The Conversation: Research funding helps community; Stewardship fee proposed for commercial ocean users

HPR's Sabrina Bodon details a training program that places community collage graduates into rail jobs; University of Hawaiʻi faculty rake in record amounts in research funds; Department of Land and Natural Resources hosts statewide meetings about stewardship fees to maintain marine resources; and a retired local physicist shares his perspective on the newly released "Oppenheimer" film