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last update: 7 October 2009
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| Thursday, September 24, 9:00 am (Molokai Room) |
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Margaret Davidson |
Linking Economic Development with Community Resilience |
| NOAA Coastal Services Center |
Building resilient coastal communities is an economic imperative for Hawai`i, the nation, and all islands in the Pacific and beyond. In Hawai`i, the financial and economic risks posed by hurricanes, Kona storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis are significant, and when compounded by changes in the earth's climate, it is clear many sectors of the State’s economy could be significantly impacted. However, resilient communities are not only able to prevent economic impacts and recover from financial losses, but are able to adapt in the face of adversity in all areas - socially, culturally, and environmentally. It is the interconnectedness of our lives and culture to our environment and economy that makes building resilience a very complex issue, one that requires collaborative approaches to community development, infrastructure planning and siting, resource management, disaster management, and climate adaptation. For this reason, Hawaii’s and other coastal states’ economic recovery will need to overcome existing barriers and develop integrated solutions to the range of pressing issues from food and energy security, water availability, resource degradation, accelerating rates of sea level rise, and public health and safety. To support state and local efforts to build resilient coastal communities the Coastal Services Center and NOAA continue to develop the tools, data, and information the nation needs to understand, communicate, and address the range of risks we face. Yet despite our individual efforts, collaborative approaches are the key to creating sustainable communities and through an expanded network of partnerships can we best protect our investments, sustain our recent gains, and build resilient communities.
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| Thursday, September 24, 10:30 - 11:45 am |
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Rod Low |
Standards and Tools for Incorporating Hawaiian Characters in GIS |
ESRI
Honolulu, HI |
Hawaiian Language characters need be printed on map place names, displayed in tables and shown on web pages. This presentation will discuss the software options to handle keyboard input, methods for storing (or encoding) Hawaiian characters, and the availability of fonts that support the Hawaiian language. Finally tools for translating between the various formats will be presented.
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Henry Wolter |
An overview of the USGS NSDI Liaison role in supporting the National Map thru local partnerships and support for Integrated Science within USGS |
| USGS NSDI Liaison for Hawaii and the Pacific Basin Territories |
Since 2002 Henry has been the USGS NSDI Liaison for Hawaii and the Pacific Basin Territories. His talk will show examples of how the Liaison Role supports building partnership at the Federal, State and Local level support the USGS National Map and local science needs.
Wolter
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G. Salim Mohammed |
Creating Personal Maps using Google Maps |
| UH Manoa Library |
Have you ever had to give directions but had trouble given the unique nature of your directions? Google Maps allow a user to create a map, annotate, label, draw and link to photographs on-line. Learn how one can leverage google maps for your everyday use.
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Jean Y. Fujikawa |
Predicting the Spread of Miconia on O‘ahu |
| Oahu Invasive Species Committee |
Miconia (Miconia calvescens) is a highly invasive tree that has been cited as among the top threats to Hawai‘i’s wet forest ecosystems. The O‘ahu Invasive Species Committee (OISC), building on the work of its volunteer founders and initial work conducted by the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) and Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), has been systematically removing miconia from the southern Ko‘olau Mountains since 2002. What would the miconia situation on O‘ahu be without those dedicated volunteers, HDOA, DLNR, and OISC? An ArcGIS model was created by OISC to illustrate the rapid spread of miconia had no one acted upon the invasive potential of this species or similarly if systematic control efforts were to suddenly stop. This model incorporates variables such as rainfall, age to maturity, and the dispersal range of seeds by birds to depict the invasive spread of miconia on O‘ahu.
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Sandy Margriter |
Assessing the Condition of Coastal Wetlands in the Pacific Islands Network |
| National Park Service, Pacific West Region |
Coastal wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth while also serving to cleanse polluted waters, protect shorelines, and provide wildlife habitat. Human development along the coast and upslope directly and indirectly threaten coastal wetland ecosystems. Numerous methods for assessing the condition of wetland habits have been developed including biological and water quality surveys, wetland rapid assessment procedures (WRAP), and landscape development indices (LDI). Although intensive field surveys are extremely valuable and provide the most detailed analysis of habitat condition they require tremendous effort and are costly. Wetland rapid assessment procedures and landscape development indices, on the other hand, are more expedient and are often correlated with vegetation field surveys and water quality data. LDI assessments are considered Level I assessments that rely on land use and land cover information from maps and remotely sensed data in a Geographic Information System to provide a quantitative assessment of human disturbances along a continuous gradient . WRAP is a level II field based method developed in Florida to assess anthropogenic impacts and the condition of wetland habitats. This project compares LDI indices and WRAP scores for coastal wetlands in three National Historical Parks (NHP) on the Island of Hawaii: Kaloko-Honokohau NHP, Pu`uhonua o Honaunau NHP, and Pu`ukoholä Heiau NHP. WRAP assessment scores were determined from park reports and site visits, including walking the perimeter of the wetland, noting the surrounding vegetation, land use, hydrological features, and water quality conditions. GIS analysis and site visits indicate that local hydrological alterations and non-native species invasions are having more of an impact on wetland condition than human land use within the watershed.
Margriter
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Robert O'Conner |
Using GIS and GPS Technology to Assess Invasive Marine Algae |
| NOAA Fisheries |
Invasive species of marine algae are a problem affecting ecosystems around the world. Hawaii’s isolated and fragile environment is especially vulnerable to reef-changing affects from alien species that have an impact on both marine biodiversity and the economy of Hawaii. The state’s economic dependence on its marine resources for industry and tourism make invasive algae a valid and serious threat. An assessment of invasive alga in the waters off Waikiki was conducted in the summer of 2009 to look at their spatial distribution and to investigate patterns related to both on and off shore use. Data was compiled, mapped, and the percent cover of different substrates as well as marine invasive alga were calculated. The purpose of this project was to create a base map to complement existing data sets and to serve as guidance for prioritizing the completion of future restoration projects.
