My MA thesis, titled Laboratory to Landscape: Mycorestoration, was a collaborative project designed to consider the social, political, and technological dimensions of implementing mycorestoration on community-scales. Mycorestoration is the context-specific process of partnering with decomposer fungi to heal contaminated land and water-scapes. Expanding on this process and these ideas, my dissertation research seeks to understand the potential for a multi-kingdom, biorestoration approach to addressing the contamination of the primary freshwater aquifer on Oʻahu. Multiple types of jet-fuel and forever chemicals continue to leak from the US Navy’s WWII era Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. The primary goal of this project is to unveil the political and technological dimensions of remediating the Moanalua-Waimalu aquifer. Ola i ka wai! Water is life!
Sanae Hartmann
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328 Walker
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Graduate Student (Ph.D.)
Unit
Department of Geography
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