Cliff Kapono

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Cliff Kapono is a Native Hawaiian professional surfer, journalist, and marine conservation scientist. He is known for his research that combines his interests.

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Education

Kapono earned his PhD at the University of California, San Diego [1] [2] [3] at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy. [4]

Career

As a surfer, a scientist, and a Native Hawaiian, Kapono's work focuses on ocean conservation and sustainability. He says that research is part of both his career and his identity. “Science is very powerful in that way to me, as an indigenous person, because it can help to communicate an idea that we have spent thousands of years trying to formulate...For me, the two spaces are completely connected, completely intertwined," he told The Surfer's Journal. [1] Kapono says that surfing has been in his family for 90 generations. [5]

One of his best-known projects is the Surfer Biome Project, where he studied the microbiome of surfers around the world. [1] [2] [3] [5] Kapono currently studies coral health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. [6]

Kapono is an ambassador for the Save the Waves Coalition and several other ocean conservation non-profit organizations, as well as for-profit surfing brands. [7] [8] He has been profiled in several surfing outlets, including Surfer Magazine and The Surfer's Journal. [1] [9] Kapono also has a YouTube channel, where he posts videos about scientists and surfers alike.

In 2019, he was featured in a national commercial advertising Hawaii as a travel destination. [10]

Selected honors and awards

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  2. 1 2 Smith, Peter Andrey (2017-04-03). "Do Seas Make Us Sick? Surfers May Have the Answer". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  3. 1 2 "Cliff Kapono | Look Deeper | Sciences at UC San Diego". Look Deeper. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  4. ↑ Yu, Madeleine (22 May 2018). "Solving The Microbe Mystery: An Interview With UCSD Researcher Cliff Kapono". Saltman Quarterly Online. Archived from the original on 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  5. 1 2 "Featured Advocate: Cliff Kapono". The Ecology Center. Archived from the original on 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  6. ↑ "THE MEGA LAB". THE MEGA LAB. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  7. ↑ "Ambassadors". Save The Waves. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  8. ↑ "Support and Collaboratoration". Cliff Kapono. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  9. ↑ "No Man is an Island: The Cliff Kapono Profile". SURFER Magazine. 2019-04-25. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  10. ↑ "The Hawaiian Islands TV Commercial, 'The Corral' Featuring Cliff Kapono". iSpot.tv. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  11. ↑ "Out to Change the World". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
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