April 2009 CTAHR Research News
The April 2009 CTAHR Research News is ready to download. This month we feature Dr. Tomoaki Miura of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. Dr. Miura's Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis and Remote Sensing uses remote sensing and GIS technologies to address environmental and natural resource management issues. Whether it attempting to determine the electromagnetic signature of the invasive fireweed in Hawaii pastureland, or the seasonal variation in cloud cover in our tropical forests or developing methods to remotely evaluate the changes in vegetation as a measure of the health of an ecosystem, Dr. Miura is using these new technologies to answer important questions for individual islands, for the State of Hawaii, and even globally. We hope you will find Dr. Miura's story compelling. Continuing with our series on compliance issues, we have a story on the UH requirements for vertebrate animal use and the UH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. We celebrate the 21st edition of the CTAHR Student Research Symposium. You can download the Symposium Program and read the abstracts or find a list of the award winners. CTAHR's Associate Dean/Associate Director for Research C.Y. Hu reminds about the importance of tracking FTE assignments. Besides our regular features, the Calabash, Recent Publications, and Funding Opportunities, we also have a story about a recent visit by one of the two CTAHR CSREES liaisons, Dr. Peter Burfening; a short item about a recent workshop on inferential statistics; and acknowledge Dr. Chennat Gopalakrishnan, who is serving as the editor of a new academic journal, Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research. Finally, we sadly bid aloha to one of our own, Dr. Kengo (Ken) Otagaki, who passed away recently. Dr. Otagaki was the 2005 CTAHR Outstanding Alumnus and also served on the Department of Animal Sciences faculty for many years. A brief remembrance is provided.
We hope you will download and read our April 2009 edition of the CTAHR Research News. As always if you have suggestions for improvement, please do not hesitate to contact us.