Beverly Kawamura is elementary science teacher at Salt Lake Elementary School for grades K-6 and teacher for the gifted and talented(a.k.a. research and development) for grades 4-6. Her school has developed the Salt Lake Water Project in partnership with the Hawaii State Department of Health, Clean Water Branch and the Honolulu Country Club, the locale of Salt Lake. The goal of this schoolwide and community outreach program called The Salt Lake Water Project addresses prevention and monitoring the effects of nonpoint source pollution of the Salt Lake Watershed Ecosystem. Aside from teaching she and her husband are vegetarians who enjoy experimenting with different fish, vegetable and low fat/ non fat dessert recipes. Beverly enjoys jogging as a time for solitude and training for the Honolulu Marathon which she has completed twice thanks to the grace of God.

Through the environmental institute I learned of the Hawaii-Princeton Connection in regards to the basic greenhouse warming picture. Thanks to the lectures and assistance from Dr. Wetherald I learned about 40 years ago, Dr. Charles D. Keeling and his colleagues initiated measurements of CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa Observatory on the island of Hawaii. His research work and those of GFDL during the middle 1970's was responsible for elevating the global warming theory "from science fiction to science." Basically his data showed that CO2 concentrations, taken both at Mauna Loa and a station in the Antarctic, were rising and rising at a consistent rate. According to Dr. Wetherald, "this data coupled with our first GCM study (Manabe and Wetherald, 1975; Journal of Atmosphere Science) indicated how the earth's atmosphere might, theoretically, respond to this increase of CO2. These two studies, apparently initiated global warming studies in research laboratories all over this country and, eventually, the world."

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