Maunakea Speaker Series closes out its 2018 monthly scholar-focused series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, with a presentation on unique arthropod species found on Maunakea. by Jesse Eiben, assistant professor of applied entomology at UH-Hilo.
Maunakea Speaker Series closes out its 2018 monthly scholar-focused series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20, with a presentation on unique arthropod species found on Maunakea. by Jesse Eiben, assistant professor of applied entomology at UH-Hilo.
The free lecture by Jesse Eiben, assistant professor of applied entomology at UH-Hilo, will be held in the UH-Hilo Science and Technology Building, Room 108. On-campus parking is open and available without charge after 4 pm.
With hundreds of species of insects collected and identified during a five-year baseline arthropod biodiversity assessment in the UH Maunakea Science Reserve, Eiben will share stories of the unique species that have evolved and adapted over hundreds of thousands of years of “mountain-shaping” geological and climatological changes on Maunakea during his evening presentation.
Eiben has been documenting arthropod diversity and assisting with conservation planning on Maunakea since 2005. He has mentored graduate students and continues to collaborate with a wide variety of conservation and land-management specialists to better understand the unique natural resources found within the subalpine and alpine stone desert on Maunakea.
The Maunakea Speaker Series is a collaboration between the Office of Maunakea Management, ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center and the and UH-Hilo Hilo Department of Physics and Astronomy.
The series will return in 2019. For more information, visit malamamaunakea.org or call 808-933-0734.
