UHERO Researchers
Land and ocean management in Hawaiʻi are intricately connected through flows of ground and surface water. UHERO has worked collaboratively with interdisciplinary researchers and community and agency partners to better incorporate the health of springs, coral reefs, and groundwater dependent ecosystems (e.g. nearshore ecosystems and limu; fish ponds) into land and water management. This includes modeling the impacts of potential wastewater management, forest protection, and climate change scenarios and linked groundwater quality and marine habitat and evaluating how to optimally conserve native forest to protect nearshore water quality (see a description of this collaborative project and partners here).