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Watch how Hohonu has helped adaptive and resilient communities capture and share over 2 million hours of real-time water level data in over 130 locations and 15 US states
IN THE NEWS
A market map of tech solutions for climate adaptation and resilience
"Our fundamental dependence on water in a changing climate has made managing water resources—both too much and too little of it—increasingly difficult. Flood risks are the undisputed headliner here. Companies like Fathom and First Street are rolling out solutions for better flood prediction, and Floodbase and Hohonu are among those working on flood monitoring."
August 15, 2024
Community-Led Data For Climate Response
"Hohonu has launched dozens of community projects proving this model with emergency management professionals in Maine, Washington, Hawaii, Florida, North Carolina and Texas, to name a few."
August 13, 2024
Adaptation investors are seizing the ‘unavoidable opportunity’
"That fundamental catch-22 — that the infrastructure designed to mitigate climate change is itself vulnerable to the extreme weather events that a changing climate makes worse — is at the root of the philosophy of adaptation technology. And at long last, that tech is having a moment."
August 8, 2024
Hawaii-Based Ocean Technology Empowers Communities to Fight Flooding
"The move to bring data to the public and communities marks a significant step towards better flood preparedness and resilience. As coastal communities continue to face the challenges of rising sea levels and more frequent storms, the real-time data provided by these sensors will be invaluable in informing strategies and protecting vulnerable areas."
August 6, 2024
Voltaic Powers Hohonu Sensor for Real-Time Tide Monitoring in New York Harbor
"Installation was a breeze, and Hohonu provides several data sharing options, ensuring that users can access the information they need in the way that suits them best."
August 1, 2024
New Flood Sensors Give Real-Time Data At Annapolis City Dock
"On a recent sunny morning at the Annapolis City Dock, local officials, climate scientists from the University of Maryland, and a Hawaiian company announced new steps Annapolis is taking to combat the flooding that repeatedly disrupts businesses, drivers and visitors."
June 11, 2024
"We Can't Turn Our Backs on Rising Sea Levels"
“What this provides for our first responders is more accessibility and ability to actually respond in real time, as opposed to waiting for the problem to reach the point where our residents are saying, ‘Look, we can’t even get out of our homes, or we can’t get back in our homes,'” Collins said. “We see this directly. We see the impact of what climate change is actually doing to our community.”
June 6, 2024
10 Companies to Watch: Water Tech & Industrial Decarb Software
"Hohonu is an IoT + Software company helping governments understand what the heck is happening on the coastline (collecting data to make informed decisions)."
May 22, 2024
Hohonu to Deploy Water Level Monitoring in Annapolis
"The City of Annapolis has roughly two dozen miles of coastline, nearly all of it vulnerable to the impacts of sea level rise. Gathering data at different locations around the City and around the Bay will help inform City planners of critical resiliency needs."
April 30, 2024
Hawaii-based Startup Continues to Expand Nationally
Read the latest update about CEO Brian Glazer and Hohonu's growth. "Glazer had been working with local fishponds, using sensors to help with restoration projects. As he expanded to fishponds throughout Hawaii, he realized that other coastal areas also had a need to monitor water levels in order to plan and prepare for flooding."
April 4, 2024
Tidal Arm Makes a Splash at Tabor
Tabor Academy is revolutionizing hands-on learning for students in marine and nautical science programs with the latest installation of a Hohonu tide-monitoring sensor. "In partnership with Hohonu, which leases and manages the equipment, Tabor Academy now has in-perpetuity access to this data, which is vital for ongoing research projects in computer science, climate science, and ocean modeling."
March 26, 2024
Field Observations: Real-Time Data from the March 10 Storm & Flooding in Boston
In the wake of recent storm events in Boston, the Stone Living Lab team has been hard at work gathering and analyzing data through our real-time tide monitoring sensors. "Collecting high-quality, continuous metocean time series data helps the Lab and municipal partners like the City of Boston evaluate normal, changing climate, and storm conditions in Boston Harbor, which helps inform adaptation and resilience planning."
