The University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program

1. E. Gordon Grau School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawai‘i The University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program

2. OUR MISSION: To support an innovative program of research, education and extension services, directed to the improved understanding and stewardship of coastal and marine resources of the state, region, and nation.

3. University of Hawai‘iSea Grant College Program • Part of a network of 32 university–based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes state, and in Puerto Rico • Based on the Land Grant model • Faculty throughout Hawaii and American Samoa (located at UH Hilo and CC’s, and at State and local Agencies)

4. What We Do? • Identify and address issues and opportunities • Connect NOAA to the University Expertise • Connect Coastal Communities to University and Partner Resources • Build partnerships to address challenges, exploit opportunities and increase capacity

5. Research Results Education Extension How Do We Do It • SOEST • The University of Hawaii • NOAA • The State of Hawai‘i • The Pacific Region • The Community

6. Underlying Themes • Excellence in research • Excellence in education • Service to the university and the community • Capacity building and stewardship • Relevance to the culture and condition of Hawaii • Program elements leverage and synergize one another • Partnerships • Utilize and leverage the resources of the National Sea Grant Network and NOAA • National leadership • Link Hawaii to the Pacific region

7. Focus Areas • Sustainable Safe Seafood Supply • Sustainable Coastal Development • Healthy Coastal Ecosystems • Coastal Hazard Resiliency Cross-Cutting Themes • Globalization • Climate Change Impacts • Coastal and Ocean Literacy • Decision-Making Capacity

8. Sea Grant and SOEST • A face of SOEST in the community • Provides valued outreach • Applies SOEST scholarship toward addressing community challenges, needs and opportunities • Builds SOEST partnerships • Within SOEST • Across the campus and the University • With government • In the community • Throughout the Pacific • Supports graduate education

9. Imported food and energy • Resource depletion (water and inshore fisheries) • Waste and pollution • Habitat destruction The Gift and the Challenge • Imported food and energy • Resource depletion (water and inshore fisheries) • Waste and pollution • Habitat destruction • Climate change and its consequences

10. Generational Responsibility "Then I say the earth belongs to each . . . generation…no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.“ Thomas Jefferson (1789) "The nation behaves well if it treats resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, not impaired in value." Theodore Roosevelt (1910)

11. The Ahupua’a Sun, water, gravity, and fertility of the land and sea Manoa Valley, 1865 Enoch Wood Perry

12. The Ahupua‘a Built on a watershed model, it was the economic, cultural, governmental and resource management unit of pre-contact Hawai‘i that supported ~600 thousand people.

13. Honolulu, 1990’s • The people of Hawai‘i are using freshwater, energy, fisheries and other resources at rates and in ways that impair them for future generations and alter biological communities in coastal marine ecosystems. • In Hawai‘i, the economy is the environment

14. Sustainable Coastal Development • Decades of population migration to the coast have transformed our coastal landscapes and greatly intensified demand on finite coastal resources • Development impacts coastal water quality, water supply, traditional coastal businesses, traditional culture and way of life • The great majority of problems that occur in coastal waters results from what we do on land

15. Sustainable Coastal Development Sea Grant is uniquely positioned along our nation’s coasts to provide research, education and outreach to empower the development of healthy coastal communities that are: • economically and socially inclusive • supported by vibrant economies • function within the carrying capacity of their ecosystems. 

16. Center for Smart Building and Community Design • A Sea Grant-led partnership among the UH School of Architecture, the Travel Industry Management School, the College of Engineering and Department of Urban and Regional Planning (and School of Law) • How we develop land and construct buildings has a great impact on ecosystems on both sides of the shoreline • Mission: To support the development of economically vibrant, attractive communities that enhance their environment, economy, culture and quality of life

17. Ahupua’a Restoration Partners: Coastal Zone Management, Waipa Foundation, Hawaiian Farmers of Hanalei, Kamehameha Schools, Kauai Community College, U.S.F.W.S.

18. Aloha and Mahalo