Located in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is a world-class research and academic institution focused on informing solutions to some of the world’s most vexing problems. Through an integrated, comprehensive, and sustained system of Earth and planetary observations, research, and education, SOEST staff work to transform the way people live on Earth by enabling a healthy public, economy, and planet. Our faculty and staff are recognized as international research leaders on topics as varied as renewable energy, oceanography, coral reef ecology, volcanology, remote sensing, cosmochemistry, tropical meteorology, and climate modeling. SOEST is the research powerhouse of the University, generating fully one third of the total extramural funding received at UH Manoa. The School is operational 24/7/365, with programs and people across all the Hawaiian Islands and around the globe. We offer more than a dozen distinct undergraduate and graduate degrees. With two large research and several coastal vessels, two submersibles, a deep-ocean cabled observatory, a satellite fabrication facility, a private island devoted to marine biology research, and dozens of other specialized laboratories, students within SOEST are trained on state-ofthe-art facilities and mentored to find their passion by leading researchers and educators as much in the field and lab as in the classroom.