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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

Climate

Air and Water

Land and Water

Sacred Sites

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