NERD TALK: November 29 at 10:30 am, King’s Pond

Speaker: Kater Hiney (M.S. Science) is an Education and Outreach Specialist with the ʻĀkoʻakoʻa Coral Reef Restoration Program at the Ridge to Reef Restoration Center (3RC) in Kailua-Kona. Kater has been sharing her marine science passion and biological knowledge with students and the public for over 20 years. In addition to the ʻĀkoʻakoʻa Program, Kater works as an education specialist facilitating monthly Reef Talks, and educating future generations and the public through community education school grants.

With 120 miles of reef, the west coast of Hawaiʻi Island is the longest continuous coral reef in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Addressing local and global threats to those reefs, the ʻĀkoʻakoʻa Reef Restoration Program fuses Hawaiian cultural leadership, education, diagnostic and restoration science, and government support to empower communities of corals and people on Hawaiʻi Island, and together restore it. In this talk, ʻĀkoʻakoʻa Education Specialist Kater will talk about challenges that the island’s reefs are facing, what the program is doing to restore them, and how you can be part of the solution.