{"id":46787,"date":"2016-06-07T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=46787"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T00:19:19","slug":"hokulea-crew-in-new-york-for-education-and-environmental-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/07\/hokulea-crew-in-new-york-for-education-and-environmental-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u014dk\u016ble\u02bba crew participates in New York education and environmental summit"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_46798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46798\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/system-hokulea-newyork.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/system-hokulea-newyork.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/system-hokulea-newyork-260x149.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Billion Oyster Project presentation. Photo courtesy of <span aria-label=\"oiwi\">&#699;&#332;iwi<\/span> <abbr title=\"television\">TV<\/abbr><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Crewmembers aboard the <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H&#333;k&#363;le&#699;a<\/span>, including University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/admin\/executives\/president.html\"><strong>David Lassner<\/strong><\/a>, continued their community outreach through the New York Education and Environment Summit on June 6. The crew was joined by educators and community members from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and New York.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ECRSCHq6ex8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>糖心Vlog官方 News video<\/strong>: <em>Polynesian Voyaging Society<br \/> and <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> celebrate partnership in nation&#8217;s capital<\/em>,<br \/> May 27, 2016\n<\/div>\n<p>The summit was held on Governors Island, where the delegation was received by the Trust for Governors Island, the National Park Service, New York Harbor School and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billionoysterproject.org\/about\/\">Billion Oyster Project<\/a>. The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> delegation included Lassner, Kanu o Ka <span aria-label=\"Aina\">&#699;&#256;ina<\/span> and Ka Waihona o Ka <span aria-label=\"Naauao\">Na&#699;auao<\/span> charter schools&#8217; administrators and students and representatives and students from Kamehameha Schools. Honolulu City and County Mayor Kirk Caldwell was also present for the discussions that centered on sustainability and protection of the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Nainoa Thompson, president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokulea.com\/\">Polynesian Voyaging Society<\/a>, spoke on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokulea.com\/worldwide-voyage\/\">M&#257;lama Honua Worldwide Voyage<\/a> and its connections with the Billion Oyster Project&#8212;a <abbr title=\"Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr>-based initiative aimed at restoring one billion live oysters in the New York Harbor. After the morning&#8217;s presentations and discussions, the New York Harbor School conducted tours of the facilities. <\/p>\n<p>The outreach continued June 7 with a presentation by master navigator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokulea.com\/crewmember\/kalepa-baybayan\/\">Kalepa Baybayan<\/a><\/strong> on behalf of the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imiloahawaii.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> Astronomy Center<\/a> at Hayden Planetarium at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnh.org\/\">American Museum of Natural History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Babayan is one of many educators taking the science of navigation around the world and returning to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> with a wealth of new experiences. He told <span aria-label=\"oiwi\">&#699;&#332;iwi<\/span> <abbr>TV<\/abbr>, &ldquo;It&#8217;s about building the depth of experience so that I can continue to tell the great stories and inspire all people, not just the generations to come, but to inspire all people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about Babayan: <a href=\"http:\/\/oiwi.tv\/hokulea\/imiloa-the-science-of-navigating\/\"><span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span>: The Science of Navigating by <span aria-label=\"oiwi\">&#699;&#332;iwi<\/span> <abbr>TV<\/abbr><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<em>From a Polynesian Voyaging Society news release<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Hawai&#699;i continues outreach partnership with the Polynesian Voyaging Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[292,1012,394,14,947,56],"class_list":["post-46787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-imiloa-astronomy-center","tag-malama-honua","tag-presidents-office","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46787","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=46787"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84864,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46787\/revisions\/84864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}