Hal Richman, PhD, is an IT specialist at Hawaiʻi Sea Grant who joined the program in 2001. Initially, he worked to document the products of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant’s research and extension programs. He also introduced the use of an on-line proposal submission software called Webnibus that was initially developed by Oregon State Sea Grant. Since that time, he worked to merge this software with the tracking of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant research and extension programs and the documentation of their products. This led to the development of an application, eProjects, a web interface database system to integrate and manage these tasks.

Hal earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology and a master’s in zoology and computer science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a doctorate in endocrinology from the University of California at Berkeley.