Renee O. Setter

Renee O. Setter

PhD Candidate

I am a PhD candidate in the Geography and Environment department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a research focus in projected effects of climate change. My dissertation centers on projected impacts of climate change on coral reefs. I have also conducted research on the influence of climate change on diseases, rainbows, whales, bogs, and managed retreat strategies. I am a student in the Mora Lab and a graduate researcher at the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience.

Interests: climate change, GIS, big data analysis, climate models, marine ecology, coral reefs

Projects

High-Elevation Tropical Bogs in progress

Climate trajectory of tropical freshwater peatland: carbon hotspots

R Python CMIP6 WorldClim

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Managed Retreat 2023

Costs and tradeoffs of managed retreat strategies under projected sea level rise in Hawaiʻi

R ArcGIS Pro Python

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Rainbow Occurrence 2022

Current and projected distribution of rainbow occurrence

R CMIP6

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Humpback Whale Breeding Grounds 2022

Downscaled projected temperatures at humpback whale breeding grounds

R CMIP6 downscale

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Co-occurring Stressors on Coral Reefs 2022

Projected environmental suitability under multiple stressors for coral reefs

R CMIP6 ArcGIS Pro

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