about what humans will need to stay happy and healthy during an extended mission to Mars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Binsted<\/strong> is a professor in the information and computer sciences department at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa. She is the principal investigator for the <abbr title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/abbr>-funded <abbr title=\"Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation\">HI-SEAS<\/abbr> program. Binsted&#8217;s other research interests include artificial intelligence and human-computer interfaces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip Fletcher, Randy Holcombe, Ruth Gates, Puakea Nogelmeier and Kim Binsted discusses the exciting research and happenings at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,53,551,442,484,435,92,174,169,71,319,9,60],"class_list":["post-54695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaii-institute-of-marine-biology","tag-hawaiinuiakea-school-of-hawaiian-knowledge","tag-hi-seas","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-palamanui","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-space","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695","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=54695"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91563,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54695\/revisions\/91563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}