Thor Seraphin is a digital media outreach specialist with the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program, working with a range of groups that include the people, institutions, and organizations that partner with Hawaiʻi Sea Grant. Thor creates Hawaiʻi Sea Grant promotional video messaging, including public service announcements, and advises Hawaiʻi Sea Grant staff with media products. Through the regional and online television series, Voice of the Sea, he brings awareness and public engagement opportunities to Hawaiʻi Sea Grant’s mission, work, and messaging, partnering with television stations across the Pacific to air the series. He develops episodes, from concept to creation, as well as promotional and online content, and arranges for archiving and broadcasting of all material. An estimated audience of 25,000 people watch Voice of the Sea across Hawaiʻi weekly, with thousands more views in nations across the Pacific.

Thor has been making national and regional television in Hawaiʻi for over 25 years. He co-created Voice of the Sea in 2011, in collaboration with the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Assistant Director for Education, Kanesa Seraphin. Together they have created over 125 original episodes of the half-hour series, which has reached millions of viewers across Hawaiʻi and beyond, and won 40 Telly awards (and counting). Thor has been collaborating with Hawaiʻi Sea Grant since he began making sea-level rise and coastal hazards media in the early 2000s; he joined Hawaiʻi Sea Grant full-time in 2023.