{"id":70746,"date":"2017-11-16T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=70746"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:12:55","slug":"oceanic-wayfinding-at-maunakea-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/16\/oceanic-wayfinding-at-maunakea-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea voyaging and oceanic wayfinding at the Maunakea Speaker Series"},"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_70771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70771\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hilo-maunakea-speaker-baybayan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hilo-maunakea-speaker-baybayan.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/hilo-maunakea-speaker-baybayan-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">K\u0101lepa Baybayan. Photo credit: Polynesian Voyaging Society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokulea.com\/crewmember\/kalepa-baybayan\/\">K\u0101lepa Baybayan<\/a>, navigator in residence at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imiloahawaii.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> Astronomy Center of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a>, will be the featured presenter at the <a href=\"http:\/\/malamamaunakea.org\/calendar\/61\/92-He-Lani-Ko-Luna-A-Sky-Above-In-losing-the-sight-of-land-you-discover-the-stars\">Maunakea Speaker Series<\/a> on November 30, 7 p.m. at the University of Hilo Wentworth Hall #1 auditorium. Baybayan will share his knowledge of deep-sea voyaging and oceanic wayfinding, the indigenous system of orientation and navigation at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Baybayan will also discuss the recently completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokulea.com\/worldwide-voyage\/\">Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage<\/a> and the epic journey of the iconic double-hulled sailing canoe, <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span>, which traveled 42,000 nautical miles over 3 years, visiting 150 ports in more than 20 countries, while training a new generation of navigators, educators, scientists and community stewards.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Lahaina, Maui, Baybayan first sailed on <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> in 1975 and has sailed on all major <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> voyages since. K\u0101lepa has served as captain on <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> as well as the voyaging canoes <span aria-label=\"Hawaiiloa\">Hawai&#699;iloa<\/span> and <span aria-label=\"H\u014dk\u016balakai\">H\u014dk\u016balaka&#699;i<\/span>. He was the site director of Honuakai, the Exploration Sciences Division of the <span aria-label=\"Aha\">&#699;Aha<\/span> Punana Leo Inc. He currently serves as the navigator in residence at the <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> Astronomy Center developing wayfinding activities, curriculum materials and conducting outreach.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Kalepa was initiated into the order of Pwo, a society of deep-sea navigators in Micronesia, along with four other <span aria-label=\"Hokulea\">H\u014dk\u016ble&#699;a<\/span> navigators by their teacher Mau Piailug on the island of Satawal.<\/p>\n<p>The Maunakea Speaker Series is free and open to the public. On-campus parking is open and available without charge after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1101336625199&#038;ca=7d3ee9eb-57f0-40ef-b04c-f39df03b320a\">speaker series website<\/a> or call (808) 933-0734.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u0101lepa Baybayan, navigator in residence at the <span aria-label=\"Imiloa\">&#699;Imiloa<\/span> Astronomy Center, will share his knowledge of the indigenous system of orientation and navigation at sea.<\/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":[292,659,305,14],"class_list":["post-70746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-imiloa-astronomy-center","tag-maunakea","tag-office-of-mauna-kea-management","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746","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=70746"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74443,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70746\/revisions\/74443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}