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UH Extraordinary Lecture Series
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Date: Wednesday - 7/27/2016
Time: See notes to dates and times
Location:
UH Manoa Art Auditorium
2535 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, Hawaii, 96816
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Cost: Free!

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Outreach College • Summer Sessions

Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture Series

UH Mānoa Architecture Auditorium • 6:30--8:00 pm • Free and Open to the Public

In advance of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) World Conservation Congress Hawaiʻi 2016 in September, the 2016 Sakamaki Extraordinary Lectures provide venues for learning and stimulate interest in the IUCNʻs goal of conserving the environment and harnessing the solutions nature offers to global challenges (iucnworldconservationcongress.org).

Wednesday • July 13

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Built Environment

with Wendy Meguro and Lauren Carter-Roth Venu

Thoughtful design of buildings and landscapes can dramatically impact how we consume fossil fuel energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as reduce potable water consumption, which is becoming increasingly limited in quality and quantity. We will discuss our personal experiences designing exemplary buildings as well as landscapes that serve as water infrastructure systems showcasing ecosystem services and triple bottom line benefits. In addition, we will explore adaptive measures of 21st design for buildings and their sites to manage the effects of climate change including both sea level rise and changes in weather patterns.

Wendy Meguro, LEED AP BD+C, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Building & Community Design, UH Mānoa School of Architecture and UH Sea Grant College Program

Professor Meguro's research, teaching, and outreach are motivated by the desire to make Hawaiʻi's coastal communities exemplars in energy and water efficiency, resiliency, economic success, and social well-being. Her focus is on high-performance building design and policy, including enabling coastal communities to adapt to sea level rise. Prior to joining UH, Wendy was an associate at Atelier Ten in New York City, consulting on areas including energy efficiency, water conservation, visual and thermal comfort, material selection, greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and LEED certification.

Lauren Carter-Roth Venu, Founding Principal and President, Roth Ecological Design Int. LLC

As President of Roth Ecological Design Int. LLC, a planning and design firm that provides integrative water resource management and green infrastructure, Lauren Roth Venu is passionate about developing strategic, innovative solutions to build water resiliency. She holds a degree in the water sciences and policy from the University of Colorado Boulder and an MSc in oceanography from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She serves on numerous professional committees developing and supporting sustainable water policies for the state of Hawaiʻi. She was named top Forty Under Forty Business Leaders by Pacific Business News.

Wednesday • July 20

Protecting Hawaiʻi's Native Plants:Seeing the Forest and the Trees

with Suzanne D. Case and Maggie Sporck-Koehler

Discussion of landscape scale forest conservation (intact native forests, watershed partnerships, invasive species) and the protection and restoring of endangered plants in situ.

Suzanne D. Case, Chair, Department of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaiʻi

Suzanne Case was born in Hilo and grew up in Hilo and Honolulu. She attended Williams College and Stanford University, and received her law degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California, San Francisco. Prior to her appointment as Chair of DLNR in 2015, Case was a 28-year veteran of The Nature Conservancy, serving as the Hawaiʻi Program's Executive Director from 2001-2015. She oversaw the acquisition of the 116,000-acre Kahuku Ranch addition to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, eight Hawaiʻi Nature Conservancy preserves, Palmyra Atoll, new National Wildlife Refuges at Hakalau on the slopes of Mauna Kea and at Oʻahu Forest, and assisted with the formation of watershed partnerships for forested management throughout Hawaiʻi, the growth of networks of local communities working to restore their near-shore marine resources, and implementation of large-scale projects to remove invasive algae from Hawaiʻi's reefs and coastal areas.

Maggie Sporck-Koehler, State Botanist

Maggie Sporck-Koehler is the State Botanist for the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, and an affiliated researcher with the University of Hawaiʻi's Botany Department. In her position with the State she focuses on working toward rare plant conservation across the Hawaiian Islands. Her botanical interests are broad, spanning topics including: plant conservation and rare plants; anatomy and physiology; whole plant function; and plant taxonomy. She holds a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Hawaiʻi and has worked for the State of Hawaiʻi for the past four years.

Wednesday • July 27

Hawaiʻi's Environmental Court: A Global Judicial Model Arises from Earth's Ideal Environment

with Justice Michael Wilson

Associate Justice Michael Wilson was appointed to the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court on April 17, 2014, after serving as a judge of the Circuit Court of the First Circuit since May 10, 2000. Prior to his appointment as a Circuit Court judge, Justice Wilson was the director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Chair of the State Water Commission and a Trustee of the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission. He was awarded a lifetime membership in the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife agencies in 1999. Previously, he was a partner in the law firms of Pavey Wilson & Glickstein and Hart Wolff & Wilson. He was raised in Kailua and graduated from Kailua High School.

Wednesday • August 3

Ocean as Heritage: Hawaiʻi's Opportunity to Shape Global Ocean Solutions

with ʻAulani Wilhelm Senior Vice-President, Center for Oceans at Conservation International

When Papahānaumokuakea was inscribed by UNESCO as the world's first mixed natural and cultural marine World Heritage Site, it was also the first of its kind to honor indigenous relationships to the sea and the importance of global ocean heritage. Despite the ocean comprising over two-thirds of the surface of the globe, marine protected areas are often overlooked and undervalued for their tangible and intangible cultural heritage and their role in maintaining both natural and cultural diversity on the planet. Hawaiʻi sits in a unique place between the developed and developing worlds, with communities who are still deeply linked to the sea. Will Hawaiʻi seize the opportunity to be a global leader while also working to solve our own significant challenges?

ʻAulani Wilhelm has spent 20 years in natural resource management, primarily ocean conservation, and led the designation of what has become the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and World Heritage site, one of the largest protected areas on Earth and first of its kind to honor indigenous relationships to the sea and the importance of global ocean heritage. Wilhelm is currentlySenior Vice President, Center for Oceans for Conservation International. Shefounded Big Ocean, a global network of marine protected areas spanning over 8 million km² of ocean; is Chair of the IUCN-WCPA Large-Scale Marine Protected Area Task Force; and served as an advisor to UNESCOʻs Marine World Heritage Programme. Prior to joining Conservation International she served asDirector of Ocean Initiatives for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

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