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Kumuola’s research agenda encompasses two general topics: 1) Educational Research: the impact of culturally grounded, experiential, student-centered and mastery-based learning on student learner profiles and measures of success, and 2) Environmental Research: research around the contemporary biological and environmental cycles within historic loko iʻa impacted by introduced non-native and invasive species. Our research is collaborative, student-centered, community informed, and guided by both the identified research needs of a loko iʻa collective and the unique environment in which we are located.
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
For information and resources about our educational research at Kamehameha Schools Hawaiʻi, please
follow the link to our Alaukawai site hosting five volumes of our publication E Ulu!
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Links below introduce ongoing environmental research at Kumuola.
publications and presentations
PUBLICATIONS
Steward, Kainalu K., Brianna K. Ninomoto, Haunani H. Kane, John H. R. Burns, Luke Mead, Kamala Anthony, Luka Mossman, Trisha Olayon, Cybil K. Glendon-Baclig, and Cherie Kauahi. “Highlighting the Use of UAV to Increase the Resilience of Native Hawaiian Coastal Cultural Heritage.” Remote Sensing, vol. 16, no. 12, 2024, article 2239, https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/12/2239.
PRESENTATIONS
Mead, L., Chong, S., and S. Kiyota. “Empowering Tomorrow’s ʻŌiwi Scientists Today.” Presented within the session “Intergenerational Knowledge Exchange for Indigenous Marine Stewardship and Cultivation,” American Fisheries Society Meeting, Sept. 2024, Honolulu, HI. Conference Presentation.
Abe, K., Christensen, D., Gapero, H., Ito, K., Kiyota, S., and L. Mead. “Empowering Tomorrow’s ʻŌiwi Scientists Today.” Co-presented within the session “Hui Mālama Loko Iʻa and Hui Loko: Advancing the Stewardship of Loko Iʻa in Hawaiʻi for Future Generations,” Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference, July 2024, Honolulu, HI. Conference Presentation.
Mead, L., Olayon, T., Glendon-Baclig, C., Glennon, L., and S. Chong. “Kumuola: A Source of Knowledge, Traditional Hawaiian Fishpond Captures Magnitude and Temporal Pattern of an Introduced Mullet Invasion (Osetomugil engeli) Through Student Genetic Barcoding Research.” World Aquaculture Conference, May 2023, Darwin, AU. Conference Presentation.
Olayon, T., Mead, L., Datlof, E., Sutton, J., Richards, L., McNaughton, B., Soller, K., Wilson, E., Echeverria, P., and L. Glennon. “Contextualizing STEM for a New Generation of ʻĀina-Conscious Leaders: Using Genetic Barcoding Techniques to Identify Contemporary Challenges to a Native Hawaiian Fishpond System.” Aquaculture America, Feb. 2020, Honolulu, HI. Conference Presentation.
Mead, L., Richards, L., and J. Van Blarcom. “Ka Pūnaewele Meaʻai o Nā Loko Iʻa: The Use of δ15 Nitrogen and δ13 Carbon Isotopes as an Extension of One’s Kilo to Understand Trophic Interactions Within a Loko Iʻa.” Aquaculture America, Feb. 2020, Honolulu, HI. Conference Presentation.
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