Partners & Collaborators

Partners play a critical role in the success of the Pacific Island Network inventory and monitoring program. Partnerships provide bridges to technical specialties needed to complete natural resource management tasks, foster better interagency understanding and discovery of common ground, promote innovation of new ideas, strengthen support for dealing with complex issues, and are critical to the long-term success of natural resource management. We define partnership in broad terms, to include formal partnership agreements, as well as cooperative, interagency, and other forms of mutual interest. Such partnerships are at the core of the NPS mission and operational structure.

To become a partner or for further information, please contact:
Greg Kudray, Program Manager
Pacific Island Network
P.O. Box 52
1 Crater Rim Drive, Qtrs 22
Hawaii National Park, HI 96718-0052
Phone: 808-985-6183
greg_kudray <at> nps.gov

Whether partners are Federal agencies, state or local agencies, universities, community groups, local schools, or others, all are needed at some level toward monitoring natural and cultural resources within national parks. A summary of partnership efforts in the PACN are idientified in our Vital Signs Monitoring Plan (pdf file).

Below is a sampling of partners the Pacific Island Network has interacted with in the first few years of program implementation. We look forward to expanding upon this list in coming years.

Multi-national

• UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve Integrated Monitoring Programme (BRIM)
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
• South Pacific Applied Geosciences Commission

US Government

• US Geological Survey—Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
• US Geological Survey—Pacific Islands Water Science Center
• US Geological Survey—Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
• US Fish & Wildlife Service
• NOAA Pacific Services Center
• NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

State, Territorial, Local Governments

• State of Hawaii - Department of Land & Natural Resources
• State of Hawaii - Department of Health
• Territory of Guam
• Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
• Territory of American Samoa

Educational Institutions

• Hawaii-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit
• University of Hawaii-Manoa
• University of Hawaii-Hilo
• University of Guam
• American Samoa Community College