Sustainability

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 ...

Three graduates from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in prestigious marine policy fellowship in Washington, D.C.
July 20, 2023 (Honolulu, HI) – Three graduate students from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Gina Selig, Sarah Tucker, and Emily Young, are spending one year focusing on critical marine policy issues in Washington, D.C. representing the University ...

Hawai‘i Sea Grant partners with Hawai‘i State Energy Office to advance energy transitions in remote communities
Staff from the Hawai‘i State Energy Office Clean Energy Wayfinders program share information on energy conservation and clean energy adoption with Hawai‘i’s schools and communities. (Honolulu, HI) – For island and remote communities in the United States, developing resilient electricity ...

Centering Indigenous knowledge to advance water research
(Honolulu, HI) – The Land Back movement has called for global solidarity to address the oppression and dispossession of Indigenous Peoples’ lands and territories. The alienation of Indigenous Peoples from Water has largely been absent from this call to action ...

Students work on a net zero energy initiative for the UH Manoa campus
Student research assistants study energy consumption patterns of the UH Manoa Campus Sea Grant has teamed up with the UH Office of Sustainability to manage a vast quantity of electricity metering data while also training and educating students. Students have ...