O'Conner
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Lara Payne |
Emergency Operations – All Hazard Decision Support System (AHDSS) |
Pacific Disaster Center
Kihei, Maui, HI |
Response to disasters often involves coordination across multiple agencies and a broad range of resources. Data essential to emergency management are frequently disparate and incompatible, scattered among multiple jurisdictions. The inability to share data can also impede disaster response resulting in a lack of interoperability at many levels. By establishing an information network that provides a complete picture of what's happening in real time, agencies – from private entities to local to federal – can share information and resources and work in an effective, integrated fashion.
Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), in partnership with Joint Task Force – Homeland Defense (JTF-HD) is developing the All Hazard Decision Support System (AHDSS) based our functional architecture, DisasterAWARE. The AHDSS is a web enabled application that bridges the gap between Federal, DOD, and Local Civil Authorities to create a common operation picture in support of emergency response. The AHDSS is regionally focused on Hawaii, U.S. Territories in the Pacific (CNMI, Guam, American Samoa), freely-associated states (Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, Republic of Marshall Islands) and will bring together (1) high quality baseline map/image data (2) historical hazard mapping & trends (3) risk and vulnerability assessments (4) baseline and change information covering key/critical infrastructure and support facilities (5) current hazard location and intensity updates (6) pre/during/post event imagery and (7) impact evaluations supporting operational planning/execution.
Interoperable across multiple agencies, the AHDSS will enhance preparedness and increase time sensitive response during various crisis (simulated or real world) scenarios.
Payne
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Mark Harrington |
Using GIS for the South Kona, Hawaii County Flood Hazard Study & Indentifying Local Stream Names for the Flood District |
| GROUP 70 INTERNATIONAL, INC. |
Summary of how GIS was used for the South Kona Flood Hazard Study: working with LiDAR data, developing elevation data, H&H modeling, work map production, and identification local stream names. Come find out how this data is being used to produce the South Kona Flood Hazard Study, Technical Support Data Notebook (TSDN), Study Work Maps, and Indentify Local Stream Names for 20 Watercourses.
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Gary Chock |
The use of GIS technology & computational fluid dynamics to develop uniform-risk wind maps for HI |
| Martin & Chock, Inc. |
Hurricane wind hazards will be mitigated in planning and construction of buildings and other structures in Hawaii with the 2009 adoption of customized wind maps implemented in a new State Building Code. In addition to this, new standards for enhanced hurricane protective areas in public buildings have been adopted by the State. HIGICC member Gary Chock will explain how GIS technology as well as computational fluid dynamics were employed to develop uniform-risk wind maps for each county. These probabilisitic map products are available for hazard mitigation planning and facility risk assessments for hurricanes.
Chock
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Meyer, Stein, Tom, Frost, Whitmore |
Climate Change Adaptation Planning |
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This session will focus on climate change adaptation planning efforts in Hawaii. Perspectives and approaches from the federal, State, county, and community levels will be presented. The session will include an overview of: efforts to increase coastal community resilience to natural hazards as well as other adaptation efforts in Hawaii; the newly formed Climate Change Task Force at the State level; climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts in Hawaii County; and a look at how hazard risk and community resiliency tools are being integrated into the Ka`u Community Development Plan process.
Frost
Stein
Whitmore
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Heinrich, Ph.D.; Sumada; Aki; Dierenfield; Fujimori, RLA, ASLA |
Active Transportation and Active Community Design |
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The panel will make presentations and discuss strategies for achieving healthy communities by making walking, public transit, and bicycling fundamental for transportation and recreation through investments in infrastructure and design between and within communities and along streets and roadways. Discussion items include context sensitive design, complete streets, walkable community design, and active transportation infrastructure (bikeways/trails/parkways and parks). Panel moderator, Katie Heinrich, will summarize research about the intersection of health and the built environment relevant to the fields of health, transportation and urban design and discuss consumer demand for communities that promote health. Jiro Sumada, Hawaii Department of Transportation Deputy Director will present the State's efforts to implement context sensitive design and complete streets as a part of community building and design. Nalani Aki, Hawaii Department of Health Healthy Hawaii Initiative Communities Program coordinator, will present the health benefits of complete streets and livable communities as well as current and future efforts by her program to promote healthy communities. Laura Dierenfield of Peoples Advocacy for Trails Hawaii will discuss the role of citizen advocacy in helping to bring about and shape public policy and regulations to achieve investments in infrastructure that promote livable communities. She will present examples, good and bad, of bikeways/trails/parkways. Alan Fujimori, Belt Collins Hawaii, will present examples of neighborhood and community designs that promote active, healthy living within communities.
Dierenfield
Fujimori
Heinrich
Sumada
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Evans; Shim; Plasch; Corbin; Jordan |
Strategies for a Resilient Economy |
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The current global financial crisis, the long-term loss of commerical agriculture, and the future of climate change will require new strategies to improve the resilience of Hawaii's communities. Presenters will offer thought-provoking answers to the following quesrtions: If planners fight to save agricultural lands for food production, will there be farmers to farm that land? How will the global recession affect the decades long partnership between tourism and land development? Will science and technology grow to provide good-paying jobs that bring Hawaii's youth home? Will the ARRA stimulus grants give Hawaii the right catalysts off-set the loss export revenue from the visitor industry?
