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Leah Bremer

Blog: Identifying wastewater management tradeoffs: costs, nearshore water quality, and implications for marine coastal ecosystems in Kona, Hawai’i

Blog: Identifying wastewater management tradeoffs: costs, nearshore water quality, and implications for marine coastal ecosystems in Kona, Hawai’i

September 8, 2021

By Christopher A. Wada, Kimberly M. Burnett , Brytne K. Okuhata, Jade M. S. Delevaux, Henrietta Dulai, Aly I. El-Kadi, Veronica Gibson, Celia Smith, Leah…

Producing valuable information from hydrologic models of nature‐based solutions for water

Producing valuable information from hydrologic models of nature‐based solutions for water

August 19, 2021

UHERO’s Leah Bremer and a group of international collaborators shed light on ways that ecosystem service modeling can better support real-world decision making through attention…

Groundwater management for people and ecosystems under a changing climate: Insights from the Puʻuloa aquifer

Groundwater management for people and ecosystems under a changing climate: Insights from the Puʻuloa aquifer

July 26, 2021

By Leah Bremer, Ahmed Elshall, Christopher Wada, Laura Brewington, Jade Delevaux, Aly El-Kadi, Clifford Voss, and Kimberly Burnett Summary:New research from the University of Hawaiʻi…

Priority watershed management areas for groundwater recharge and drinking water protection: a case study from Hawai‘i Island

Priority watershed management areas for groundwater recharge and drinking water protection: a case study from Hawai‘i Island

May 15, 2021

Worldwide, water utilities and other water users increasingly seek to finance watershed protection and restoration in order to maintain or enhance water quality and quantity…

Effects of land cover and watershed protection futures on sustainable groundwater management in a heavily-utilized aquifer in Hawai‘i

Effects of land cover and watershed protection futures on sustainable groundwater management in a heavily-utilized aquifer in Hawai‘i

April 21, 2021

Groundwater sustainability initiatives, including sustainable yield and watershed policy protection policies, are growing globally in response to increasing demand for groundwater, coupled with concerns about…

Linking Land and Water Management to Culturally and Ecologically Important Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

Linking Land and Water Management to Culturally and Ecologically Important Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

March 4, 2021

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) are ecosystems which rely on groundwater. In Kona, Hawaiʻi coastal GDEs include: fish ponds (loko iʻa), anchialine pools, and nearshore ecosystems.…

New UHERO publication on agroforestry restoration in Hawaiʻi

New UHERO publication on agroforestry restoration in Hawaiʻi

February 25, 2021

Congratulations to former UHERO graduate student Angel Melone and team on publication of her article: “Assessing Baseline Carbon Stocks for Forest Transitions: A Case Study…

Good environmental policy requires understanding people

Good environmental policy requires understanding people

October 22, 2020

A forest, coral reef, rangeland or any other ecosystem does not necessarily provide the same benefits to everyone. A healthy forest can link to society…

Publication: Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science

Publication: Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science

October 15, 2020

Congratulations to UHERO’s Leah Bremer on her publication in Nature Sustainability. To calculate the true value of a forest, we need to know how people…