Project Team
Department of Defense
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army-Environmental Safety and Occupational Health
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean District: Honolulu
Concurrent Technologies Corporation
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
University of Hawai‘i - Manoa
Environet, Inc.
Principal Investigator Bios
Department of Defense (DoD)
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army-Environmental Safety and Occupational Health (ODASA-ESOH)
ODASA-ESOH is the technical lead on the project and has been actively engaging the community on the issue of sea-disposed munitions.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean District: Honolulu (USACE POD)
The USACE POD has played a role in the Project since inception and will continue to participate in briefings and presentations. ODASA(ESOH) has assigned USACE POD as the primary on-island point of contact for matters related to DoD and Department of Army actions with regard to sea-disposed military munitions in Hawai‘i.
Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC)
CTC operates the DoD National Defense Center for Energy and Environment (NDCEE), and is a recognized national leader in demonstrating and validating the performance of a wide range of energy and environmental technologies for military and civilian applications.
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
NOAA is a recognized authority on oceanographic issues and acts as a steward of the nations ocean resources. NOAA is providing technical review for the HUMMA project
University of Hawai‘i - Manoa (UH)
The UH team includes personnel from various research departments of the university under the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)
SOEST was established by the Board of Regents of the UH in 1988 in recognition of the need to realign and further strengthen the excellent education and research resources available within the University. SOEST brings together four academic departments, three research institutes, several federal cooperative programs, and support facilities of the highest quality in the nation to meet challenges in the ocean, earth, and planetary sciences and technologies. SOEST is one of the nation’s premier academic institutions for ocean- and earth- related research. SOEST faculty and staff conduct research in a broad disciplinary range, often transcending the boundaries between units and fields of study.
At any one time, several hundred research projects worldwide involve SOEST researchers, either as the primary investigators or in collaboration with scientists at other institutions. All SOEST faculty conduct research and participate in the teaching mission of the school, although members of the research institutes, centers, laboratories, and programs have primarily a research focus and members of the academic departments split their time more evenly between research and teaching activities. The multidisciplinary nature of the school facilitates interactions between what are typically separate fields of study, thereby encouraging the flow of ideas and information.
Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
HURL was established by NOAA and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Its mission is to study deep water marine processes in the Pacific Ocean. HURL builds its research program through an annual request for proposals. Projects are selected through peer review and by a scientific advisory panel. In addition, HURL participates in private, state, federal and international collaborative research projects in the Pacific. HURL looks to the ocean, by far the largest untapped resource potential on earth, to find long-term solutions to critical problems facing today’s world.
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP)
HIGP is a multi-disciplinary institute engaging in advanced research, teaching, and service in cutting-edge oceanographic, atmospheric, geophysical, geological, and planetary sciences. HIGP is home to over 130 faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students with access to state-of-the-art laboratories and instrumentation. HIGP solves fundamental problems in Earth and Planetary Science by the development and application of state-of-the-art exploration, measurement, and data analysis technologies. HIGP expertise spans the globe from pole to pole, from the depths of the seas to the tops of volcanoes, and extends to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Hawai‘i Mapping Research Group (HMRG)
HMRG has developed and implemented tools and instruments used for such applications as geophysical mapping, communications cable surveying, fisheries research, marine archeology and unexploded ordnance detection.