Greg L. Bruland
Associate Professor
Soil and Water Conservation
Coastal and Wetland Ecology and Management
Office: Sherman 223
Phone: (808) 956-8901
Fax: (808) 956-6539
E-mail: bruland@hawaii.edu
Website: www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/brulandg/
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
CTAHR Faculty Research Portfolio 2009
Preventing Degradation of Hawai‘i’s Watersheds with New Technologies and Mauka to Makai Linkages by Greg Bruland, Assistant Professor, NREM (CTAHR Research News, May 08)
Education
Ph.D. Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences,
Duke University
B.S. Principia College, Major: Environmental Chemistry, Minor: Biology
Courses Taught
- NREM 612 Degradation of Human-Dominated Ecosystems
- NREM 499 Undergraduate Independent Study
- NREM 461 Soil and Water Conservation
- NREM 301/301L Natural Resource and Environmental Management
Research/Extension Interests
My research interests include soil and water conservation, watershed management, land-based threats to coastal ecosystems, wetland ecology, and biogeochemistry. I am interested in finding ways to better manage tropical watersheds and to protect costal zones from the effects of agricultural activity, urbanization, and road construction. I believe that the best environmental solutions will be found through using integrated, spatially-explicit research which takes advantage of the latest developments in global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), geostatistics, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS). These technologies allow for research over larger scales and with greater resolution than has been previously possible. Thus, they will help us characterize the status and degradation of soil and water quality at the watershed scale, while also giving growers, landowners, managers, environmental economists, and scientists powerful methods to identify critical source areas of nutrient, pesticide, and sediment loss as well as optimal sites for best management practice implementation, remediation, and restoration.