{"id":52511,"date":"2016-11-03T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=52511"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:08:00","slug":"chad-kalepa-baybayan-part-of-hokulea-team-nominated-for-national-geographic-adventurers-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/03\/chad-kalepa-baybayan-part-of-hokulea-team-nominated-for-national-geographic-adventurers-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Kalepa Baybayan part of H\u014dk\u016ble\u2018a team nominated for National Geographic Adventurers of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Voting is open to support members of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> ʻohana<\/span> as National Geographic’s<\/em> 2017 Adventurers of the Year<\/a>. The recognition is for extraordinary achievements in exploration, adventure sports, conservation or humanitarianism. <\/p>\n

Among this year’s nominees is The Hōkūleʻa<\/span> Team<\/a>, comprised of celestial circumnavigators such as the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Nainoa Thompson<\/a>, a former University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> regent, and UH<\/abbr> Hilo’s Imiloa Astronomy Center<\/a> Navigator-in-Residence Chad Kalepa Baybayan<\/strong><\/a>. The team is currently on a four-year journey across large swaths of oceans in the famed Hōkūleʻa<\/span> voyaging canoe guided only by the stars and the belief that Polynesian culture should not be lost to the wake of modernization. In the process, they ignited a cultural restoration in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and taught a new generation of adventurers how to navigate by the stars. Thompson was also a 2016 recipient of the National Geographic Society’s most prestigious award, the Hubbard medal.<\/p>\n