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Kauka Kaitlyn Lowder

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Kākoʻo ʻo Kauka Kaitlyn Lowder i ka Ocean Science Equity Initiative me TOF. Ma ke ʻano he mea ʻimi ola moana, ua noiʻi ʻo ia i nā hopena o ka hoʻokaʻina ʻana o ka moana (OA) a me ka hoʻomehana ʻana i ka moana (OW) ma luna o nā crustacean waiwai nui. ʻO kāna hana me ka lobster spiny Kaleponi (Panulirus interruptus) i ʻimi i ke ʻano o nā pale predator i hana ʻia e ka exoskeleton—nā hana e like me ka pale kaua e kūʻē i ka hoʻouka ʻana, kahi mea hana e pale aku ai i nā hoʻoweliweli, a i ʻole he puka makani e hoʻomaʻamaʻa i ka ʻike maka—e hoʻopilikia ʻia e OA a me OW. Ua loiloi pū ʻo ia i ka laulā o ka noiʻi OA a me OW e pili ana i nā ʻano ʻano ma ka Pākīpika pākīpika a me Indo-Pacific i ka pōʻaiapili o ka hoʻomohala ʻana i nā ʻāpana naʻau no ka hoʻomaopopo ʻana i ke kumu hoʻohālike kaiaola Hawaii Atlantis.  

Ma waho aʻe o ka lab, ua hana ʻo Kaitlyn e kaʻana like i ka hopena o ke kai a me ka hopena o ka hoʻololi ʻana i ke aniau i nā mea hana kulekele a me ka lehulehu. Ua hāʻawi ʻo ia i nā haʻiʻōlelo a me nā hōʻikeʻike lima ma luna o 1,000 mau lālā o kona kaiāulu ma o nā kipa papa K-12 a me nā kamaʻilio lehulehu. He ʻāpana kēia o kāna mau hoʻoikaika ʻana e paipai i ka mālama ʻana a me ka hoʻohana mau ʻana i nā kumuwaiwai moana a me ka hoʻopili ʻana i ka hanauna hou o nā ʻepekema, nā mea hana hou, a me nā lālā o kahi hui ʻike moana. No ka hoʻohui ʻana i nā mea hana kulekele me ka ʻepekema moana-climate, ua hele ʻo Kaitlyn i ka COP21 ma Paris a me COP23 ma Kelemānia, kahi āna i kamaʻilio ai me nā ʻelele ma ka hale ʻelele UC Revelle, kaʻana like i ka noiʻi OA ma ka US Pavilion, a alakaʻi pū i kahi hālāwai kūkā no ka pili o OA. i UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ma ke ʻano he 2020 Knauss marine policy fellow ma NOAA Research's International Activities Office, ua kākoʻo ʻo Kaitlyn i nā pahuhopu kulekele ʻē aʻe o ʻAmelika i ka ʻepekema a me ka ʻenehana, me ka hoʻomākaukau ʻana no ka UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).

Ua loaʻa iā Kaitlyn kāna BS ma Biology a me BA ma ka ʻōlelo Pelekania mai Western Washington University a he MS ma Biological Oceanography a he Ph.D. i loko o Marine Biology me kahi loea i ka Interdisciplinary Environmental Research mai ka Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. He lālā ʻo ia o ka NOHO PUU no na Moopuna ʻAha Kūkākūkā.


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