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TCBES unites 38 faculty at UH Hilo with 89 affiliated faculty from federal and state agencies and other universities. Participating UH Hilo faculty reside in the Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, and Marine Science Departments of the College of Arts and Sciences, and in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management. The affiliated faculty come from many different agencies including USFS, USDA, USGS, NOAA, NPS and State Dept. of Land and Natural Resources. As a multidisciplinary, multi-college program, TCBES encourages and facilitates sustained collaboration across the research areas of ecological and evolutionary genetics, ecosystems analyses and responses to environmental change, cyber infrastructure for environmental research, and geospatial analyses. Faculty and students engage in projects in environments that range from marine and coastal habitats to tropical rainforests, mesic and dry forests and shrublands, and rivers.
The TCBES faculty and affiliated faculty in the federal, state and non- government organizations provide the expertise to establish a center of excellence that bridges K-12, undergraduate and graduate education and research initiatives. The program has attracted significant extramural funding to UH Hilo to establish this center.