HIGP researchers, Nicole Lautze and Donald Thomas, led the creation of this resource center to organize and publicly disseminate data on Hawaiʻi’s groundwater and geothermal resources from private and public agencies and organizations.
The virtual center features:
- A geothermal collection containing more than 1,000 geothermal-relevant documents.
- The Hawaiʻi State Water Wells data for the water wells in Hawaiʻi (e.g. name, location, type and depth) via an interactive map, with downloadable water well files.
- Historical photographs, slides and newspaper articles.
- Coming soon: A probability map which indicates the likelihood of encountering a subsurface geothermal resource compiled from the Department of Energy’s Play Fairway project.
- Coming soon: Humuʻulu Groundwater Research project daily updates, available when the drilling commences on the second 2 km deep hole in the saddle region of the island of Hawaiʻi.