UH Hilo geography student Shawna Blackford, part of team that helped modernize Hawaiʻi County’s public access program Geographers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo recently completed a pilot project with the County of Hawaiʻi Department of Planning to help modernize the county’s public access program. Shoreline public access locations and associated permitting documents were digitized in a pilot geospatial database by UH Hilo geographical data experts and The collaborative project focused on the South Kona district but includes a feasibility analysis for extending the project to an island-wide scale. Ryan Perroy Ryan Perroy, an associate professor of geography who founded the