Plasch
Corbin
Jordan
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Carol Tyau-Beam |
Hawaii Flood Hazard Assessment Tool |
| Hawaii DLNR |
DLNR recently received the ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award, in part, due to their recent work on flood hazards by the Engineering Division for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Through their NFIP website, they have created the "Flood Hazard Assessment Tool" (FHAT) which uses GIS web mapping to promote public access to NFIP information. Users of the website can enter an address and immediately find DFIRM maps, Flood Insurance Studies (FIS) and Letter of Map Change (LOMC) information on flood hazards for the area around that address.
Tyau-Beam
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| Thursday, September 24, 1:45 - 3:00 pm |
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Steven Hochart |
City and County of Honolulu GeoSpatial Work Order Management System |
| CH2M Hill |
Using the latest ESRI ArcServer 9.3 Technology CH2M HILL is implementing a fully integrated GeoSpatial Work Order Management System that utilizes IBM's Maximo Software as the Work Order/ Asset Management Engine. This presentation will explore the integration technology used for the project and provide an overview of the FLEX interface that was developed for the project.
Hochart
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David Takeyama |
Utilization of GIS for an Integrated Inspection Management System |
| Oceanit |
This talk will identify critical phases of high value asset inspection and management and how the Oceanit Inspecta® software solution plays an important role in the information management process. The discussion will focus on how GIS technology including map services were integrated into the solution to provide value added tools for inspection, inventory, and analysis.
Takeyama
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Mike Broten |
Using Web-based Technology to Deliver Geospatial Services at Hickam Air Force Base |
| L3 Communications |
This presentation describes the ways in which web-based technologies and an enterprise geospatial database are being utilized at Hickam Air Force Base to provide GIS-related services to basewide users. An overall goal of the USAF GeoBase program is to provide up-to-date and reliable geospatial information to those who need it, when they need it. At Hickam, over 30 individual web-based map services have been developed, using commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), to support the needs of various users. A GeoBase Home Page provides links to each of the map services, a number of static PDF maps, a Map and Data Request Page, a GIS training module, and various other GIS-related services. Base development and real property information have been geospatially enabled using simple web-based solutions that directly benefit and facilitate the day-to-day work of base development planners, construction managers, facility managers and asset management personnel. Internally, the Hickam Geo Integration Office applies web and database technology to track and manage work/task assignments, to perform QA/QC, and to manage the enterprise geospatial database.
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Jamie Carter |
Technology and Tools for Watershed Management |
| NOAA Pacific Services Center |
Modern high resolution remote sensing systems allow analysts to generate accurate map products that are effective tools for resource management in small, high island environments. Lidar-derived elevation data and satellite-derived land cover data were instrumental in performing watershed-based analyses in the Territory of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Standard tools, such as geographic information systems (GIS) and the Nonpoint-Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (N-SPECT), were used to process the data and generate watershed assessment maps. Additional techniques and tools, such as the Habitat Priority Planner (HPP), were used in conjunction with local expert opinion to refine the strategies needed to address watershed management stressors and ultimately coral reef protection.
Carter
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H. Craig Seaver |
An Overview of Geospatial Data Applications and Spatial Modeling in Alaska: Challenges in a Challenging Environment |
| U.S. Geological Survey |
Alaska is a physically vast area to manage lands and mitigate environmental issues. Alaska includes a diversity of ecosystems, geologic features, fish & wildlife and climatic conditions that are unique and not found elsewhere. These natural resources of Alaska require significant amounts of spatial modeling and GIS analyses which require frequent and accurate foundation data in order to accurately and effectively model information for policy and decision makers. Environmental indicators are of significant focus in Alaska as they represent potential changes which could eventually occur in other regions of the Pacific as well as globally. Important areas of research focus will be discussed and geospatial data and analyses illustrated. Effects of Climate Change - Species, Ecosystems, Societies, Economies, and Health; Ecosystem Change - Causes and Consequences; Avian and Pandemic Influenza - Environment, Wildlife, Human Health; Energy & Minerals - Economy, Homeland & Strategic National Security; Circumpolar Policies - Oceanic Trade Routes
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Cindy S. Barger and Justin Pummell |
Ala Wai Watershed Project: GIS as a planning tool for Mult-objective Watershed Planning |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District |
The Ala Wai watershed encompasses more than 16 square miles and includes Maikiki, Manoa, Palolo subwatersheds and lowlands flowing down to Waikiki. The watershed supports houses 143,000 residents; supports over 1,600 businesses, two universities and 26 schools; and provides 8% of the State Gross Domestic Product, 11% of civilian jobs, and 12% of the State and County tax revenue. Residents in the watershed are at risk for damage from floods that have a 4% or greater probability of occurring in any given year (25-year event), ecosystem health and habitats that support native flora and fauna are significantly impaired, and the streams support some of the highest levels of contaminants in the nation according to the EPA Section 303(d) listing under the Clean Water Act. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District (USACE) in partnership with the State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) and the City and County of Honolulu, Environmental Services (ENV) is developing the Ala Wai Watershed project. The goal of the Ala Wai Watershed project is to improve the overall quality of the Ala Wai watershed, from the crest of the Ko`olau Mountains to the nearshore waters, while minimizing the risk of flood damages to the public. Specific project objectives include: Flood hazard reduction, Ecosystem restoration , Recreation, Water quality, Water supply, Coastal issues, Stakeholder involvement, and Infrastructure maintenance.
The USACE planning process requires identification of the problems, opportunities, challenges and objectives, inventory of existing baseline conditions and forecasting the 50-year future without project condition, and formulation, evaluation and selection of alternative plans. Conducting these planning steps over a complex, urbanized watershed with a variety of objectives sometimes in conflict requires methodologies to organize and analyze information spatially, process varying priorities, balance competing criteria, and communicate complex issues effectively.
This presentation will show how GIS-based tools and models have been used to identify problems and opportunities, inventory baseline conditions and forecast future conditions. The presentation will discuss how the GIS-based tools and models will be used through the alternatives formulation, evaluation and selection process and as an ongoing communication tool to promote stakeholder involvement.
