{"id":163671,"date":"2022-08-17T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=163671"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:30:57","slug":"place-based-oceanography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/17\/place-based-oceanography\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> community college students experience place-based oceanography"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Two Mauka to Makai students with fish specimen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To foster a transfer pathway from the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Colleges<\/a> to geoscience degree programs at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, with a focus on Native Hawaiian and other underrepresented students, the six-week course “Mauka to Makai” was offered to engage students in a place-based oceanography curriculum grounded in Native Hawaiian values.<\/p>\n

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2022 Mauka to Makai students and instructors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Through the Department of Oceanography<\/a>, 10 UH<\/abbr> community college students shared the ʻike<\/span> (knowledge) they gained through the course during the Summer Bridge Hōʻike<\/span> (exhibit).<\/p>\n

The course is part of the National Science Foundation project “Halau Ola Honua, Our Living World”—a statewide collaboration among Windward Community College<\/a>, UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, Honolulu CC<\/abbr><\/a> and Kauaʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Immersed in the natural environment<\/h2>\n

In addition to traditional lectures and laboratories, the students engaged in mālama ʻāina<\/span> (stewardship of natural\/cultural resources) as well as independent research.<\/p>\n

“Our students utilized contemporary instrument observations to characterize the chemical, physical and biological properties of two ahupuaʻa<\/span> and nearshore areas,” said Rosie Alegado<\/strong>, co-principal investigator of the program and associate professor in UH<\/abbr> Mānoa\u2019s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> (SOEST<\/abbr>) oceanography and UH<\/abbr> Sea Grant College Program<\/a>. “They analyzed and developed independent projects around these data and shared their findings at the Hōʻike.<\/span> This created an opportunity for students to have an authentic research experience that connected cultural heritage, scientific investigation and human impacts on a watershed.”<\/p>\n

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Student ready to sample stream water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Funded as part of an award from the National Science Foundation Tribal Colleges and Universities Program, this approach provides hands-on learning, wherein the students are immersed in the natural environment. A unique aspect of the course is its connection with community groups involved in the preservation and restoration of traditional Hawaiian resource management practices in watersheds and coastal waters of Oʻahu.<\/span><\/p>\n

Creating lifelong knowledge, connection<\/h2>\n

During the Hōʻike,<\/span> Michael Guidry<\/strong>, program co-investigator and chair of the SOEST<\/abbr> Global Environmental Sciences<\/a> program, shared that the instructor team—Alegado, UH<\/abbr> Mānoa graduate student Kuʻi<\/span> Keliipuleole and Leeward CC<\/abbr><\/a> instructor Donn Viviani<\/strong>—put forth a phenomenal effort to make this a success. The students completed the course with new knowledge, lifelong connections and a network of scientists, cultural practitioners and community groups, he added.<\/p>\n

“Our Mauka to Makai summer oceanography program was offered in 2018, 2019 and 2022,” said Margaret McManus<\/strong>, program co-investigator, professor and chairwoman of the SOEST<\/abbr> Department of Oceanography. “I am so pleased to see several students from our 2018 and 2019 programs continuing their education in geoscience degree programs at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa. We hope that students from our 2022 class will also join us in the future!”<\/p>\n

“Historically, Native Hawaiians and other ethnic minority groups, including Pacific Islanders, Filipinos, Hispanics, African Americans and Native Americans, have been underrepresented at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in SOEST<\/abbr>,” said Alegado. “Our goal is that efforts like this will nurture Â鶹´«Ã½\u2019s<\/span> local talent so that kamaʻāina<\/span> students will be empowered to become the leaders we need to face the challenges ahead.”<\/p>\n

–By Marcie Grabowski<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The oceanography course, “Mauka to Makai,” is a statewide collaboration among Windward CC<\/abbr>, UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, Honolulu CC<\/abbr> and Kauaʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[62,64,65,1466,1465,1314,107,92,635,73,9,438,66],"class_list":["post-163671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-native-hawaiian-place-of-learning","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-oceanography","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-sea-grant-college-program","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-sea-grant","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163671"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163706,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163671\/revisions\/163706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}