Empowering a resilient workforce for American Samoa

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Amount awarded: $1,748,942

Supported by NOAA's Climate Ready Workforce initiative, this program will address the diverse and urgent climate crisis impacts in American Samoa and empower climate-ready communities. It will provide foundational training and strengthen the territory’s critical infrastructure through a partnership with American Samoa Power Authority, the territory’s only utility company.

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Hawai'i Sea Grant
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American Samoa Community College
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  • Si'u Point Trail, Ta'u Island, National Park of American Samoa, Department of the Interior, via Flickr. Used via a Creative Commons license, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

    • Collaborating for Success: Sustaining Water Supply on a Pacific Island

  • Drought on Ailuk Atoll in 2013, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Unmodified photo by PACC, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/, via Flickr

    • Recognizing and Responding to Drought on Pacific Islands

  • Waves crashing into basaltic rocks formed from lava flows on Hawai'i Island. Courtesy of pxhere.com

    • Reality Check: Collaborative Research Contributes to Real-Life Policy Decisions

  • The fuel tanks at the entrance to Pago Pago Harbor. American Samoa, Tutuila Island. Source: LCDR Eric Johnson, NOAA Corps. - NOAA Photo Library

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