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Craig Clouet |
Transmission of Field Data to and from the Command Center |
| ESRI |
Mobile applications are gaining popularity as new technologies enable the field worker. There are many ways to get information in and out of the main office or headquarters database, some real-time, others with daily or weekly synchronization. This presentation will focus on GIS applications that take advantage of mobile technologies, and explain some of the common options to make this a reality.
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Don Sullivan |
12 Years integrating NASA Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into Earth Science Sensor Webs, where we’ve been, where we’re going. |
| NASA Ames Research Center |
The UAV is a great tool for research studies and disaster management. A couple of projects NASA have used the UAV for were to map the coffee crop at the Kauai Coffee Plantation and the fires that was burning across Southern California. This would be a great opportunity for GIS analysts and planners to learn more about the UAV and what it has to offer.
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Thomas Harris |
Advanced Image analysis in Disaster Response |
| ITT Visual Information Solutions |
Thomas Harris from ITT Visual Information Solutions will present application stories where imagery and advanced image analysis might assist in disaster response, focusing on two recent natural disasters: Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, USA and the tsunami in Ache Province, Indonesia.
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Frano; Chaston, Ph.D. |
Managing Stormwater through Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development |
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This session will provide an introduction to Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development (LID) practices for stormwater management. Emphasis will be given to the integration of LID into new and existing development. This session will build on previous LID trainings and a guidebook developed by Horsley Witten for the Hawaii Coastal Zone Management program in 2006. Green Infrastructure is a broadly used term that has generally referred to the holistic preservation of open space. It describes an interconnected network of green space that conserves natural ecosystems values and functions and provides assorted benefits to human populations. It can be implemented at the site, community, or regional scale. Within our island communities, open space and landscapes can be used to protect our natural resources and quality of life. Low Impact Development is an approach to sustainable land use planning. It includes a suite of landscaping and design techniques designed to maintain the natural, pre-developed ability of a site to function hydrologically. LID techniques capture water on site, filter it through vegetation, and let it infiltrate into the ground where it can recharge the local water table rather than being lost as surface runoff. An important LID principle is that stormwater is not merely a waste product, rather that rainwater is a resource. Many of the LID concepts employ non-structural, on-site treatment of stormwater that can reduce the cost of infrastructure while maintaining or even increasing the value of the property relative to conventional designed developments.
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Chaston
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Anderson, Ph.D., AICP; Fischer, RLA, ASLA; Marra, Ph.D. |
Integrating Climate Adaptation in Hawaii Disaster Risk Management |
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From recent investigations and reports on climate change, sea level rise may potentially rise by one meter by 2050, although projections vary by place. The reality of island ecosystems is that climate changes in sea level rise exacerbated by climate extremes, such as storms, flood, drought, and sea level variation will result in coastal damage and changes along different temporal and spatial scales. Developing a conceptualization of populations at risk and the capacities of government and communities to deal with risks will be critical. This involves the design of response measures today, disaster risk reduction measures in the near-term, and adaptation strategies for impacts on the horizon. The measures, plans, and policies must integrate scientific research, socioeconomic assessments, and practitioner knowledge in the way we manage and use our ecosystems and protect our built environment and infrastructure. Plans and policies must be developed using methods and processes of integrated climate risk management.
In Hawaii, agencies and organizations have begun to develop integrated planning methods that include climate considerations in disaster risk management. The State of Hawaii’s Multi-Hazard Mitigation Strategy and Drought Mitigation plans are including climate considerations in identifying hazard risks and in ways to address these risks through actions. Exploration of plans and programs that need to include disaster risk to build resilient communities to climate change.
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Marra
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Flachsbart, Ph.D., AICP; Lindblom; Soon, FAICP; Ware |
Transit Oriented Development: What Does It Mean for Hawai`i? |
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The APA Hawaii Chapter's Transit Committee will present a session on Transit Oriented Development: What Does it Mean for Planning in Hawaii? This topic applies to those interested in the future urban form once Honolulu has its rail transit system, and the processes that can lead us to preferred alternate futures. The topic is also of interest on each of the neighbor islands where recent development plans have embraced new urbanism and transportation/land use connections.
This session will include the City and County of Honolulu’s new TOD Program Manager, Terry Ware, speaking on the city’s TOD program and public involvement processes; Peter Flachsbart, AICP, presenting results of a recent statewide survey of public opinion on TOD; and Tom Lindblom of the London office of Gensler, a leading firm in TOD development with examples around the world, who will speak on how to make the most of our current opportunities for place-making. Moderator Cheryl Soon, FAICP, will speak on the relevance of TOD for the Neighbor Island transit systems.
This topic is considered critical to many planners, whether they are working on public sector contracts, or whether they are advising private sector clients, landowners, and/or developers. This panel will be designed to address experience-based knowledge for planners, connections to important resources, and comparative information. TOD and transit influenced work is expected to evolve and continue for the next two decades in Hawaii
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Ware
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Andrade, Ph.D.; Enos; Punihaole; Kukea-Schultz; Smitman |
The Importance of Place: Exploring the Opportunities in Local Efforts and Communities for Building Resilient Communities |
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Place, culture, history, and community are essential elements for building resilient communities; however, these elements are often included too late or unsuccessfully in the planning process. Place-based, community-based efforts provide a strong foundation from which planners can help to build resilient communities. Panelists will describe their efforts and experience related to: 1) engaging the community, the youth, and na kupuna; 2) developing food sovereignty; and 3) learning and implementing the framework of ahupua‘a. As they share their stories of their various local efforts to foster resiliency and promote community values and goals, each panelist will explain: 1) the philosophies they employ; 2) the strategies they implement; 3) the challenges they have encountered; 4) the lessons they have learned; and 5) the successes they have witnessed.