March 11, 2024
Tide Monitoring Tutorial with Particle Monitor One
“To help navigate the waters and strategize for Wednesday night racing, I use several apps to monitor the wind and tides, so why not create one more? This exercise also gives me a chance to see how my device might align with commercial applications.” Read how Particle Monitor One created a Tide Monitor and compared their product to other companies like ours.
January 17, 2024
Bytemarks Cafe: Environmental Mitigation
CEO Brian Glazer was featured in the December 21, 2023 Podcast Episode on Bytemarks Cafe, a podcast from Hawaii Public Radio. In this episode, host Burt Lum speaks to Jacob Muise (Co-Founder of Maui Nui Venison) and Brian about their experiences with Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investing organization in climate technology for social impact.
December 21, 2023
Field Observations: Real-Time Data from the January 13 Storm & Flooding in Boston
Only three days later, Boston experienced another significant weather event on January 13, 2024. Read how Hohonu overland flooding sensors recorded data during this event, and how this storm compared to the last one.
January 16, 2024
Field Observations: Real-Time Data from the January 10 Storm and Flooding in Boston
On January 10, 2024, Boston experienced a storm resulting in flooding at Long Wharf in Downtown Boston, East Pier Drive in East Boston, and other locations. Read how Hohonu overland flooding sensors aided in capturing critical data throughout this extreme weather event.
January 11, 2024
IDEO Climate Resiliency Challenge
Hohonu was selected as a winner of the Mid-stage Innovator Award in the IDEO Climate Resiliency Challenge! "It’s time to equip our frontline communities with the knowledge and tools to anticipate, withstand, and bounce back from climate disasters like extreme weather, wildfires, and floods."
August 1, 2023
Empowered Hawaii: Navigating Climate Change
Watch Hohonu CEO Dr. Brian Glazer discuss the value of water level monitoring in this episode of KHON's Empowered Hawaii, which focuses on climate adaptation and resilience tools. Also featured are representatives from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, the National Weather Service, and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii.
July 15, 2023
2023 Pacific Business News Inno Fire Awards: Honorees in Technology, Science and Data
"Now in its second year, Pacific Inno’s Fire Awards recognize excellence in tech and innovation — including areas like food and energy independence. This includes both startups and longstanding businesses that are innovating in new ways."
July 14, 2023
Enabling Accessible Ocean Data, Technology: Earth Webinar by Triple Ring Technologies
Watch Hohonu CEO, Dr. Brian Glazer, participate in a webinar panel discussing the importance of ocean data. Also participating is an Executive Director from IOOS and Chief Scientist from Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
May 11, 2023
Critical Community-Led Data in Climate Impact Risk Reduction
"Ultimately, being able to adapt and improve, requires the capability to measure, monitor, verify, and report. Using affordable and easy to understand data, the Hohonu team hopes to provide people the chance to be resilient and help restore their properties in the face of a changing climate."
April 21, 2023
Tech startup, Hohonu, raises $1.8M to better respond and adapt to flooding and climate change on a global scale
"Hohonu’s low-cost real-time technology is currently deployed in 95 locations across the U.S., having captured over 900,000 hours of water level data across 12 coastal states."
April 4, 2023
Flooding Hawaiian fishponds get help from UH technology startup
"On the continental U.S., Hohonu has deployed 60 sensors from Florida to Maine, in California and Alaska, and throughout Hawaiʻi, working closely with local communities that are seeing effects from accelerating climate change with hyperlocal episodic flooding."
February 28, 2023
Indigenous Management Of Hawaii’s Fishponds Is Getting A High Tech Upgrade
“We have to take that understanding of what a healthy ahupua'a (watershed) looks like and take that forward, as a beacon and example.”
January 18, 2023
Maine scientists use new tools to help improve flood preparedness
"Having more measurements of water levels along the coastline is going to be hugely helpful to essentially check if our models of flooding are accurate"
November 11, 2022
Elemental Excelerator announces 11th cohort
Hawaii-based company Hohonu is part of the 11th cohort, and is focused on climate resilience, providing 24/7 water level monitoring for coastlines, rivers and streams.
