Dr. Oceana Puananilei Francis (Native Hawaiian) is a Professor in civil engineering at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Honolulu, HI; and affiliate faculty at the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, AK. She has worked on numerous engineering projects throughout Hawaii and Alaska since 2000 to promote healthy coastal ecosystems (e.g. Hawaiian fishponds, coral reef health, sea ice impacts to Northern communities); and create sustainable local communities in Hawaii and Alaska. Francis is a co-PI for the NSF NNA project: Nonlinear Reduced Order Modeling Framework for Marine Structures. Some additional appointments include serving as editor for the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology; and as Region 8 Governor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assigned to Alaska and Hawaii. She received her MS at the University of Alaska Anchorage and PhD at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.