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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Hawaiʻi"”.
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Articulated Indigeneity and Tourism in Hawaiʻi
… are articulated within tourism spaces in Hawaiʻi. This thesis research works to uncover the nuanced ways that Hawaiian indigeneity is employed to manage and regulate tourism activities in Hawaiʻi. I seek to question the narrative that Hawaiians consent to, and prosper from, the largely …
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Ecological evaluation of coral reef resources at Kahaluʻu Bay, Hawaiʻi
The primary objectives of this research were to: assess coral reef resources (coral and fish communities) present at Kahalu´u Bay, Hawai´i; and integrate scientific ecological observations with Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) and cultural practices. This localized assessment is the first …
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Organic matter remineralization in coastal sediments in and around Kane‘ohe Bay, Hawaiʻi
Nutrient cycles in shallow, near shore environments can be profoundly influenced by sediments, via the burial or release of nutrients through organic matter (OM) remineralization during diagenesis. The decomposition and burial of OM in sediments are key processes influencing biogeochemical cycles …
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Native Hawaiian Well-Being at Hawaiʻi Community College, An Initiative for Academic Success
… well-being and student educational attainment at Hawaiʻi Community College in Hilo, Hawaiʻi. It is written in an indigenous, Native Hawaiian framework, which includes a Pono Hawaiʻi research methodology. In order for the reader to understand the important context in which Native Hawaiian sense of …
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Spatial distribution of arsenic residues from historic application to sugarcane on the Hamakua Coast, Hawaiʻi
… Andisols from the Hamakua Coast of the Island of Hawaiʻi. Arsenic concentrations were found to be elevated (216 ± 20 mg kg-1) in comparison to the background levels in Andisols (<20 mg kg-1). Andisols of this study included soil series Onomea, Akaka, Kaiwiki, Hilo, and O'okala. As spiked solutions …
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Hawaiʻi's cold war: American empire and the 50th state
To understand how Hawaiʻi became part of America's Cold War domestic and foreign policy, this project examines the role of films, congressional statehood hearings, domestic print media, literature created by Hawaiʻi-based authors, and State Department documents. Together, these forms created a …
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An Investigative Study of the University of Hawaiʻi System-wide Aquaculture Program: Designing for Future Development
Over the past decade, the aquaculture industry has grown significantly around the world. With an estimated 80 percent growth projected for the Asia Pacific Region, the University of Hawaii is positioned to become a supreme resource of education, training and technical expertise. With the increasing …
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He Lāhui Ano Maikaʻi Keia: Japanese Immigration and the Intersections of Ethnicity and Sovereignty in Kalakaua's Hawaiʻi
<p>The late 19th century was a tumultuous period in Hawaiian history. Characterized by the interrelated questions of royal succession, political sovereignty, and labor immigration, the period of King Kalakaua's reign was the culmination of a building social crisis that had begun the moment American …
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Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
This dissertation considers how American Protestant missionaries made use of historical narratives and ideas about history to justify and contextualize U.S. evangelistic and imperial projects in the Pacific Ocean in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. History has generally been …
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Comparing A Simple Stochastic Weather Generator With Two Common Statistical Techniques For Gap-filling Daily Rainfall In Hawaiʻi
… in many historical daily rainfall records for Hawaiʻi. Countless gap-filling techniques exist, some more complex than others, and all are challenged by the spatially variable, complex terrain in Hawaiʻi. A stochastic weather generator (SWG) attempts to model the randomness and temporal …
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The Impact of a Global Pandemic on Teaching: A Narrative of Two Veteran Middle School Teachers in Hawaiʻi
The 2019–2020 school year started traditionally with the majority of students learning in a face-to-face model. By the end of March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic (Mahase, 2020; Nayak et al., 2021), and all schools in the United States shut down due to the …
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He Lāhui Hawaiʻi Ma O Ka Hoʻomomona Hou I Ka ʻĀina: Nā Moʻolelo Lōkahi Ma Ka Mokupuni ʻO Oʻahu (A Hawaiian Nation Through The Restoration Of ʻĀina Momona: Stories Of Unity– Among Ourselves, That Which Feeds, Community, And Spirit–On The Island Of Oʻahu)
… Hawaiian) with intergenerational ties to Hawaiʻi. I draw insight and methodologies from ʻike kūpuna (Hawaiian ancestral knowledge) and Hawaiian studies, as well as studies in anthropology, history, and science, technology & society (STS), to promote a sustainable, self-determinant Lāhui …
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Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Modern Day Ecosystem Management and Restoration Practices
… Through a review of literature, TEK in Hawaiʻi was compared to TEK in other countries. TEK was also compared to modern day ecosystem management practices to determine if TEK could be integrated. In Hawaiʻi an ahupuaʻa, a land transect that cuts the islands in sections from mountain to …
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Planter's Paradise: Nature, Culture, and Hawaiʻi’s Sugarcane Plantations
… environmental history of cane planting in Hawaiʻi, from Polynesian settlement to the early twentieth century, to explore how an export-based mono-culture plantation system eclipsed diversified farming, how cultural encounters between indigenous and Euro-American groups influenced …
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Hulihia Nā Kānāwai ʻĀina: The Effects of Post-1893 Land Law Changes On Native Hawaiians - Population Demographics Supplement or Supplant?
… was a culminating step in the effort to remake Hawaiʻi into a settler-colonial landscape. Sanford Dole and the rest of the usurpers utilized white supremacist ideals to create land law changes that enabled white American immigration while dispossessing Native Hawaiians concurrently. The Land Act …
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