Puakea Moʻokini-Oliveira
Puakea is broadly interested in indigenous knowledge systems and restoration ecology. Specifically, she is passionate about the elemental force that connects us all: water. Her graduate work is being done in collaboration with nonprofits from Halele’a, Kaua’i where she’s been living and working on riparian restoration projects and stream monitoring. Using lessons learned from Limahuli Garden and Preserve, Waipā Foundation, and Nā Maka Onaona, Puakea is helping to develop an ‘ōiwi-based stream monitoring toolkit to rekindle relationships to waterways, close knowledge and data gaps, equip communities/organizations, and build networks of placed-based programs for contextually robust decision-making.
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