KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—March 18, 2015—Monk Seal 101, a free training session for new volunteers, will be offered from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in Kailua-Kona by the West Hawai‘i Marine Mammal Response Network, which is currently recruiting volunteers.
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KAILUA-KONA, Hawai‘i—February 2, 2015—The 2015 Nahelehele Dryland Forest Symposium will highlight dryland forest ecology and restoration efforts in Hawai‘i. The symposium will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, February 27, at the Courtyard King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel in Kailua-Kona.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 21, 2015—FoodCorps is currently recruiting service members throughout Hawai‘i who are passionate about teaching children what healthy food is, where it comes from, and expanding hands-on nutrition education programs. The deadline to apply for the 2015–2016 school year is March 31.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 20, 2015—The Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2015–16 academic year. More information and application materials are available online at https://kohalacenter.org/mellon-hawaii. The application deadline is February 24.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 13, 2015—The Kohala Center has announced the appointment of Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Ph.D. as its next president and chief executive officer. Beamer will succeed Matthews Hamabata, Ph.D., who is retiring after serving as the organization’s president and CEO since its founding in 2000.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 12, 2015—The Kohala Center is calling upon community members to assist with environmental restoration at Keokea Beach Park and the community of Niuli‘i in North Kohala in the wake of a powerful storm that brought heavy winds and flooding to the Hawaiian Islands earlier this month.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 6, 2015—The Kohala Center recently received a federal Farm to School grant to support the increase of locally produced foods for Hawai‘i schools and to increase support for school gardens and farms statewide through curriculum development that connects core standards with garden-based education.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 5, 2015—Join Kahalu‘u Bay Education Center turtle biologist Rachel Silverman once a month to “talk story” about honu (Hawaiian green sea turtles). Learn about the types of turtles found in Hawai‘i, why they are important to Hawai‘i’s ecosystems, what threats they face, and how you can help to protect them.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—January 5, 2015—The Kohala Center has received a grant from the Health Impact Project to study the potential health impacts of proposed regulations associated with a community-managed fishery policy for the Hawaiian Native Mo‘omomi Community- Based Subsistence Fishing Area on the north shore of Moloka‘i.
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KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—December 29, 2014—The Kohala Center, in conjunction with Kealapono, LLC, is holding listening sessions in the Hamakua district between January 5 and 8 to explore the need for Internet services at broadband speeds in the area.
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