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UH launches free personalized climate summaries for Hawaiʻi subscribers
Reading time: 2 minutes Starting July 1, the Hawaiʻi community can receive free, personalized monthly climate updates tailored specifically to their own neighborhood or coastline delivered straight to their inbox. Developed by the University of Hawaiʻi’s Hawaiʻi Climate Data Portal (HCDP), the new Monthly Climate Summary tool translates complex scientific metrics into highly localized, plain-language updates on rainfall, temperature and drought conditions. Whether you are […]
UH researchers awarded $12M grant to advance AI, data science in medicine
Reading time: 4 minutes Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center and UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) were awarded more than $12 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Pacific Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Medicine (PAC-AID)—a new research center dedicated to accelerating biomedical discoveries through artificial intelligence and data science to benefit […]
How AI and field tech are clearing through the fog on Mount Kaʻala
Reading time: 2 minutes An innovative University of Hawaiʻi research team is using trail cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) to better understand how much fog contributes water to native ecosystems and groundwater recharge. Led in part by Honolulu Community College Professor John DeLay, the project focuses on Mount Kaʻala, Oʻahu’s highest peak and an essential watershed. “If we can keep the project […]
Bridging tradition and technology: Meet Tori Kiliʻohu Cashman Valdez
Reading time: 2 minutes Tori Kiliʻohu Cashman Valdez has spent her years at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo training in everything required to care for the ʻāina (land)—studying ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) over late nights with fellow haumāna (students) at the campus’ Kīpuka Native Hawaiian Student Center, then analyzing aerial imagery the next morning in the geospatial research lab. This spring 2026, she graduates with a double major in environmental science and Hawaiian […]
EVENTS
The National Research Platform: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education
Workshop Description In this workshop we will cover how the National Research Platform (NRP) can be used in the classroom and in research projects. The workshop will be geared towards educational use of NRP, but the tools covered, Jupyter notebooks, LLM as a service, AI workflows, AI chatbots for the classroom, are of broader relevance […]
Differentiable Optimization using JAX on the Koa HPC Cluster
Workshop Description This hands-on workshop covers how to use JAX on the Koa HPC cluster to implement differentiable optimization. This approach bridges scientific computing and machine learning by letting you insert entire optimization solvers as layers inside end-to-end computational models. Instead of unrolling iterative solvers in memory, we will use the Implicit Function Theorem to […]
Deep Generative Models for Learning Complex Geometry on the Koa HPC System
Workshop Description This workshop will cover how deep generative models can be used to learn and generate complex geometric structures, with a focus on subsurface applications such as fracture networks and heterogeneous geological fields. The workshop will introduce the motivation for using generative models in scientific computing, explain how complex geometry can be represented by […]
Thinking About AI in 2026
Workshop Description This workshop will attempt to provide a clear overview of artificial intelligence (AI) accessible to a general audience. We will attempt to define the term “AI” and examine the history of the key events which have led the field to its current state. Fundamental concepts and techniques will be covered such as goals […]
HPC 101 – Onboarding
Description This workshop is an introduction to using high-performance computing (HPC) systems, specifically the Koa HPC. We can’t cover every case or give an exhaustive course on parallel programming in just two hours of teaching time. Instead, this workshop is intended to give students a good introduction and overview of the tools available and how […]
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