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Waipiʻo Valley Research Publications
The Waipio Valley Education Center (WVEC) shares research results through a variety of media including summarizing projects in a one-page format, linking to websites by scientists conducting research in the Valleys of Hawaiʻi, holding research conferences, arranging illustrated talks by Valley researchers, and writing articles for internal and external audiences.
Information about the WVEC
Geology
History and Social Science
Plants
Wildlife
Information About the WVEC
Pathways to Waipiʻo:
Kupuna Aina Internship Program
Research Conference Abstracts (2013)
Overview of the WVEC
Research in Waipiʻo
Funding the Adaptive Reuse of Waipiʻo Valley
Historic Preservation in Waipiʻo:
Restoring the “Valley of the Kings”
Climate
Flood History and Climate Change
Climate Change and Prehistoric Human Migration
Climate Change in the “Valley of the Kings”: Preservation in the Face of Uncertainty.
Climate Final Report: An Integrated Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on the “Valley of the Kings”and its Gateway Community: Interactions of Multiple Stressors.
CIRMOUNT Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Hawaiian Valleyʻs.
The “Valley of the Kings” Response to Climate Change.
Subalpine Forest Floods and Climatic Variatio
Temperature Trends.
Air and Water
Effects of the Wailoa River on Riparian Areas in Waipiʻo Valley.
Nitrogen Deposition Correlated with Changes in Water Organisms.
Plant Response to Ozone.
Trees Respond to Nitrogen Deposition.
Unusual Dark Soil Layers at Waipiʻo Valley.
Water Blitz.
Wind Research.
Land and Water
Loʻi
Muliʻwai
Auʻwai
Water Heads
Dams
Culverts
Water rites of way
Land Research
Water Research
Sacred Sites
Burial Sites
Hey
Trails
Churches
Schools
Iʻa Ponds
Lua Pa
Geology
Waipiʻo Valley Geologic Resource Evaluation Report.
A summary of the “Valley of the Kings” geologic setting and issues prepared by the WVEC's Geologic Resources Division.
Cleaning Up Waipiʻo Valley.
The Formation of the Waipiʻo Valley Education Center.
History and Social Science
Stone Artifacts and Prehistoric Human Migration.
Old Voices and Sacred Site.
Backcountry Users: Who? Why? What?
Climbing the Waimanu Ala Nui.
Historic Heiau sites.
Historic Trails.
Marketing the Valleys: An Environmental History of Tourism.
Prehistoric Human Migration.
The Skyline of the Valley: The Design of Trail Ridge.
Social Conservation in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
A Vast Moving Sacred Keepers: Roads and Tourist.
Factors Affecting the Wilderness Experience.
Plants
Age Distribution of Waipiʻo.
Effects of Loʻi on Waipiʻo Growth.
Pako in Montane Plant Communities.
Browsing, Flood and Montane Shrublands.
Effects of Loʻi on Riparian Areas.
Effects of Iʻa Pa.
Evaluation of Revegetation.
Flood Frequency and Intensity in Waipiʻo Valley.
Insect Control of the Invasive Coqui.
Restoring Kalo-Invaded Sites.
Slime Molds.
Studying the Iʻa “Fish” of Waipiʻo.
Subalpine Valley Flood Regimes.
Wildlife
Mano Relationships
Pueo and Iʻo Sites
Mano Nutrition
Iʻa Population and Stability
Opihi Population Genetics
Opihi Population
Iʻa vs. Traffic
Aumakua of the Animal World
Iʻa Translocation Success
Wildlife
Mano Relationships
Distribution and Habitat Use of Puaʻ
Horse Exclusion Fence
Aumakua Body Condition
Fish Effects on Waipiʻo Valley
Puaʻa Distribution and Population
Puaʻa Summer Diet
Iʻa In Peril at Waipiʻo Valley
Iʻa in Peril at Waimanu Valley