Students will all gather at California State University at Long Beach for one week of initial training on geospatial technology:  computers, GIS, image processing, data generation techniques, etc.  Students and Graduate Assistants will be housed at the CSULB dorms for this week-long training session.  We will then all travel to the beautiful State of Hawai’i or the two-week field portion of the project.

June 2-7:        CSULB

June 8-29:      Hawai’i

This experience is designed to provide a truly unique research and educational opportunity for undergraduate students through active participation in data collection and analysis in support of ongoing research by scientists at CSULB and  the University of Hawaii.

GRAM research is conducted at two scales:  local site and broader landscape.  The summer research experience emphasizes the use of geospatial techniques to aid hypothesis-driven geospatially based natural resource and archaeological research and mapping that will result in improvements in the monitoring and analysis of environmental processes on Kaua`i.  The natural resource-focused research contributes to improved understanding of long-term changes in vegetation cover dynamics, natural hazards, non-point source pollution, and surface/groundwater quality.  The archaeological research improves our understanding of settlement chronology and resource utilization prior to European contact.  An important practical goal is to assist NTBG with baseline studies and monitoring protocols to assess the effectiveness of ecological restoration and cultural preservation activities.