Progress 09/15/06 to 09/14/09
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Funds received have been expended to complete the restoration following the October 30, 2004 Flash Flood that struck the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Seven out of 8 buildings that are home to the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) were in the direct path of the wall of water that flooded basements, damaged laboratories and instrumentation, destroyed electrical and air conditioning infrastructure and wreaked havoc on CTAHR. Damage to the University power grid, caused immediate power outages to 35 buildings across the campus. Four buildings, including CTAHR's Agricultural Sciences Building III and the Sherman Laboratory, sustained significant damage to their electrical and air conditioning infrastructure. To restore power to rest of the campus, these buildings had to be isolated from the rest of the campus electrical grid. With chemical storage rooms in the basements of most buildings, the integrity of stored reagents and solvents were uncertain. Without power, walk in freezers and freezers in labs, including -80o freezers, containing sensitive and in some cases, irreplaceable research samples were at risk. PARTICIPANTS: Participants include the faculty and staff of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources who made assessment of the damages and worked under difficult conditions during the restoration and mitigation. TARGET AUDIENCES: Faculty, staff, and students of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources were the beneficiary of the replacement of equipment and mitigation of flood damages. External stakeholders to CTAHR also benefited through improved research capacity in CTAHR; and improved ADSC service capability. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Not relevant to this project.
Impacts
To date, the funds have been expended or encumbered. Some examples of equipment replaced are the 12 plant growth chambered in the Pope Laboratory that were damaged due to the flooding; these growth chambers are now operating and are being used jointly by the Departments of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences (TPSS), Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM), Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering (MBBE) and Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences (PEPS). Also replaced were computers and servers in the CTAHR Student Computer Lab, which were damaged due to the extended periods of power outages, high temperature, and humidity in the Agricultural Sciences Building. Among other equipment replaced in the Agricultural Sciences Building were a mass spectrophotometer - gas chromatograph for MBBE; a liquid scintillation counter for the Human Nutrition Food and Animal Sciences (HNFAS) Department , high speed refrigerated centrifuge (HNFAS); freeze dryer (MBBE); Gamma Counter (HNFAS); Flow cytometer (MBBE); ELISA plate reader (MBBE); HPLC (MBBE). Equipment, part of the CTAHR Agricultural Diagnostic and Service Center, housed in Sherman Laboratory also had to be replaced. While most of the equipment replaced in Agricultural Sciences and other CTAHR buildings was not damaged directly by the flooding, most were affected by the periods of extended power outages; the lack of air conditioning, and the resultant high humidity and the subsequent mold growth which wreaked havoc on sensitive electrical circuitry. Other equipment in other buildings were damaged similarly, not directly by the flood waters but by the aftermath of the flood. In addition to damaged equipment, tissue culture samples and cDNA collections housed in -80o freezers were lost due to extended power outages. Funds from the grant were set aside to help replace these samples. Solvent and chemical rooms were also flooded requiring disposal of hazardous chemical. Mitigation of the damage has improved the research capacity of CTAHR by replacing aged and unrepairable equipment; has increased the College's ability to serve its student by making improvements to its computer lab and to its external stakeholders by making the Agricultural Diagnostic and Service Center functional again.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 09/15/07 to 09/14/08
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Funds received are largely expended to complete the restoration following the October 30, 2004 Flash Flood that struck the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. There some delays in completing the installation of some of the new equipment but for the most part the equipment has been replaced and installed. PARTICIPANTS: Participants include the faculty and staff of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources who made assessment of the damages and worked under difficult conditions during the restoration and mitigation. TARGET AUDIENCES: Faculty, staff, and students of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources were the beneficiary of the replacement of equipment and mitigation of flood damages. External stakeholders to CTAHR also benefited through improved research capacity in CTAHR; and improved ADSC service capability. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Not relevant to this project.
