{"id":28527,"date":"2014-10-20T11:17:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=28527"},"modified":"2021-10-22T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:26:55","slug":"darren-lerner-named-uh-sea-grant-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/20\/darren-lerner-named-uh-sea-grant-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Lerner named <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Sea Grant director"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_28543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28543\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lerner-d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"361\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lerner-d.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lerner-d-180x260.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darren T. Lerner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Darren T. Lerner<\/strong> has been named the new director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Sea Grant College Program<\/a> and interim director of the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrrc.hawaii.edu\/index.shtml\">Water Resources Research Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lerner takes over the helm from <strong>E. Gordon Grau<\/strong> who served as director for nearly 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>In his new position, Lerner will lead and serve the program&#8217;s scholarly and creative faculty, staff and partners in successfully moving <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Sea Grant forward to face the challenges as well as embrace the many opportunities that lie ahead. The unique environment in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and the Pacific region are already changing under the influence of rising ocean levels, coastal erosion, invasive species, increasing land-use and development, pollution and surging populations, to name a few. Lerner is well qualified to assist in addressing these daunting challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dr. Lerner brings the experience and vision that will move our program to the next level,&rdquo; said Grau. &ldquo;He also brings the skills and passion that will allow us to serve the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> in building a safe and sustainable future for our descendants while thriving within the capacity of our habitats and ecosystems.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>About Lerner<\/h2>\n<p>Lerner earned his bachelor&#8217;s degree in political science and psychology from the <a href=\"http:\/\/missouri.edu\/\">University of Missouri<\/a>, Columbia; a master&#8217;s degree in zoology from <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/\">Oregon State University<\/a> and a <abbr>PhD<\/abbr> in organismic and evolutionary biology from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/\">University of Massachusetts<\/a>, Amherst.<\/p>\n<p>Following a <abbr>USDA<\/abbr> sponsored postdoctoral fellowship, Lerner was appointed as affiliate research faculty at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/himb\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Institute of Marine Biology<\/a>, where he conducts a research program focused on the environmental physiology of fishes with an emphasis on the impact of environmental contaminants on fish growth, physiology and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6807\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Sea Grant news release<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Cindy Knapman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Lerner appointed <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Sea Grant College Program director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28,29],"tags":[92,9,438,347],"class_list":["post-28527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","category-people","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-sea-grant","tag-water-resources-research-center","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527","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=28527"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150348,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions\/150348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}