Pacific Region RCSD Assessment Worksheet
Use this form to add or update a climate assessment to Piko (Worsheet Version June 2012)
Acronym
Name/Title
Spatial Distribution of Groundwater Recharge on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii
Lead Agencies, Institutions and Organizations
USGS/Pacific Islands Water Science Center
Contacts(names, emails)
John A. Engott, jaengott@usgs.gov
Partnering Agencies, Institutions, and Organizations
Hawaii State Commission on Water Resource Management
Assessment Type
Climate Science
Needs And Capabilities
Needs
Capacity
Capabilities
Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused
Area of Applicability
International and National
National and Regional
Regional/Local or Problem-focused
Focus Area
Fresh Water Resources and Drought
Coastal Inundation/Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Community Resilience
Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Region/Locale
Central North Pacific
State of Hawaii
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Remote Islands
Western North Pacific
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)
Guam
Republic of Palau
Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI)
Other Western North Pacific
South Pacific
American Samoa
Australia
Cook Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Kiribati
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Other South Pacific
Pacific Basin
Global
Focus Area
Completed
Ongoing
Planned
Proposed
Description
An updated, island-wide estimate of groundwater-recharge distribution is needed for the island of Oahu, Hawaii. A new water-budget model for Oahu also would take into account the substantial changes in urban and agricultural land use that have occurred during the last several decades, as well as project the effects of future land-use and climate changes. The results from this study are necessary to properly manage groundwater in the State of Hawaii. The study is consistent with the mission of the USGS Science Strategy (2007) to provide citizens, communities, natural-resource managers, and policymakers with a clearer knowledge of the status of their water resources. By providing estimates of current groundwater recharge and analyses of the effects of land-use and climate change on recharge to aquifers that provide public water supply and support fragile ecosystems, this study broadly supports three of the six science directions in the USGS Science Strategy (2007), including (1) a water census of the United States, (2) understanding ecosystems and predicting ecosystem change, and (3) climate variability and change.
Url
http://hi.water.usgs.gov/studies/oahurecharge/
Keywords
Regional/Local or Problem-focused Fresh Water Resources and Drought State of Hawaii Central North Pacific Ongoing Capabilities Needs And Capabilities Capacity
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