The Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, which is a unit of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU, is the home of the faculty and researchers within the School of Ocean Futures who are located on our Hawai’i campus.
GDCS leads spatially-explicit scientific and technological research focused on mitigating and adapting to global environmental change. GDCS-Hawaiʻi is headquartered in the ASU Pacific Ridge-to-Reef Program, located in a joint facility in Hilo, Hawaiʻi that is administered by the US Forest Service.
Researchers
Greg Asner
Center Director and Professor
Katie Kamelamela
Assistant Professor
Clifford Kapono
Assistant Professor
John Kittinger
Research Professor
Roberta Martin
Associate Director of Academics and Associate Professor
Programs
Allen Coral Atlas
Mega Lab
Global Airborne Observatory
ʻĀkoʻakoʻa Program
Research areas
The center’s 10 laboratories utilize specialized focus areas in an effort to understand, adapt to and mitigate the effects of environmental change across the globe.
Asner Lab
Das Lab
Donovan Lab
Fraizer Lab
Kamelamela Lab
Kapono Lab
Kerner lab
The Li Lab
Martin Lab
Nebie Lab
Facilities
GDCS-Hawaiʻi is headquartered in the ASU Pacific Ridge-to-Reef Program, located in a joint facility in Hilo, Hawaiʻi that is administered by the US Forest Service. The Hilo facility houses computational and chemical labs, offices, conference rooms and field operations space. GDCS-Hawaiʻi is located next door to the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, fostering inter-university collaboration and graduate studies across the Hawaiian Islands. GDCS operates major program elements across the State of Hawaiʻi, including the Ridge to Reef Restoration Center in Kailua-Kona, the Marine Education and Research Center in Miloliʻi, MEGA Lab in Hilo and HIMARC in Honolulu.
Learn more about the Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science
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