Traditional practices
Growing Loli in Hawaiʻi
A manual for growing loli or sea cucumber in Hawaiʻi. This publication is a result of a collaboration between Kauaʻi Sea Farm, Pacific American Foundation and Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, funded by a 2021 Saltonstall-Kennedy award. https://online.fliphtml5.com/rblc/widj/#p=1 ...
Nerd Nite Honolulu December 2025
Nerd Nite Honolulu and Hawaiʻi Sea Grant invite you to the last Nerd Nite of 2025 on December 2, 2025! Location: Anna O'Brien's (2440 S Berentania St. Honolulu, HI 96826). Street parking only. Fee: Free for 21 and older Time: ...
Developing an ecosystem-based monitoring program for adaptive management of Kalou lo‘i and loko wai
Research Projects 2024-2026 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Carmella Vizza Sea Grant Graduate Fellow: Adrian Dougherty Research Track: Aquaculture Wetland restoration efforts in Hawaiʻi exist at the unique interface of traditional Hawaiian practices, conservation, agriculture, and aquaculture. These efforts involve enlarging endangered Hawaiian ...
Harnessing local fisher knowledge to test hypotheses for estuarine fisheries decline and develop strategies for management and restoration in Hawaiʻi
Research Projects 2024-2026 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Robert Toonen Sea Grant Graduate Fellow: Nākoa Goo Research Track: Aquaculture Hawaiian fishponds, or loko iʻa, are generally considered the most advanced of ancient aquaculture systems. By mimicking and enhancing ordinary processes, a strategy called ...
The development of acclimation-based rearing strategies to optimize survival and growth in amaʻama or striped mullet, Mugil cephalus
Research Projects 2024-2026 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Andre Seale Sea Grant Graduate Fellow: Reilly Merlo Research Track: Aquaculture Efforts to revitalize traditional Hawaiian fishponds aim to increase sustainable seafood generation and reduce Hawaiʻi’s reliance on importation. However, fish propagation has encountered challenges ...
Effects of loko iʻa (fishpond) restoration on ecosystem dynamics in Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi
Research Projects 2024-2026 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Lisa McManus Co-INVESTIGATORS: Elizabeth Madin, Yoshimi Rii, Kawika Winter, Anne Innes-Gold Research Track: Aquaculture Loko i‘a (traditional Hawaiian fishponds) once played a large role in an integrated agroecology system. Historically, loko i‘a were used to ...
Evaluating the resilience of rocky intertidal ecosystems to sea-level rise
Research Projects 2024-2026 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Haunani Kane Co-INVESTIGATORS: Atsuko Fukunaga, John Burns, Kainalu Steward PI-CASC Graduate Scholar: Makoa Pascoe Research Track: Island Resilience and Sustainability Robust intertidal ecosystems buoy connection to place through subsistence gathering and restoration of traditional food ...
Building resilient coastal forests through enhancing biocultural research and career pathways
Research Projects 2024-2026 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Leah Bremer Co-INVESTIGATORS: Tamara Ticktin, Kiana Frank, Zoe Hastings Silao PI-CASC Graduate Scholar: Sebastian Church Research Track: Island Resilience and Sustainability Well-managed coastal forests, including agroforests, provide important adaptation benefits, including erosion control, flood mitigation, ...
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 ...
