CERENE June Neighborhood News

It is officially summer! We hope everyone is having a great start to the break and is staying safe and resilient! We've been busy creating and fostering new connections, partnerships, and friendships over these past weeks and we hope that we can continue to nourish these relationships in the years to come! While we are still a relatively new organization, we are continuing to build connections with local community members and make sure that we support the network that allows O'ahu to truly be resilient!

Mahalo nui loa,

Christopher Fujimoto and Dr. Miku Lenentine

CERENE Team members Mo and 'Iwalani take a walk through Wai'anae Coast Comprehensive Health's Food Garden

We wanted to celebrate and congratulate our RCL's that graduated this semester as well as those that completed the RCL award program 2023 either for the first time or as a continuing RCL's. They accomplished so much this semester and we are proud of them all and can't wait to see what they do with us and on their own in the future!

We are wrapping up the Action 15 Workshop Series and we got to close out with the Wai'anae region at Wai'anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center! We had a cost estimate focus group as well and some virtual ones in April that helped close out May. We are now working on a final report that will provide summaries of the workshops conducted so keep an eye out for when that comes out after June!

POD filled with disaster response resources @ Wai'anae Coast CHC and 'elepaio program

Group photo at the end of our HUBs cost estimate focus group

Brainstorm vision board of the ideas and thought processes when discussing sites and possible expenses to retro-fit them to be HUBs

(Share your news and updates with us at cerene15@hawaii.edu so we can share with others)

From the Office Of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resilience (OCCSR)

"June 1st marked the start of the hurricane season (June 1-November 30), a period of traditionally increased tropical storm and hurricane risk. Though the past two hurricane seasons experienced “below average” activity, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is suggesting El Niño conditions may develop as soon as this summer, which can increase tropical storm risk across the Pacific. To learn more about the climate science and preparedness, listen in to yesterday's Bytemarks Café segment featuring the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) and the Resilience Office. It only takes one event or even a glancing storm to cause significant impacts to households, businesses, and City infrastructure and services. It can take weeks, months and even years to fully recover, depending on the event. After Guam was struck by Typhoon Mawar late last month, some areas are still without power, drinking water, internet, and mobile phone service, with services not expected to be fully restored for weeks or more.

With an elevated risk this season, now is the time to create a family plan, build a 14-day disaster supply kit, understand your risk, check insurance, and harden homes. For Oʻahu-specific resources, follow the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management on social media, bookmark their hurricane page, and download the HNL Info app for alerts. Additional state and federal resources are available through the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency, NOAA and Ready.gov. Being prepared before, during, and after a storm helps to keep your ʻohana and property safe and improves our collective community resilience in bouncing forward afterwards."

Part 4 of this webinar series with feature a talk about community resilience in concern to natural disasters and disaster preparedness. Some of the special guest speakers will be coming from the Department of Emergency Management and they will be sharing their expert advice alongside some partners form UH Manoa, KCC, and The Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resilience.

Register through the link here:

You are invited!

Date: Thursday, June 22, 12:00 PM–1:30 PM

Place: Virtual via Zoom, Please register HERE.

Presentation Hosts

University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Team

Wendy Meguro, AIA, Associate Professor, Architecture and Sea Grant

Chip Fletcher, PhD, Interim Dean, SOEST

Josephine Briones, DArch, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Research Specialist,

Architecture

Gerry Failano, MS, Master of Landscape Architecture candidate and Graduate Research Assistant

Eric Teeples, Doctorate of Architecture candidate and Graduate Research Assistant

Georgina Casey, Climate Resilience Specialist, SOEST

Desiree Malabed, Bachelor of Environment Design student, Architecture

Project Background

One approach to manage sea level rise in densely urban Waikīkī is to assume an in-place adaptation strategy, which has yet to be defined. The UH Sea Grant, SOEST, and School of Architecture are working on a research project to create conceptual architectural and urban renderings to visualize preliminary flood adaptation strategies in Waikīkī in order to foster coordinated discussion and contribute to future design guidance, pilot projects, and policies.

Project Website: https://seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu/meguro-adapting-waikiki/

Previous public presentations and reports can be found on the Sea Grant webpage.

We wanted to share the recording from the webinar we hosted along with NDPTC (National Disaster Preparedness Training Center) in which some of our RCL's had a chance to present on the important topic of Resilience HUBs on O'ahu. Feel free to click the link below and check out what our students presented on and their projects pertaining to resilience.

Link to Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU6NBoIwDBQ

NDPTC Website: https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/

Denise and Miku at the Climate Resilience Fair at the Hawai'i State Capital!

Kapi’olani Native Botanical Signage

“Kapi’olani Community College (KapCC) features nine gardens and green spaces landscaped with Native Hawaiian plants. With this, our campus becomes a “living laboratory”, able to provide students with an opportunity to learn about and identify these plants. This helps to strengthen the community’s knowledge and ability to identify plants out on the field or other places, acting as a stepping stone for future conservation efforts.

Being that a whopping 44% of the nation’s threatened plant species can be found in our state, this makes Hawai’i the extinction capital of the world. Due to climate change and introduced species, these native plants risk extinction without scientific and public intervention. Following the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM) campus arboretum and tree identification, our objective with this project is to provide identification and Hawaiian ethnobotanical knowledge of our plants using an online platform. KapCC currently has the only gardens in Hawai’i with an off-site collection of UHM’s arboretum.

Our public resource library is accessible by scanning a QR code located on our signs, or on the KCC STEM website under the “about us” tab. Information available includes: Hawaiian and Latin identification, taxon family, status (endangered, threatened), along with crafting, medicinal or religious uses and their significance. As we continue to add and update information, we hope to be able to provide the community with an easily accessible resource capable of perpetuating both knowledge and culture!”

The team (past/present)

- Emma Ho, project manager - Kaua Kalaiwa’a, website developer - Lei Kalaiwa’a, researcher - Kohlby Soong, researcher & Māla Maunuunu Alaka’i, Keahi Akina, researcher - Jacob Ka’ai, multimedia design

We are students and alumni of Kapi’olani Community college looking to aid the conservation field of Native Hawaiian plants and their ecosystems. This project started in 2020 during the pandemic, and have since produced approximately 101 signs with QR codes for our gardens! Mahalo nui loa

Site:

https://kccstem.com/kapiolanicc-botanical-gardens/

Poster SP 2023 SURF:

https://go.hawaii.edu/XBk

At the Vibrant Hawai'i Resilience Summit this month, a wahine leader had a vision of every island having a summit like theirs and then creating a lei at the end like above. Each HUB is a pua on the lei and we would have eight lei all connected across the islands! Resilience starts from the inside out and our communities across Hawai'i are the start of that resiliency!

Contact Miku Lenentine @ miku4@hawaii.edu if you are interested in attending the Virtual Forum July 19th

The Resilience Corps Leadership Award Program is made possible through funding from our generous donors Hawaiian Electric and State Farm.

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