Environmental Monitoring
HIGP has long been involved in inventing technology for monitoring our environment. This work has evolved from our origins as:
- A geophysical observatory charged with providing the State of Hawaiʻi with expertise regarding local geological phenomena.
- A planetary science research group with experience gathering and interpreting data from land, sea, sky, and space.
Hawaiʻi’s people and environments are our greatest assets. Our ability to preserve and manage our environments will increasingly rely on the development of new sensors with which to monitor the world around us, as well as methods for analyzing the data sets and making them available to decision makers.
Click to Read More HIGP faculty members have: Understanding Hawaiʻi’s changing natural environments over the coming years will rely upon accurate measurements of our air, water, and land. HIGP is well placed to invent, build, and deploy the cutting-edge measurement technologies the State will need to do this.