Enos
Kukea-Schultz
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| Thursday, September 24, 3:15 - 4:30 pm |
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Patricia Shade |
Soil Data Viewer Application for ArcGIS |
| NRCS, Honolulu, HI |
The soil survey attribute database associated with the spatial soil map is a complicated database with more than 50 tables. Soil Data Viewer provides users access to soil interpretations and soil properties while shielding them from the complexity of the soil database. Each soil map unit, typically a set of polygons, may contain multiple soil components that have different use and management. Soil Data Viewer makes it easy to compute a single value for a map unit and display results, relieving the user from the burden of querying the database, processing the data and linking to the soil map layer. Soil Data Viewer contains processing rules to enforce appropriate use of the data. This provides the user with a tool for quick geospatial analysis of soil data for use in resource assessment and management.
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Ron Cannarella |
Hawaii's State-wide Assessment of Forest Conditions and Resource Strategy; using GIS for island-level planning for sustaining Hawaii's natural Resources. |
| DLNR |
The 2008 Farm Bill requires that all US States, Territories and Freely Associated States (Micronesia) must complete and submit to the Secretary of Agriculture their "State-wide Assessment of Forest Conditions and State-wide Resource Strategy" (SWARS) in order to qualify for a significant number of programs authorized by the Farm Bill. These documents must be submitted by June 18, 2010. The SWARS is highly geospatial in nature, and must map priority areas for watershed protection, fire management, urban forestry, endangered species protection and conservation education. This planning process is the first time that landscape level planning for forestry and forest-based ecosystem services is being undertaken at a statewide scale, across all land ownerships and land uses. For more information: http://www.hawaiistateassessment.info
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Jeremy Kimura and David Penn |
Update, Enhancement, and Maintenance of the NHD for HI |
| State of Hawaii Department of Health |
The NHD is a comprehensive set of digital spatial data that contains information about surface water features such as lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, and springs. Established by the USGS, the NHD is also a nationally standardized reference for uniquely identifying each surface water feature in the State. The Department of Health, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and the Office of Planning are partnering to update, enhance, and maintain the NHD for Hawaii. The impetus for this effort is to create a publicly available surface water dataset, which represents the consolidation of hydrologic data from the three agencies.
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Benjamin L. Richards |
Where Have All the Big Fish Gone? Using GIS to Determine Habitat Affinity for Hawaiian Reef Fish |
| University of Hawaii Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research |
This study represents one of the first and most comprehensive efforts using GIS to investigate habitat preference of large bodied reef fishes (e.g., Carcharhinidea, Carangidea, Lutjanidea,Scaridea >50 cm TL) in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Using a towed-diver method, we conducted ~700 surveys from 2000 to 2006 covering ~1500 km. Biomass and numeric density distributions were analyzed with respect to depth, slope, rugosity, and habitat type using ArcGIS 9.3. Bathymetric data were derived from multibeam sonar, IKONOS and LIDAR surveys and processed using spatial analyst. Habitat type was determined using published benthic habitat layers. Initial analyses reveal significant correlations between overall biomass density of large reef fishes and average depth and seafloor slope. These results contribute to the scientific base for efficient and targeted habitat-based management strategies for large reef fish, begin to define essential fish habitat for these species, and lay the foundation for similar investigations across the wider Pacific Region.
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Sharon Mielbrecht |
Assessing Tractable Threats to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument |
Pacific Disaster Center
Kihei, Maui, HI |
The recently established Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument poses a significant enforcement challenge due to its size, remoteness, and limited existing surveillance and monitoring platforms in the area.
A NOAA-contracted project is underway that will: 1) identify and evaluate tractable threats; 2) assess their impacts on marine and terrestrial plants and animals and their habitats along with the limited manmade infrastructure that exists within the Monument; 3) prioritize threats for surveillance planning; and 4) develop a preliminary surveillance plan.
The results of this effort will inform law enforcement agencies regarding priority areas on which to focus limited enforcement and surveillance resources.
While concerted data collection efforts have taken place and information management systems improved in recent years, data availability is limited, making the geospatial representation of threats and the characterization of their impacts on terrestrial and marine resources difficult.
Consequently, a combination of historical records, empirical data, and information collected by survey from subject matter experts was used in this study.
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Dave Michaelson and Mike Napier |
Protecting Maui's Reef Systems - an Integrated GIS/Planning Approach |
| Maui County |
The island of Maui has been known internationally as home to some of the most spectacular reef systems in the world. Over the last ten years, it has become apparent to scientists, planners and residents that our reef systems are in peril. As part of the Maui Island Plan update, GIS and Planning staff in the Long Range Division of the County's Planning Department undertook a program to integrate GIS data from a wide variety of sources to understand both trend data of reef ecosystem health as well as potential correlations between human and land use influences on the health of our reef ecosystems. Based on input from internationally recognized experts in marine resources, the Division has developed a Watershed Protection Program based on applying GIS analysis to policy development in a way that has never been attempted in the island chain. The approach can serve as a model for applied GIS modeling and data analysis techniques that actually manifest into policy to protect environmental resources.
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Gail Byrne and Orlando Smith |
GIS and Wildfire Mitigation |
| Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization |
GIS plays a central role in planning and implementing measures to effectively mitigate wildfire. Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, a Hawaii Island 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, uses GIS to 1.) convey concepts; 2.) present data; and 3.) analyze data to generate new understanding for directing work. Various projects include planning (mapping of critical resources for fire suppression, fire history mapping), analysis to identify hazard areas and research and post-fire restoration sites, and modeling to identifying how to best mitigate wildfire hazards and best plan for development.
