Project oCEANIC

Ongoing Climate Crisis

Residents of small Pacific islands face devastating effects from climate change, such as sea level rise, loss of biodiversity, and intensifying storms.

Community Collaboration

Project oCEANIC combines Indigenous and local peoples’ environmental knowledge (ILEK) from communities in the Marshall Islands, Yap, and Hawaiʻi with quantitative computer models of archaeological and paleoclimate data.

The Result

This project develops a novel agent-based model to investigate how traditional navigation practices can build community resilience amid climate change and post-pandemic disruption.