Impacts
The CTAHR Computer lab is back fully functioning and serving students in the College. The new CTAHR file servers are replaced and operating normally. The growth chambers in the Pope Laboratory damaged in the flood have been replaced by new chambers and the equipment is fully operational and fully utilized. Equipment purchases to replace damaged equipment in the CTAHR Agricultural Diagnostic and Service Center has expanded CTAHR's functionality and improved efficiency of the Center. Other individual laboratories across CTAHR where equipment was replaced are back functioning at full capacity conducting needed research to support Hawaii's agricultural community.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 09/15/06 to 09/14/07
Outputs
OUTPUTS: On Saturday, October 30, 2004, a flash flood struck the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus. Seven out of 8 buildings that are home to the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) were in the direct path of the wall of water that flooded basements, damaged laboratories and instrumentation, destroyed electrical and air conditioning infrastructure and wreaked havoc on CTAHR. Damage to the University power grid, caused immediate power outages to 35 buildings across the campus. Four buildings, including CTAHR's Agricultural Sciences Building III and the Sherman Laboratory, sustained significant damage to their electrical and air conditioning infrastructure. To restore power to rest of the campus, these buildings had to be isolated from the rest of the campus electrical grid. With chemical storage rooms in the basements of most buildings, the integrity of stored reagents and solvents were uncertain. Without power, walk in freezers and freezers in labs,
including -80o freezers, containing sensitive and in some cases, irreplaceable research samples were at risk. Refrigeration and air conditioning were lost due to the power outages. Extended periods with limited power and air conditioning resulted in considerable damage to instrumentation occurred. To determine impacts of flood, Departments in CTAHR affected by the flood were asked to provide lists of damaged equipment and other requests for mitigation of the flood. Information requested were lists of damaged items, location of the item or program, a breakdown of the relative costs of replacing or mitigating the damaged to the item or program. Once the list were compiled, the administration in CTAHR, namely the Associate Dean for Instruction, Associate Dean and Associate Director for Cooperative Extension and the Associate Dean and Associate Director for Research reviewed the requests for merit.
PARTICIPANTS: Participants include the faculty and staff of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources who made assessment of the damages and worked under difficult conditions during the restoration and mitigation.
TARGET AUDIENCES: Faculty, staff, and students of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources were the beneficiary of the replacement of equipment and mitigation of flood damages. External stakeholders to CTAHR also benefited through improved research capacity in CTAHR; and improved ADSC service capability.
Impacts
Once funding was received, units were allocated funds and began the process of replacing or restoring equipment and/or programs affected by the 2004 flood. To date, approximately 90% of the funds have been expended or encumbered. Some examples of equipment replaced are the 12 plant growth chambered in the Pope Laboratory that were damaged due to the flooding; these growth chambers are now operating and are being used jointly by the Departments of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences (TPSS), Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM), Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering (MBBE) and Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences (PEPS). Also replaced were computers and servers in the CTAHR Student Computer Lab, which were damaged due to the extended periods of power outages, high temperature, and humidity in the Agricultural Sciences Building. Among other equipment replaced in the Agricultural Sciences Building were a mass spectrophotometer - gas chromatograph
for MBBE; a liquid scintillation counter for the Human Nutrition Food and Animal Sciences (HNFAS) Department , high speed refrigerated centrifuge (HNFAS); freeze dryer (MBBE); Gamma Counter (HNFAS); Flow cytometer (MBBE); ELISA plate reader (MBBE); HPLC (MBBE). Equipment, part of the CTAHR Agricultural Diagnostic and Service Center, housed in Sherman Laboratory also had to be replaced. While most of the equipment replaced in Agricultural Sciences and other CTAHR buildings was not damaged directly by the flooding, most were affected by the periods of extended power outages; the lack of air conditioning, and the resultant high humidity and the subsequent mold growth which wreaked havoc on sensitive electrical circuitry. Other equipment in other buildings were damaged similarly, not directly by the flood waters but by the aftermath of the flood. In addition to damaged equipment, tissue culture samples and cDNA collections housed in -80o freezers were lost due to extended power outages.
Funds from the grant were set aside to help replace these samples. Solvent and chemical rooms were also flooded requiring disposal of hazardous chemical. Mitigation of the damage has improved the research capacity of CTAHR by replacing aged and unrepairable equipment; has increased the College's ability to serve its student by making improvements to its computer lab and to its external stakeholders by making the Agricultural Diagnostic and Service Center functional again.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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