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Denise Laitinen |
Preventing Catastrophe: the Firewise Approach to Community Design |
| Firewise Communities |
Firewise Communities is a national initiative co-founded more than 20 years ago by the USDA and National Fire Protection Association to reduce the risk of wildfire in communities. Firewise Communities encourages the efforts of federal and state agencies, local communities, and individual homeowners in a proactive approach to design, build, and maintain homes and properties to be compatible with the natural environment. Since 1999 Firewise has partnered with ESRI to use Arc View software to demonstrate Firewise principles in community design. Learn abut the role of wildfire hazard mitigation and landuse planning in reducing the potential for losses as a result of wildfires. Time permitting, will also highlight findings of the APA Advisory Service report prepared under the sponsorship of the National WUI Fire Program.
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Rich Nezelek |
Hawaii Fire Fuels Mapping |
Pacific Disaster Center
Kihei, Maui, HI |
Fire risk to a community is complex and results from multiple factors including fuels, land use, and weather cycles. The goal of this project is to create a fuels risk element for Hawaii counties. The upgraded identification of fuel types and hazards for Hawaii will permit improved fire hazard analysis by Fire and Civil Defense personnel. A primary outcome of the PDC-sponsored fuels map project is a high-resolution, up-to-date fire fuels map as well as a process to periodically update the map to reflect land use/land cover changes.
Nezelek
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Sullivan; Enos; Hong; Okimoto; Kunimoto; Teves |
If the Boats Stop Coming: Increasing Resiliency in Hawaii's Food Systems |
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It’s been estimated that between 85-90 percent of Hawaii’s food is imported, which makes Hawai`i particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and global events that might disrupt shipping and Hawaii’s food supply. Increasing food self-sufficiency in Hawai`i will require sound public policies, the best available science, an efficient, viable industry, and a public willing to support local agriculture. Agriculture in Hawai`i is at a critical point: the state risks losing farmers, prime agricultural land, and irrigation systems, which will diminish our ability to increase local food production. Panelists will discuss the current state of food security in Hawai`i through their work in policy, land use, education, and farming, and how planning might contribute to increasing food self-reliance.
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Ewell, LEED AP; Miller, LEED AP; Schmitz; Norton; Kane |
Greening Communities: LEED ND and Green Building |
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This session will examine approaches to create more sustainable and energy-efficient communities. The first presentation will focus on the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED for Neighborhood Development program (LEED-ND). LEED-ND was developed through an innovative partnership between the Congress for New Urbanism, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the U.S. Green Building Council to extend the value and applicability of LEED from single buildings to whole neighborhoods and communities. This presentation reviews the intent, structure, and strategy of LEED-ND; evaluation strategies to inform planning and design decisions; and surveys a sample of diverse projects that currently participate in the LEED-ND Pilot. A brief review of the current state of the pilot program and the primary proposed changes to the final version of LEED-ND, due for release in 2010, will be provided. One of the LEED-ND pilot projects in Hawai`i being managed by Actus Lend Lease will be the focus of the second presentation.
The third presentation will discuss zero energy homes and how to balance investments in efficiency and renewable generation to create homes that produce as much energy as they consume. The discussion will explore the impact of air conditioning, PV sizing for ZEH, and the role of occupant choice and behavior in zero energy performance.
The final presentation will feature the green building initiatives and recent green building projects being undertaken by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
Miller
Schmitz
Norton
Kane
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Conger; Hwang; O'Connell |
Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: Implications for Land Use Planning in Hawai`i |
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The last century has seen a rapid increase in land use along the coasts with continued development of heavily populated coastal regions worldwide. These communities have become increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise and variability. Rising sea levels will contribute to increased storm surge and flooding, leading to more frequent and destructive damage to coastal infrastructure and ecosystems. Rising sea levels will also contribute to the erosion of sandy beaches. Research of sea-level rise and variability along with projected shoreline positions will result in improved recognition of hazards and allow government to evaluate and plan for various response strategies. Future structural and non-structural adaptation measures will need to include relocating critical infrastructure vulnerable to coastal hazards as well as ecosystem protection.
Conger
Hwang
O'Connell
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Miyashiro, Ph.D., J.D.; Coffman; Cooper; Flachsbart, Ph.D., AICP; Tome |
Energy Efficient Transportation Strategies |
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In 2007, the Hawaii State Legislature enacted Act 254, which instructed the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum (HEPF) to develop energy-efficient transportation strategies. HEPF is a partnership of private businesses, environmental advocates, energy experts, and state government agencies. Its aim is to encourage greater dialogue on energy issues in Hawaii and offer a vision of an energy-efficient transportation system. The session will report on current efforts by the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) to develop alternative transportation fuels and electric vehicle technology in Hawaii. HCEI is a partnership between the State of Hawaii and the U.S. Department of Energy to satisfy 70 percent of the state's energy demands through energy efficiency and renewable energy by 2030. Companies such as Better Place, Phoenix Motorcars, and Coulomb Technologies propose to introduce electric vehicles and establish infrastructure to test electric vehicle technology in Hawaii. The session will also report preliminary results of a telephone survey of consumer attitudes, behaviors, and preferences on energy-efficient transportation strategies in Hawaii. The statewide survey, which received funding from the Federal Highway Administration and the state Department of Transportation, interviewed 1,536 adult residents of Hawaii during summer 2009.
Coffman and Flachsbart
Cooper and Goldstein
Tome
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| Friday, September 25, 8:15 am (Molokai Room) |
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Alan M. Mikuni |
Science for a Changing World: The U.S. Geological Survey Science Strategy and Geospatial Data |
| U.S.Geological Surevy |
In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed a science strategy outlining the major natural-science
issues facing the nation in the next decade. The science strategy consists of six science directions of critical
importance, focusing on areas to which science can make a substantial contribution to the well-being of the
nation and the world. The science directions are: Understanding Ecosystems and Predicting Ecosystem Change;
Climate Variability and Change; Energy and Minerals for America’s Future; Natural Hazards, Risk, and Resilience
Assessment; the Role of Environment and Wildlife in Human Health; and a Water Census of the United States.
