Community Resilience
Sea-level rise viewer now available in American Samoa
(Honolulu, HI) – A new interactive sea-level rise viewer for the Territory of American Samoa was recently released to the public, enabling the community to visualize how the shoreline is likely to change from coastal flooding, sea-level rise, hurricane storm surge, and ...
Biden-Harris Administration Makes Over $2.1 Million Grant Investments in Innovative Reuse and Refill Program in Hilo, Hawai’i
Biden-Harris Administration Makes Over $2.1 Million Grant Investments in Innovative Reuse and Refill Program in Hilo, Hawai'i Project to protect public health, replace single-use plastics, and reduce marine debris (Hilo, HI) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrated the ...
UH researchers investigate nearshore water quality, reef health after Maui fires
UH researchers investigate nearshore water quality, reef health after Maui fires (Honolulu, HI) – A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are sampling West Maui reefs to assess the impact from the toxic ash from the ...
New user-friendly aquaculture permitting website launched
(Honolulu, HI) – Anyone interested in operating an aquaculture business in Hawai‘i now has a user-friendly, easy-to-use website outlining the federal, state, and county permits and major requirements. The website, available on the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program ...
NOAA Sea Grant projects provide $3.3M in support of seafood industry workforce development
(Honolulu, HI) – Nationwide, NOAA Sea Grant awarded $3.3M aimed at bolstering workforce development efforts in both the wild-caught fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program (Hawai‘i Sea Grant) was awarded $400,000 to enhance and promote aquaculture workforce development ...
Four Hawai‘i Sea Grant fellows gain hands-on policy experience in climate resilience, marine resource management
L-R: John Graves (Division of Aquatic Resources), Madeline Krueger (Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency), Claire Rossi de Leon (Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency), Hoaka Thomas (Division of Aquatic Resources) (Honolulu, HI) – Four postgraduate ...
Selected list of resources to assist in fire recovery efforts on Maui
County of Maui Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram for real-time updates County of Maui website County Emergency Shelters: Hannibal Tavares Community Center War Memorial Gym Maui High School Maui Preparatory Academy King’s Cathedral Maui The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
Looking to the past to understand the future of Ke Awa Lau o Pu‘uloa
The boundary zone of the NASA Equity and Environmental Justice Program project and ArcGIS map of Pu'uloa New study funded by NASA to assess threats to human health and the environment (Honolulu, HI) – NASA’s Equity and Environmental Justice ...
Ka Pili Kai Kau 2023
Click on the cover image to view the full issue. On the Cover Welcome to our latest issue, dedicated to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Through this initiative, the world's attention is focused on the ...
Best practices for place-based research in Hawai‘i featured in new book
Best practices for place-based research in Hawai‘i featured in new book (Honolulu, HI) – A new book titled Ignite: A Decolonial Approach to Higher Education Through Space, Place and Culture that looks closely at the role of colonization on the ...
