Updated at 11:17 a.m., Thursday, February 15, 2007
Bishop Museum to use $290K grant for climate study
Advertiser Staff
The Bishop Museum received a $290,000 MacArthur grant for scientists to study ways to mitigate global climate changes in the Pacific.The grant will allow 18 months of study on climate change planning and mitigation to help stem the threats of global warming. Bishop Museum is one of eight institutions worldwide to receive such grants.
The grant will be used to fund an assessment report on the vulnerability of biodiversity and island ecosystems in Melanesia to climate change.
Information: Bishop Museum Science Department and the Melanesian biodiversity study, 847-3511.
