Some local 5- and 6-year-olds on Fall break spent the week off school at the Komohana Research & Extension Center helping to pilot a new 4-H Junior Master Gardener Early Childhood Development curriculum offered through East Hawai‘i 4-H. The week-long day camp was centered around the theme of roots.

MS alumna Keano Pavlosky, now in medical school at JABSOM, is first author of a recently published article, “The Effects of Transfer From Steady-State to Tidally-Changing Salinities on Plasma and Branchial Osmoregulatory Variables in Adult Mozambique Tilapia,” based on the MS thesis she completed in the lab of co-author Andre Seale (HNFAS).

We are saddened to report the death of former Extension economist and professor John M. Halloran at age 65 in Maine. John spent the first half of his career at UH, advising farmers on marketing in areas from cut flowers to coffee, bananas and papayas to livestock, forests to fisheries. He was instrumental in Hawai‘i’s early farm-to-table movement.

For the next installment in the TPSS seminar series, Noa Lincoln will present a seminar titled “Nitrogen Fixation in Sugarcane: Life After Death.” All are invited to hear this presentation, which will take place on Friday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m. in St. John 106. It can also be accessed via Zoom.

The next NREM seminar, on Wednesday, October 24, will feature Dr. Leah Bremer, an assistant specialist at the UH Economic Research Organization and Water Resources Research Center (UHERO). It will be held from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. in St. John 011. Dr. Bremer will discuss the impacts of water funds and payment for ecosystem services programs in the Andes and watersheds of Hawai‘i and how their implementation can create more durable and equitable outcomes. Her research focuses on stakeholder-driven interdisciplinary research and the multiple benefits of watershed conservation and management.