Alumni News

Even before COVID-19, an alarming number of UH Mānoa students were regularly suffering from food insecurity and downright hunger. Joannie Dobbs, then-faculty of CTAHR’s Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, brought this problem to the attention of the Associated Students of UH, which partnered up with other campus groups.

If you haven’t been by lately, the COVID-19 Resources for Hawai‘i page compiled by Extension agent Nancy Ooki has added a whole lot of new resources that can help you…and your clients and stakeholders.

It’s broken up into categories such as Food Safety and Sourcing, Plants and Agriculture, Human Health, and more. Each is replete with critical, science-backed information that ranges from the Hawai‘i based, like local farm food-safety guidelines, to the global, like the CDC’s recommendations for keeping your pet safe from the virus.

Check it out, share the link with those it can help…and keep sending Nancy resources to add! Just email her at ooki@hawaii.edu.

Tilling the soil before you plant can be difficult, especially if the land is rocky or paved over. But don’t let that stop you from growing vegetables! Soil-less agriculture is an alternative that requires less physical effort and uses less space. Two good examples are hydroponics and aquaponics. But which one better suits you? That depends on your preference for dealing with soluble fertilizer or live fish.

Natural Resources and Environmental Management graduate students from fields related to science, conservation, management, public policy, planning, or law of marine and/or coastal resources may want to look into Hawai‘i Sea Grant’s Grau Fellowship, which provides a unique degree-to-work experience to post-graduate students who have an interest in management and policy decisions affecting Hawai‘i’s ocean and coastal resources.