H108
Tropical Mountains and Islands: Connections Across Scales, Gradients, and Boundaries

Session ID#: 161961

Session Description:
Tropical mountains and islands face unique challenges with climate change and land use/land cover change. While isolation and environmental gradients impede the movement of species, resources, and humans, many processes extend beyond these boundaries. Solving local-scale issues often require large-scale understanding and vice versa. While consideration of heterogeneity, connectivity, and interactions between the physical environment, organisms, and humans is necessary to understand and manage these systems, sharp gradients also provide unique opportunities for comparative studies.

This session aims to promote comparisons across sites and scales and encourage future collaborations. We welcome abstracts from all fields on topics related to hydrological processes and freshwater resources in tropical mountain and island settings. Examples include challenges of monitoring and studies of climate change and ecosystem change impacts on ecohydrological processes, studies of, or that take advantage of environmental gradients, natural cloud water interception and fog harvesting, extreme events, and watershed restoration.

Index Terms:

1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Han Tseng, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
Convener:  Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Han Tseng, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
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Hydrological characteristics of a tropical montane cloud forest in a summit bog in Hawaii (1070029)
Han Tseng1, David W Beilman2, John K DeLay3 and Thomas W Giambelluca1, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geography and Environment, Honolulu, United States, (3)University of Hawaii - Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
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Naomie Kayitesi M and Gregoire Mariethoz, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST), Faculty of Geosciences and Environment (FGSE), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
 
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Thomas W Giambelluca1, Alison D Nugent2, Yinphan Tsang3, Abby G Frazier4, David W Beilman5, Han Tseng1, Christopher k Shuler6, Cory Yap6 and Dylan Giardina6, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States, (3)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, United States, (4)Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, United States, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geography and Environment, Honolulu, United States, (6)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, United States
 
Establishment of Climate Divisions for the State of Hawai‘i (1128025)
Abby G Frazier, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, Xiao Luo, University of Hawaii at Manoa, International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), Honolulu, United States, Henry F Diaz, University of Hawaii, Maui, HI, United States and Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
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Measuring Fog Frequency With Elevation On Mt. Kaala Using Trail Cameras: Initial Findings (1195805)
John K DeLay1, Joel Nicolow2, Peter Sadowski2, Han Tseng2 and Thomas W Giambelluca3, (1)Honolulu Community College, Geography and Environment, Honolulu, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
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