BIOS helps advance resilience partnerships for small islands Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are on the front lines of the climate crisis, facing overlapping threats that jeopardize lives, livelihoods, and sovereignty. Nearly 74 million people live in SIDS,… Read More
Consensus, Urgency, and the Cost Question: What Hawaiʻi Residents Think About Sea Level Rise By Colin Moore, Ketty Loeb, Victoria Keener, and Zena Grecni Hawaiʻi is among the most vulnerable places in the United States to sea level… Read More
Field Notes from Palau: Measuring Elevation to Turn Flood Stories into Actionable Indicators Coastal flooding in Palau is already affecting daily life—overtopping roads, disrupting access, and threatening critical and culturally important places. In partnership with Pacific RISA, Hawaii Sea… Read More
Islands are often celebrated for their beauty, biodiversity, and deep cultural heritage. But they are also on the front lines of two of the fastest-growing environmental threats worldwide: climate change and invasive species. For US and US-affiliated islands—from… Read More
Advances in natural-language processing and large language models (LLMs), such as those utilized by ChatGPT, are transforming how geoscientists interact with complex datasets, enabling efficient and intuitive scientific analyses. As part of the Tracking and Communicating on Sea… Read More
A recent white paper, co-authored by Pacific RISA’s Laura Brewington and the U.S. Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) highlights the critical importance of islands to the United States, and the harmful impacts that invasive species have on them…. Read More
This February, the Pacific RISA team traveled to Palau for a week to support the co-development of climate services and products that are locally relevant, impact-driven, support sector-based decision making, and to build local capacity to access and… Read More
The Pacific RISA Team recently took a field day to volunteer with the Army Natural Resources Program on Oʻahu (ANRPO) in the Wai‘anae Mountains, where we got to see firsthand what it takes to manage and restore some… Read More
Invasive species are a significant threat to climate-preparedness and resilience, according to a new white paper prepared for the US Department of the Interior by the Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC). The paper, Invasive Species Threaten the Success… Read More
The Pacific RISA is excited to announce our new program name! We are now Pacific Research on Island Solutions for Adaptation, or – as you already know us – “Pacific RISA” for short. Why make a change? Fifteen… Read More
BIOS Helps Advance Resilience Partnerships for Small Islands
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Posted on March 5, 2026 by pacrisa
BIOS helps advance resilience partnerships for small islands Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are on the front lines of the climate crisis, facing overlapping threats that jeopardize lives, livelihoods, and sovereignty. Nearly 74 million people live in SIDS,… Read More
What Hawaiʻi Residents Think About Sea Level Rise
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Posted on February 16, 2026 by pacrisa
Consensus, Urgency, and the Cost Question: What Hawaiʻi Residents Think About Sea Level Rise By Colin Moore, Ketty Loeb, Victoria Keener, and Zena Grecni Hawaiʻi is among the most vulnerable places in the United States to sea level… Read More
Field Notes from Palau
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Posted on February 10, 2026 by pacrisa
Field Notes from Palau: Measuring Elevation to Turn Flood Stories into Actionable Indicators Coastal flooding in Palau is already affecting daily life—overtopping roads, disrupting access, and threatening critical and culturally important places. In partnership with Pacific RISA, Hawaii Sea… Read More
Islands on the Front Lines
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Posted on January 27, 2026 by Laura Brewington
Islands are often celebrated for their beauty, biodiversity, and deep cultural heritage. But they are also on the front lines of two of the fastest-growing environmental threats worldwide: climate change and invasive species. For US and US-affiliated islands—from… Read More
Building an Intelligent Data Exploring Assistant for Pacific RISA
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Posted on April 29, 2025 by pacrisa
Advances in natural-language processing and large language models (LLMs), such as those utilized by ChatGPT, are transforming how geoscientists interact with complex datasets, enabling efficient and intuitive scientific analyses. As part of the Tracking and Communicating on Sea… Read More
New Publication on Islands and Invasive Species
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Posted on April 2, 2025 by Laura Brewington
A recent white paper, co-authored by Pacific RISA’s Laura Brewington and the U.S. Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC) highlights the critical importance of islands to the United States, and the harmful impacts that invasive species have on them…. Read More
Advancing Climate Services for Food Production in Palau
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Posted on March 30, 2025 by Laura Brewington
This February, the Pacific RISA team traveled to Palau for a week to support the co-development of climate services and products that are locally relevant, impact-driven, support sector-based decision making, and to build local capacity to access and… Read More
Climate Change and Endangered Species Conservation in the Wai‘anae Mountains
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Posted on September 19, 2024 by pacrisa
The Pacific RISA Team recently took a field day to volunteer with the Army Natural Resources Program on Oʻahu (ANRPO) in the Wai‘anae Mountains, where we got to see firsthand what it takes to manage and restore some… Read More
Invasive Species Threaten US Climate Change Resilience
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Posted on February 8, 2024 by Laura Brewington
Invasive species are a significant threat to climate-preparedness and resilience, according to a new white paper prepared for the US Department of the Interior by the Invasive Species Advisory Committee (ISAC). The paper, Invasive Species Threaten the Success… Read More
Pacific Research on Island Solutions for Adaptation
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Posted on May 25, 2023 by Laura Brewington
The Pacific RISA is excited to announce our new program name! We are now Pacific Research on Island Solutions for Adaptation, or – as you already know us – “Pacific RISA” for short. Why make a change? Fifteen… Read More
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