Project Partners & Collaborators

United States Department of Agriculture

Funding for this project was provided by the USDA Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program. The purpose of this program is to promote and strengthen the ability of Alaska Native-Serving Institutions and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions to carry out education, applied research, and related community development programs. The USDA intends this program to address educational needs, as determined by each institution, within a broadly defined arena of food and agricultural sciences-related disciplines. Priority is given to projects that enhance educational equity for under represented students; strengthen institutional educational capacities; prepare students for careers related to the food, agricultural, and natural resource systems of the United States; and maximize the development and use of resources to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs.

USDA Website: http://www.usda.gov.

Pacific Aquaculture & Coastal Resources Center

The Pacific Aquaculture & Coastal Resources Center (PACRC) is a newly-developed research and development center at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo. Its mission is to advance long-term sustainable use and conservation of coastal areas worldwide through aquaculture and resource management. The Center promotes excellence and innovation in interdisciplinary scientific research, public policy initiatives, outreach activities, and education. The PACRC is a project of the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, the County of Hawai`i, and the Keaukaha Commuity Association, with collaboration from the State of Hawai`i Aquaculture Development Program and the UH Sea Grant College Program.

PACRC Website: http://pacrc.uhh.hawaii.edu

Pacific Regional Aquaculture Information Service for Education (PRAISE)

Many of the documents contained in this website, namely those relating to ancient Hawaiian fishponds, were provided by the Pacific Regional Aquaculture Information Service for Education (PRAISE). The goal of this program, implemented under the USDA Regional Aquaculture Center Program, is to support the development of the aquaculture industry in the Pacific Region by promotion of information transfer. PRAISE is supported by the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture and staffed by personnel of the Science & Technology Reference Department of the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa's Hamilton Library. Special thanks to Kristen Anderson, Lori Ann Saeki and Mari Fujimoto for their collaboration and effort to make this project a success. For a full listing of citations provided by PRAISE, please visit http://praise.manoa.hawaii.edu/fishbib.php.

PRAISE Website: http://praise.manoa.hawaii.edu/index.php

University of Hawai`i Sea Grant College Program/NOAA

With the approval of Dr. Cengiz Ertekin, the 'Fishpond Database' portion of this site was incorporated from the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant/SOEST website on Hawaiian fishponds that was completed in 2004. This online resource, located at http://oe.soest.hawaii.edu/fishpond/, was developed by Dr. Ertekin and his research assistants Ms. Liqun Yang and Mr. Hari Sundararaghavan. Hawaiian island maps within the contributed database are courtesy of the University of Hawai'i, SOEST Illustrations Group (Brooks Bays & Nancy Hulbirt), Bob Cunnigham and Lori Glaze. The Sea Grant project was made possible in part by a grant/cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Project No. R/AQ-60 (sponsored by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, SOEST, under Institutional Grant No. NA36RG0507 Year 31 from NOAA Office of Sea Grant, Department of Commerce).

An article entitled "Fishpond Study Reveals Ancient Know-How" by M.E. Weidenbach published in Makai, Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Vol. 19, No.7, July 1997, further describes the goals of the project.

Individual Project Collaborators - Special Thanks!

Mahalo nui loa to Helen Wong Smith of the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Mookini Library for providing her expertise and assisting in the compilation of a comprehensive bibliography on traditional Hawaiian agriculture.