Addressing these societal issues offers opportunities for growth in USGS programs and the ability to help
decision-makers make wise, informed decisions. A seventh science direction, Data Integration and Beyond,
ensures strong scientific linkages among the major science thrusts. This presentation will provide an overview
of how the National Map, geospatial data, and geographic information systems can contribute to data
integration and to the accomplishment of the USGS’ Science Strategy.
Mikuni
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Elizabeth Kunce-Wagner and Pooja Sood-Payeur |
Fostering Resilient Communities |
| COE Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance |
The COE Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance supports the U.S. Geographic Combatant Commands in the achievement of their regional enduring
outcomes, such as protecting the homeland. This is accomplished by fostering resilient communities and
societies. Healthy and vibrant communities that are able to resist, quickly recover, and more rapidly revitalize
following natural and man-made disasters are the most secure and stable. The Department of Defense (DOD)
receives significant annual funding for the conduct of humanitarian assistance and civic action projects, but
lacks a common aim and applied methodology to create synergy and guide efforts. Earlier this year, the Center
launched its “Fostering Resiliency Project” to determine what makes an individual household, community, and
society resilient before, during, and after disasters, and to design a common framework. This effort will inform
the USPACOM’s – and ultimately the DOD’s – thoughtful investment in civic action programs around the world.
The framework currently under development at the Center will be general in nature to ensure applicability
across the vast spectrum of communities, yet provide sufficient application methodology that accommodates
the variation in geography, culture, and socio-economic features among regions.
Sood-Payeur
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| Friday, September 25, 8:15 - 11:45 am (Ewa Room) |
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David L. Callies |
Current Planning Law - Understanding the Hot Planning Issues |
| William S. Richardson School of Law |
This session will address current topics in planning law and policy as it impacts the national and local scene, including public purpose in eminent domain acquisitions, the use of mandatory affordable housing set-asides, public rights related to oceanfront land beyond the public beach itself, and revisiting land use regulation in Hawaii on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the enactment of Hawaii’s State Land Use Law.
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Dinell, FAICP; Yamashita, FAICP |
Planning Ethics |
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This workshop will provide a refresher on the APA AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. There will be a short review of the basic ethics principles, rules of conduct, and procedures on code enforcement. This review will be followed by a breakout group discussion of a fictionalized planning scenario that will draw out key points of discussion on how planners could face many ethical questions in real life situations. The workshop will be conducted by a team of seasoned planners with roots in academia, private practice as well as local and federal government experience.
Dinnell and Yamashita
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| Friday, September 25, 10:15 - 11:30 am |
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Linda Akers Smith and Timothy McMonagle |
Census 2010 and Geographic Partnership Programs: an update |
| Los Angeles Regional Census Center |
The presentation will include a discussion of Census 2010 Geographic Partnership programs including Participant Statistical Areas Program Verification and New Construction. Plans for conducting the Census will be presented and a tentative schedule of upcoming data and geographic products will be provided.
Akers-Smith and McMonagle
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Vicki Lukas |
Geospatial News from the Federal Level |
| U.S.Geological Survey |
Increasingly, the Federal government is addressing geospatial initiatives at the Federal enterprise level. Over the last 1-2 years, many advances have been made in programs including Imagery for the Nation, The National Map, Geospatial One Stop, and Geospatial Line of Business. Come hear the latest status and direction of our national geospatial efforts.
Lucas
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Luciano Minerbi |
GIS for Resilient Communities in Rural Hawaiian Ahupua`a |
| University of Hawaii |
GIS, heritage landscape assessment, land tenure documentation, databases for resilient communities and watershed planning come together in place based management for rural Hawaiian ahupuaa. Examples from, Hawai`i, Mau`i, and Oah`u.
Minerbi
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Rob James |
A Digital Approach to Updating Honolulu’s Land Use File |
| Helber Hastert & Fee |
This presentation will discuss the recent effort to update the City and County of Honolulu’s Land Use File, which had lapsed about 10 years. A methodology was developed using GIS (model builder, slope analysis, geocoding) and database tools to automate the creation of a current Land Use File for their use in planning and transportation decision making.
James
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Tom Carlson |
Assessing the functionality of urban growth boundaries |
| U.S.Geological Survey |
While there is wide-ranging literature on the topic of urban growth boundaries, there has been significantly less exploration done on the evaluation of these geographies. This paper depicts an effective methodology to measure urban sprawl in order to evaluate the effects of urban growth boundaries in the Puget Sound Region, Washington. The paper utilizes a comparative process to demonstrate the difference between the standard approaches to measuring and monitoring urban sprawl and the one developed by the author. The process utilizes residential building permit data from 1991 to 2002 that were put into a geographic information system and geocoded to the street centerline files of King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap Counties. The results of this work indicate that since the establishment in 1995 of urban growth boundaries in the region, there has been a substantial increase in the density of residential permits inside some of those boundaries while there are less dramatic results in others. The implications of these findings are important for planning practitioners and the evaluation of growth management policies throughout the United States and elsewhere.
Carlson
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Erik C. Franklin |
A Knowledge Management System for the Kaneohe Bay Ecosystem |
| Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology |
Resilient communities require a holistic, long-term perspective on the dynamics of island environments and biological populations, and human interactions with those ecosystems. The Kaneohe Bay information system establishes a web-based resource to increase awareness and share knowledge of the Kaneohe Bay ecosystem through geospatial technologies. The framework for the system is a place-based hierarchy of four organizing themes: Physical Environment, Habitats, Biology, and Human Dimensions. In order to increase awareness and potential collaboration among local partners, the presentation focuses on technical development details for the system which will be deployed in January 2010.