November 2, 2022
Elemental Excelerator Doubles Down on Climate Tech Investments
Hohonu provides real-time environmental monitoring to inform community-level action.
The why: Rising sea levels will put $100B worth of U.S. property in jeopardy by 2050.
November 2, 2022
New UH student-run venture fund announces first investments
The venture fund’s first investment was in Hohonu, a startup that uses technology developed by UH Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology Associate Professor, Brian Glazer.
August 18, 2022
Tailored flooding data set for Fernandina Beach
You can predict the tides until the sun implodes, but pegging the water level isn’t so easy, especially in our era of accelerating climate change and sea-level rise.
April 6, 2022
UH innovators, entrepreneurs awarded for ‘re-imagining’ state’s economy
“We have a lot of potential solutions that have existed or are starting to emerge and become commonplace in other sectors, and if we now start to apply those to the climate change problem, that is a glimmer of hope for us.”
March 9, 2022
SECOORA Funds a New Water Level Network
Being on a barrier island and susceptible to tidal flooding and storm surges places the residents, businesses, and property in Fernandina Beach at great risk to the danger of rising ocean waters.
March 4, 2022
Island Innovators Of The Year: Celebrating Innovations That Help Hawai'i And Other Islands Solve A Major Problem In Communities, The Ocean Or The ʻĀina.
Dr. Brian Glazer explains that extreme weather events are generally forecast for large areas, sometimes multiple states and regions. Many small municipalities don’t have access to updated emergency flood zone mapping or effective monitoring of levies, waterways and drainage systems.
March 1, 2022
USF Scientists Keep a Watchful Eye on Water Levels in Tampa Bay
We can’t afford to continue working with the regional level of detail we have now. For us to have locally accurate storm surge and tidal flooding models that are meaningful to everyone in the Tampa Bay area, we need more data at greater resolution.
January 20, 2022
Podcast: Tracking the Tides With Tech
Coastal communities need accurate, reliable, and accessible information on tides, particularly as they confront rising sea levels and need to adapt to flooding events. But federal gauges are spread out on the U.S. coastline, which leaves extensive areas in between without precise predictions and real-world tracking of tides.
November 15, 2021
Hyper-local tidal sensors now in use along South Carolina coast
“It’s really going to help me out and my counter parts in public safety just to plan ahead a little better so we will know when to start blocking streets,” said Eric Lutz, flood plain manager at Folly Beach.
November 5, 2021
UH startup improves flood-risk management in 54 U.S. communities
Hohonu, Inc., a University of Hawaiʻi technology startup that provides environmental water level monitoring to help communities adapt to climate change, has been selected to help to expand a water-level observing network in the Southeast U.S. region.
October 18, 2021
Hawaii startup measures sea level rise for Mainland communities
Hohonu, a two-year-old Hawaii-based startup company that uses its own sensors to detect sea level rise, has been commissioned by a regional member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, to assist East Coast communities on the Mainland.
October 15, 2021
A new network of water level sensors to be deployed in the Southeast
This project will provide real-time high-resolution and high-frequency flood data that coastal communities can use to plan for and respond to flood emergencies, and design resilience and adaptation strategies for the long-term effects of sea-level rise and the projected increase in flooding.
September 27, 2021
Newly installed water level sensors can help OBX citizens prepare for flooding
These gauges provide real-time water levels at several locations that let the public and emergency management professionals know when flooding may be occurring.
September 15, 2021
Podcast: Dr. Brian Glazer, creator of new system to measure water level heights along the coast
We learn about a new system called Hohonu, which has the goal of measuring ocean, bay, or river levels in real time so we know what’s happening during storms or due to sea-level rise in general.
August 11, 2021
Emerging Technologies to Enable Affordable Ocean Observing
Meteorological data may indicate impending weather events or how observed tidal fluctuations may differ from predicted tide levels, or in the longer-term, may be a commentary on a changing climate.
March 6, 2019