FY24 Funded Projects

Since its inception in 2003, the Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Council (HISC) has disbursed funding to support interagency invasive species projects that: 

  • Fill gaps between agency mandates or existing agency programs, and/or
  • Advance our collective knowledge through research and development of new tools. 

Funds are disbursed via an intra-governmental granting process wherein state, county, and federal offices may submit requests for funding and meet to collaboratively draft a recommended budget for HISC review. 

For Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24), the legislature appropriated $5,750,000 to the HISC. An additional $1,500,000 was added to the HISC budget by the legislature. The HISC appropriations are subject to a 10% expenditure restriction by the Department of Budget and Finance and 7% overhead from the Division of Forestry and Wildlife (Forestry and Wildlife) at the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) as the administrative host of the HISC. The account that the HISC appropriation is allocated to, LNR402, was subject to a 20% reduction in FY23 which carried over to FY24. The amount of funding required to support core programs under the HISC for FY24 is $584,072.75. The remaining balance of $4,102,008.25 is available for interagency project grants. 

Smaller Project Awards:

Overall Rank 

Application Title  

 Program  

 Total Requested  

RWG Recommended Award Amount 

26 

Detector Dog Program – Little Fire Ant – Hawaiʻi/O’ahu islands 

UH, Hawaiʻi Ant Lab 

$99,722  

$25,317 

25 

Biocontrol of Melastomes and High Priority Plants 

USDA Forest Service 

$209,000  

$60,135 

24 

Investigates Ramie Moth impacts on plants/insects 

UH, College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources 

$61,812  

$18,831 

23 

Biocontrol Research Cost/Benefit Analysis UHERO 

UHERO (UH Economic Research Org.)  

$115,020  

$57,510 

22 

ROD Outreach Extension Program / 6-mo. Salary 

UH, College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources 

$42,359  

$13,622 

20 

Albizia Biocontrol USDA 

USDA Forest Service 

$144,000  

$46,307 

18 

Survey for Tibochina and Strawberry Guava Biocontrol Expansion 

UH PCSU, Ko’olau Mtn Watershed Partnership 

$107,974  

$38,377 

15 

Albizia removal capacity – O’ahu 

UH PCSU, Ko’olau Mtn Watershed Partnership 

$169,617  

$68,899 

13 

HDOA Biocontrol Capacity Expansion 

HDOA Plant Industry 

$352,184  

$149,019 

12 

Detection/Control Two-Lined Spittlebug 

UH, College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources 

$529,332  

$200,000 

10 

Department of Health Wolbachia/Mosquito Program to Prevent human infection of disease 

DOH, Vector Control Branch 

$120,000  

$75,000 

5 

Ballast Water and Hull Fouling 

DLNR, Aquatic Resources 

$82,000  

$82,000 

4 

Little Fire Ant – Oahu Monitor and Control* 

UH, Hawaiʻi Ant Lab 

$320,307  

$184,322 

1 

CGAPS Staffing Program-Outreach 

CGAPS 

$83,500  

$73,489 

 

Total 

 

 

$1,092,829 

 

Programmatic Awards:

Overall Rank 

Application Title  

 Program  

 Total Requested  

RWG Recommended Award Amount 

17 

BIISC Mitigating Impacts of Invasive Species 

UH PCSU, Big Island Invasive Species Committee 

$506,749  

$809,502 

14 

BIISC Detection and Control of Invasive Plants 

$713,337  

3 

BIISC Community Engagement 

$352,256  

16 

OISC 5 Priority Weeds Control 

UH PCSU, Oʻahu Invasive Species Committee 

$897,837  

$700,000 

11 

OISC EDRR 

$508,965  

9 

OISC Outreach/Staffing 

$210,482  

8 

MISC/MoMISC Community Engagement 

UH PCSU, Maui & Molokai Invasive Species Committee 

  

$324,283  

$825,000 

2 

MISC/MoMISC Detection/Control/Outreach/Staffing 

$1,281,322  

7 

KISC EDRR + Control 

UH PCSU, Kauaʻi Invasive Species Committee 

$974,930  

$674,677 

6 

KISC Public Outreach + Education 

$144,437  

 

Total 

 

 

$3,009,179