Franklin
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Doug Holdt |
Advantages of Building Enterprise Web Mapping Applications Using COTS Software |
| Pacific Air Forces Expeditionary GeoBase |
The Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) Enterprise viewer was the first web mapping application developed in the Air Force using ESRI ArcIMS and Geocortex IMF technology. Building on that success, this web-based mapping application has subsequently been deployed at nine air bases in the Pacific (Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Korea and Japan). Integrated with the PACAF Enterprise GIS database, applications have been deployed for management of airfield obstructions, environmental programs, space utilization and more. The use of Geocortex IMF as the PACAF mapping framework has allowed new mapping applications to be developed in weeks rather than months. The success of these applications subsequently led to adoption of the PACAF Enterprise viewer to be the new Air Force-wide standard. This presentation will summarize how the use of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software allowed these web applications to be built faster and more inexpensively than otherwise would have been possible, thus yielding a positive return on investment.
Holdt
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Michael Parke, Haiying Wang, Vikram Khurana |
Developing a Data Display, Query, and Delivery System in ArcServer using Flex |
| Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center |
The Coral Reef Ecosystem Division of the PIFSC collects extensive amounts of geophysical, oceanographic and biological data from a number of Pacific islands under U.S. jurisdiction. While we have an internal geodatabase that facilitates use of the data internally, we needed a mechanism that allows outside partners and the public access to these data. Using a Linux server, and with contract assistance from ESRI, we have developed an application using Flex. The Flex API provides robust display, query, and data download functionality. This presentation will describe the effort that went into developing the application and demo the current version of the application.
Parke, Wang and Khurana
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Moderator: Carol Kennedy |
Electric/Telecom Utility Roundtable |
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Leaders from the telecom and public utility sectors will discuss a variety of topics of mutual interest. Topics to be discussed will include how each utility is using GIS, what applications are being used, the strengths and weaknesses of the systems, how utilities can benefit from cooperating together and how to accomplish this objective. Attendees will also have an opportunity to raise questions, concerns, and issues in this open forum.
Roundtable Members: Neal Nakamura, Engineering Information Manager, Oceanic Time Warner Cable;
Christopher Anderson, Hawaiian Electric Company; Bart Garcia and Fred Pascual, Kauai Island Utility
Cooperative
Kennedy
Nakamura
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Kim, Ph.D.; Harshman |
Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning: Avoiding the Rush to Normalcy |
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A reconstruction and recovery plan is a document that guides the repopulation and reconstruction of a community following a catastrophic event. Ideally, the planning process and associated documents are finalized well before disaster strikes. However, the frenzy to “return to normal” typically shatters any desire for a planned approach. Sadly, the reconstructed community looks just like the old one – lacking any efforts to mitigate against future hazard events or incorporate other improvements to the impacted area. The pressures and influences on the community’s decision makers drown out the pleadings of the planners and emergency responders to make fundamental changes while the community is in flux.
Kim
Harshman
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| Friday, September 25, 10:15 - Noon (Molokai Room) |
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Burkett; Lau; Peck; Aiu; Hunt; Todd; Tanoue; Mayer |
Climate Change, Mitigation, and Resiliency: Implications for Planning |
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Any new policy to address climate change mitigation and adaptation will affect all communities and the planning decisions made for those communities. Specifically, Act 234, signed into law by Governor Lingle on June 30, 2007, requires Hawaii to reduce its statewide greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by January 1, 2020. This session will review work underway by the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Task Force, established by the Act and charged with the development of a work plan and regulatory scheme for statewide greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies, including regulatory mechanisms and legislative proposals. The session will also review the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, and identify the operational and infrastructure implications that planning should address. Panelists will provide an update on the progress of the Task Force, an introduction to the state, county, and non-governmental efforts to help Hawaii adapt to climate change, and observations on the implications of this work for planning and communities.
Burkett
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Peck
Hunt
Mayer
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| Wednesday, September 23 Workshops |
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George Atta, AICP, LEED AP |
A Behind the Scenes Look at Coconut Island and He`eia Fishpond |
| Group 70 International |
This mobile workshop will examine how science and field experience informs institutional and community efforts forecosystem management. A visit to Coconut Island will reveal connections between the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and work being done from the world-renown Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) in Kaneohe Bay, as well as touch on the rich history of Moku O Loe, Coconut Island. The tour will include a visit to nearby Heeia Fishpond, where work is underway to restore this 800-year-old fishpond. Visitors to Heeia are familiarized with “hookama aina”—their role and responsibility in perpetuating traditions of the fishpond and others like it, and how it is important to developing a sense of place locally and regionally. At both stops, principles of ecosystem-based science and management will be discussed.
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Doug Walker |
Tools and Technology for Planning Resilient Communities |
| Placeways, LLC |
This high-tech, interactive workshop illustrates methods for planning resilient communities using GIS systems like ArcGIS and CommunityViz, along with keypad (clicker) polling, environmental models, and other tools and techniques. Modules include:
- "Maps Alive! How interactive GIS can support all stages of the planning process
- The Planners Sandbox: Growth planning and impact analysis using CommunityViz
- Beyond Buildings: Integrated land-use/conservation/hazard analysis and planning using a collection of tools and models
- Curing Vacant Stares: Public engagement and public meetings—keypad polling, mapping games and other methods for helping groups and general audiences contribute to the planning process in meaningful ways.
The session will include live keypad polling exercises, live computer demonstrations, and reports on several recent or current projects in coastal areas including South Carolina, Texas, and British Columbia.
Walker
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