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The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) was established in 1988. It combines and integrates the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Mateorology, Ocean and Resources Engineering, and Oceanography, as well as the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, and the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. The Sea Grant and Space Grant College Programs, the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, all jointly supported by state and federal funds, are also part of SOEST. In 1997, the International Pacific Research Center was established in SOEST under the U.S.-Japan Common Agenda. The center is jointly supported by the state, Japanese, and federal funds.