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Sustainability for High School Students
An environmental summer program for high school students launched by Windward Professors David Krupp and Floyd McCoy received a grant of $85,000 from the Harold K.L Castle Foundation.
Students in the summer program are offered the opportunity to participate in an integrated mix of conventional lectures, hands-on laboratory exercises, outdoor field exercises, field trips, research projects and stewardship activities. The program broadens their understanding of watersheds and coral reef ecosystems, introduces them to pioneering scientific research and adds to their knowledge of current scientific methodology and research techniques. Embracing the theme that human beings are part of the ecosystem, not separate from it, the students learn these concepts and methods in the context of traditional and modern resource management practices.
The program is a partnership between Windward’s Pacific Center for Environmental Studies and Manoa’s Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology.
“The nationally-recognized PaCES-HIMB partnership has permitted the blossoming of a unique program that enhances environmental science literacy, motivates interest in science in general, and promotes environmental stewardship among Hawai‘i’s high school students," says Krupp.