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Sea Grant awards $8.1 million to strengthen community resilience nationwide
Sea Grant awards $8.1 million to strengthen community resilience nationwide February 2, 2023 (Honolulu, HI) – To build on Sea Grant’s nationwide initiatives to improve coastal community resilience, NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program recently announced two complementary initiatives ...

Science by the SEA
The University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program is excited to share with you our very first sci-art gallery titled ResilienSEA: a Celebration of Science, Education and Art at The ARTS at Marks Garage in Chinatown 1159 Nuuanu Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817. The ...

ResilienSEA
Opening Night Reception The ARTS at Mark's Garage Friday, November 4 6:00-8:00pm View the program HERE The University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program is excited to share with you our very first sci-art gallery titled ResilienSEA: a Celebration of Science, ...

Two Hawai‘i Sea Grant fellows gain hands-on policy experience in disaster management, ecosystem restoration
Two Hawai‘i Sea Grant fellows gain hands-on policy experience in disaster management, ecosystem restoration October 21, 2022 The 2022 cohort of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Grau Fellows will focus on national disaster preparedness and restoring healthy watersheds through Hawai‘i-based host ...

Resilience reports are for the birds: How the seabirds of Lalo are inspiring holistic decision-making
by Kilo Kaʻawa-Gonzales It was almost prehistoric. The whirling sky around me was full of feathers and wings as we plowed through breaking waves on an old metal landing craft that was likened, on more than one occasion, to the ...

The Limu Eater – A Cookbook of Hawaiian Seaweed
Vintage Reprint Available in October 2022 This reprint of The Limu Eater is the product of a partnership between Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo (KUA) and the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program (Hawai‘i Sea Grant), who worked collaboratively to support ...

Sneaking up on mud
by Becca Lensing In between mud sample collections, Uncle Clay Ching, of Hallelujah Hou fishing on Molokaʻi, gave us a crash course on throw net fishing on one of the largest fringing reef flats in the world. He taught us ...

Using, valuing, and caring for groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi
by Veronica GibsonGroundwater is an important resource. This is especially true on the leeward Kona coast of Hawaiʻi Island, where groundwater is the primary source of water for both humans and ecosystems. Virtually no surface runoff or perennial streams exist ...

Kūlana Noiʻi
ABOUT Place-based stewards in the Heʻeia ahupuaʻa expressed a need for a set of guidelines to help ensure that research projects focused in Heʻeia engage in equitable and reciprocal partnership with those connected to and caring for the ahupuaʻa. In response to ...

ʻAha ʻIke Pāpālua – 2020 Report
In January 2020, we came together in a visioning ʻAha - to assemble around the questions of who, what, and why our Sea Grant Center of Excellence should focus its time, energy, and efforts. In this period of change, the ...