Seed money for collaborative proposals by subgroups within C-MAIKI invest in efforts that will lead to grants from federal (NSF, NIH, NOAA, NASA, DOE, DARPA, etc.) or national private funding agencies (Keck Fdn, Gates Fdn, etc.).   Funding was awarded to groups of two to four PIs that have have tenure homes across at least two colleges or schools (e.g., Engineering and CNS or SOEST and CTAHR).  At least one member must be affiliated with the C-MAIKI group while other members can be any UH faculty, at any rank.