Welcome to Dr. Greg Bruland's Website!
I am an Associate Professor in the Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) Department at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa.
Welcome to Dr. Greg Bruland's Website! I am an Associate Professor in the Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) Department at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. |
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Caption: A photo of Dr. Bruland and Dr. Jonathan Deenik sampling a flooded taro loi on the island of Kauai for our anammox project. This research is funded by the USDA NRI Soil Processes Program. My research program is broad, collaborative, and encompasses multiple spatial scales from the micro (i.e., soil core), to the plot, to the macro (i.e., watershed) levels. It spans a range of related topics including soil and water conservation, watershed management, soil science, wetland biogeochemistry, and coastal ecology. This work focuses on finding ways to better manage tropical watersheds and to protect costal zones from the effects of agricultural activity, urbanization, and invasive species. Two common themes of this research are: (1) developing innovative best management practices (BMPs) for Hawaiian and Pacific watersheds; and (2) employing new technologies for condition assessment and resource management. I believe that the best environmental solutions will be found through focusing on integrated, temporally and spatially-explicit research which takes advantage of the latest developments in global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), geostatistics, and VNIR and MIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS). These technologies allow for research over larger scales and with greater resolution than has been previously possible. Thus, they will help us characterize the status and degradation of soil and water quality at the watershed scale, while also giving growers, landowners, managers, environmental economists, and scientists powerful methods to identify critical source areas of sediments, nutrients, and pathogens as well as optimal sites for BMP implementation, remediation, and restoration. For further information feel free to contact me directly: Dept. of Natural Resources & Environmental Management (NREM) Other Useful Links: University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UHM) (http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/) College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR)(http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/index.asp) Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department (NREM) (http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/nrem/) You are visitor number: Website Last Updated on 2/2/2012.
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