Conference Program 2009 Online Program Schedule and Abstracts Detailed schedule with symposia, forums, workshops and abstracts. Program Book PDF Abstract Book PDF Speaker Presentations Index of PowerPoint Presentations Link to 2009 HCC on Blip.Tv (subscribe to Podcasts on iTunes)     PLENARY SESSION SPEAKERS TUESDAY, JULY 28 9:00 AM Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen H. Schneider Stanford University; distinguished member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who with four generations of IPCC authors received a collective Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Climate Change in Hawai‘i: Threats and Opportunities   Dr. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biology, Professor (by courtesy) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Dr. Schneider received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1971. He studied the role of greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on climate as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1972 and was a member of the scientific staff of NCAR from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project.    Internationally recognized for research, policy analysis and outreach in climate change, Dr. Schneider focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted with federal agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton and G.W. Bush administrations.   Actively involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization since its origin in 1988 and a contributor to all four IPCC Assessment Reports, Dr. Schneider was Coordinating Lead Author, WG II, Chapter 19, "Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change" for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and a core writer for the AR4 Synthesis Report. This most recent assessment is being used by governments world-wide as the most up-to-date, credible document regarding climate change science, impacts, adaptation, vulnerability, and mitigation until 2012. Dr. Schneider along with four generations of IPCC authors received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007. Continue reading full bio   Dr. Schneider's Web page 10:20 AM Dr. Pualani Kanakaole Kanahele An internationally renowned cultural practitioner, scholar, teacher, and community leader   Lonoikamakahiki-The Cycles of Winter   Of pure Hawaiian descent, Dr. Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele is a renowned kumu hula in the Ahiena matrilineal line of hula masters and a pioneer in the resurgence of Hawaiian practices and pedagogy. Ancestral responsibility and keen awareness of the natural environment ground her scholarly work on traditional knowledge systems and her roles as kumu hula of Hālau o Kekuhi, director of Hawaiian Traditional Knowledge Research at Hawai‘i Community College and president of the Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation.   Her contributions to Hawai‘i and the world have been recognized with the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Governors Association Award for Distinguished Community Leader, the Order of Ke Ali‘i Pauahi, and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Hawai‘i.   Pua’s current projects include the reestablishment of a Hawaiian system of knowledge organization, a Mokumanamana study of the winter sun, the 2009 Native Voices Conference, and Kūmokuhali‘i, a Hawaiian perspective of the forest. Pua recently completed the Cultural Plan for Kaho‘olawe. PLENARY SESSION SPEAKERS WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 8:05 AM Jerry M. Mitchell Chief of Biological Resource Management for the National Park Service. He is located in Fort Collins, Colorado within the Natural Resource Program Center, part of the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate for the National Park Service.   Jerry began his tenure with the Biological Resource Management Division in October 2006, and leads an office of biologists that provide scientific and technical assistance and policy guidance needed to address the range of biological issues facing the National Park Service. He has been with the NPS for 30 years, and has worked at Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Zion National Parks, and on some of the bureau’s most visible resource management issues. He served as NPS Project Manager in Phase II of the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies, the interagency research program focused on operations of Glen Canyon Dam and their effects on downstream resources in Grand Canyon National Park. After the Yosemite flood of 1997, he moved to the Superintendent’s office to provide leadership in achieving the restoration goals of the General Management Plan. He partnered with the University of California and its newest campus—UC Merced—in creating the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He was a Fellow with the National Park Foundation in Washington, D.C. He holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in wildlife biology.    8:40 AM Dr. Paul Jokiel University of Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Future Climate Change and the Hawaiian Marine Environment: Causes, Consequences, and Mitigation   Paul Jokiel has been working as a full time researcher on coral reefs at HIMB since 1969. His first research area at the University of Hawai‘i was on the impact of temperature on reef corals. He has been part of the ongoing concern over global climate change from the beginning and thus has a unique historical perspective. His published papers predicted and reported on the first bleaching events in Hawai‘i resulting from global warming. Recently he collaborated on experiments that describe the impact of ocean acidification on Hawai‘i coral reefs with four recent papers on that topic. He has published in a wide range of areas related to coral reef ecology. He was the first to demonstrate the importance of UV radiation on coral reefs. He showed that corals used night irradiance to synchronize spawning. He published significant papers in biogeography (Vortex Model), dispersal of corals and other organisms by rafting, and did pioneering work in the area of comparative immunology of corals and sponges with the late Bill Hildemann of the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also been concerned with factors that control the distributions of corals such as water motion, sedimentation, nutrients and lowered salinity. Some of his recent work is directed at the problem of mitigation of damage to reefs and their restoration. In 1998 he initiated the statewide Hawai‘i Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, which also included a significant component on mapping of Hawaiian coral reefs. His current activity includes work on climate change, extension of his ecological studies into the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Work that was recently completed includes collaborative studies with the U.S. Geological Service on impact of sedimentation on the reefs of south Moloka‘i and completion of mapping Hawaiian coral reef habitats in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.   9:20 AM Kaiwi Nui Office of Hawaiian Affairs HCA Presentation on Climate Change, A Cultural Perspective   Kaiwi Nui is the Coordinator for the Halawa Luluku Interpretive Development Project, a cultural mitigation team under the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. He is an active member in the Native Hawaiian community and serves as a Commissioner on the State Legacy Lands Conservation Commission. Kaiwi is studied and has experience in both architecture and Native Hawaiian land use management and practice. He is founder of the Kukulu Kane Program, which is a program designed for the State Correctional System to teach cultural land management and stewardship to in-transition and incarcerated men.  PLENARY SESSION SPEAKERS THURSDAY, JULY 30 8:20 AM Ben Namakin Pacific Islands Climate Revolution   Youth Advocating on Climate Change Ben Namakin is co-founder of the Pacific Islands Climate Revolution (PICRe), an organizations dedicated to recognizing youth as being under-represented in climate change dialogues, negotiations, and decision-making. He was born in 1980 and grew up on islands in the Pacific, living first in Kiribati and then moving in 1996 with his family to Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Mr. Namakin attended Ponape Agriculture & Trade School, the only vocational high school in Micronesia, and graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture and Marine Science in 2001.   In 2002, Mr. Namakin began working for the Conservation Society of Pohnpei as Manager of the organization’s Environmental Education & Awareness Program. He also ran the "Green Road" program that educates students about watersheds, marine conservation, marine pollution, coral reefs, and land-sea connections. As a member of the youth delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Mr. Namakin addressed the plenary session and contributed to the declaration "Our Climate, Our Challenge, Our Future." He also spoke for the Many Strong Voices at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. Mr. Namakin is the founding chair of the International Pacific Marine. Educators Network (IPMEN), a World Wildlife Fund Climate Witness, steering committee co-chair for the Pacific Region and Global Youth, and also serves on the International Steering Committee for a Global Summit of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change.