Seven environmental samurai explore the edge of an old lava flow.
Where: Hawai`i Keiki Museum, 74-5533 Luhia St., Building D, Kailua Kona, HI 97640
When: Thursday, January 25, 2024, 5-7 p.m.
Presenter: MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering students
This January in a winter intersession, students from an MIT environmental engineering class are performing research projects on Hawai`i Island, studying factors that affect the health of the ecosystem. The program has been ongoing for several years, with a different group of students each time. One project continues last year's focus on climate change and how it may be having an effect on high-elevation native cloud forests. The other project will develop approaches to identify invasive tree species using computer vision on images collected by UAVs (drones).
This year’s trip is led by Prof. Dave Des Marais, a plant ecologist, and also instructed by Prof. Charlie Harvey, whose research interests are in ground water and carbon sequestration. Both are with MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Agenda
- 5:00 PM - Doors open, networking, light pupus, and refreshments
- 5:30 PM - Presentation and Q&A
- 6:15 PM - Networking
- 7:00 PM - Pau
About the lecture series
This lecture series is a collaboration of Kona Science Café and the Hawai`i Keiki Museum, with the goal of fostering interests in science and education. There is networking time before and after the presentation to build the science community. It is free and open to the public.