Final Overview for Kailua Watershed

Everything must come to an end!

This is the very last post in the Watershed Stewardship Course at Virginia Tech.

It is a post that summaries through a single slide, which presentations that you as a reader can find through this blog. Next comes a +110 slide complete portfolio; a single presentation of all the subjects and products. References can be found at the very end of the presentation. 

I have re-arranged them into two categories:
Nature and Human

If you have enjoyed to follow this blog, you are lucky! I have decided to let it stay, and use it for future courses too as well as for the fun of blogging to you about my home town. 

Flood Hazard Maps and Alluvial Soil

Flood Hazard and Soil Mapping 

This presentation have allowed me to explore the watershed's neighbourhoods, and which of the residential areas who will need to buy themselves a flood insurance. 

On top of that I further investigated which areas that carry the best soil in terms of absorbing precipitation and water from floods. 

Works Cited

FEMA. (2019). Department of Homeland Security - FEMA. Retrieved November 2019, from Definitions of FEMA Flood Zone Designations: https://snmapmod.snco.us/fmm/document/fema-flood-zone-definitions.pdf

FEMA. (2019, March 06). FEMA. Retrieved November 2019, from About Agency: https://www.fema.gov/about-agency

FEMA. (2019). FEMA. Retrieved from Regional Contacts: https://www.fema.gov/fema-regional-contacts

Hawaii Statewide GIS Program. (2019, March). Geoportal Hawaii. Retrieved November 2019, from Flood Hazard Areas (DFIRM) - Honolulu County - Kailua: http://geoportal.hawaii.gov/datasets/8f0c55dee33f4eb5815dc2b191e684f6_5/data?geometry=-157.866%2C21.370%2C-157.632%2C21.426

United States department of Agriculture. (2019, November 23). Soil Survey. Retrieved November 2019, from Kailua Watershed Soil Survey: https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx

Vocabulary.com. (2019). Vocabulary.com. Retrieved from Dictionary - Alluvial Soil: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/alluvial%20soil

Planning Outline of Presentations

Planning Outline of Presentations of Kailua Watershed

Kawainui (Front) with Olomana (Left), Maunawili Valley (Center back) and Ko'olau Mountain-range (Far back and right)
(Nikolai Madsen, October 2019)

Invasive Species of Kawainui Marsh

INVASIVE PLANTS OF KAILUA WATERSHED

via MEME

Kailua Watershed have many beautiful areas, and whether or not you are hiking the various trails or simply just enjoy driving through gives you an idea of how various a plant life that exists here, along with many significant indigenous animals. 

Along the ridges of the great ko'olau Mountain range falls a lot of rain water which ultimately ends up in Maunuwili Stream and down into Kawainui Marsh, which is the great wetland of the area, and home for many ancient myths and stories. This wetland is gives home to many plant species, which compose of both native plants, but unfortunately also one species of plants that have been introduced by man, and since then have become a large plague for the area. This is my presentation of the history, the situation and the fight against it: 

Works Cited

Guinther, E. (2015, November 25). Kawainui Marsh. Retrieved from Plants and Animals: http://www.koolau.net/Kawai_Nui_4.html

HHF. (2019). HHF.com. Retrieved from Kawainui Wetland Restoration Manual: https://www.hhf.com/2016/kawainui-marsh-wetland-forest-restoration-project/

Kailua Bay Advisory Counsel. (2007, June). Hawaii State Department of Health. Retrieved October 2019, from Ko’olaupoko Watershed Restoration Action Strategy Kailua Bay Advisory Council (KBAC): http://health.hawaii.gov/cwb/files/2013/05/PRC_WatershedKoolaupoko.pdf

Kapadia, K. (2017, March). hanahou.com. Retrieved from Around the Great Water: https://hanahou.com/20.1/around-the-great-water

MacDonald, G., Sellers, B., Langeland, K., Bond, T. D., & Guest, E. K. (2008). University of Florida. Retrieved from Urochloa mutica: https://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-directory/urochloa-mutica/

Marsh Master Sebastian Services, LLC 2 (2015). [Motion Picture]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=122&v=vJpeSrzeCek

Nā Pōhaku Ecology Group. (2019, May 15). Ahahui.net. Retrieved from About us: http://www.ahahui.net

Starr Environmental. (2006, February 28). Starrenvironmental.com. Retrieved from Habitat and aerial view - Kawainui Marsh: http://www.starrenvironmental.com/images/image/?q=24856557775

Wikipedia. (2019). Wikipedia.com. Retrieved from Brachiaria Mutica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiaria_mutica

Equipment Research

Here comes the post for GEAR fanatics!!! 

WATERSHED EQUIPMENT RESEARCH

Getting around the Marsh (Kapadia, 2017)

When looking at the picture above, it is not hard to understand why the Jurrasic Park and Jurrasic World movies was shot here on the Hawaiian Islands. So remote, with such a fantastic nature. To keep this nature beautiful, it sometimes require more than rubber boots, a shovel and binoculars. Welcome to a presentation of local requirements and trouble. This post and the next: Invasive species is closely connected - as are they to the previous one: Dendrology. 

I present a slideshow that introduce you to local problems, and how they are solved. Further, I give my own research of one of the equipment types newest to the environmental field and organisations, which can widely help and capture current states of local wetlands and watersheds in general:

DRONES

Works Cited

Corrigan, F. (2019, October 14). Dronezon.com. Retrieved from Learn About Drones: https://www.dronezon.com/learn-about-drones-quadcopters/what-is-drone-technology-or-how-does-drone-technology-work/

DJI. (2019). DJI. Retrieved from DJI Inspire 2 Drone: https://www.dji.com/inspire-2?site=brandsite&from=nav

Federal Aviation Administration. (2019). Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved from UAS: https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/

Ferracane, J. (2019, July 10). National Park Service. Retrieved October 2019, from ‘Ōhi‘a Challenge winner announced at Hawai‘i Conservation Conference: https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/news/20190710_rod_challenge_winner.htm

HPD. (2019). Honolulu Police Department. Retrieved from News: http://www.honolulupd.org/news/index.php?page=main&story=1928

Kailua Bay Advisory Counsel. (2007, June). Hawaii State Department of Health. Retrieved October 2019, from Ko’olaupoko Watershed Restoration Action Strategy Kailua Bay Advisory Council (KBAC): http://health.hawaii.gov/cwb/files/2013/05/PRC_WatershedKoolaupoko.pdf

Kapadia, K. (2017, March). hanahou.com. Retrieved from Around the Great Water: https://hanahou.com/20.1/around-the-great-water

KOLAKOWSKI, M. (2019, June 25). Investopedia.com. Retrieved from Invasion Drones Top 6 stocks: https://www.investopedia.com/news/invasion-drones-top-6-stocks/

State of Hawaii - DNLR. (2019). Division of State Parks. Retrieved from Hawaii State Park Rules: http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dsp/park-rules/

TAZ (Director). (2017). Kawainui Marsh [Motion Picture]. Hawaii - United States: Youtube.com.

UAVCOACH. (2019). UAVCoach.com. Retrieved from Drone Laws in Hawaii: https://uavcoach.com/drone-laws-hawaii/

Yuneec. (2018). Yuneec.com. Retrieved from Typhoon H: https://us.yuneec.com/typhoon-h-overview