Pacific Region RCSD Assessment Worksheet
Use this form to add or update a climate assessment to Piko (Worsheet Version June 2012)
Acronym
IEA
Name/Title
Kona Area Integrated Ecosystems Assessment
Lead Agencies, Institutions and Organizations
NOAA/NMFS/Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
Contacts(names, emails)
Evan Howell, evan.howell@noaa.gov Jeffrey Polovina, jeffrey.polovina@noaa.gov
Partnering Agencies, Institutions, and Organizations
USGS, NPS, State of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Oregon State University, IPRC, WPRFMSC, The Kohala Center
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
The purpose of an IEA is to perform a formal synthesis and quantitative analysis of information on relevant natural and socio-economic factors, specifically in relation to identified ecosystem management goals for a region. The Kona region was a natural choice for this pilot IEA project based on its dynamic ecology and the vast history of research done in this area. The first stage of the Kona IEA aims to complete the first important steps of the IEA process. These include a scoping process to understand what is known about the system and to identify key management issues and potential data sources. Major goals for this initial phase of this pilot IEA aim to deliver a completed interactive data portal on the web as well as begin one and multi-year IEA projects. The data portal would serve as a central repository for currently available information for the region, as well as provide an interactive platform to view relevant information. To date work has begun on two ecosystem modeling projects as well as support given for building of ecosystem indicators and biological surveying of coral reef fish in the Kona region. The initial phase of the IEA should be completed within one year with the hope that this program will receive support to continue through additional years.
Url
http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/kona_iea/
Keywords
Ongoing Risk and Vulnerability or Problem-focused Regional/Local or Problem-focused Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems Central North Pacific State of Hawaii
Worksheet
Assessment-Kona_IEA.doc