【详细解释】 MarBEC, a partnership between the University of Hawaii at Manoa, lead institution and the University of California, Berkeley (core partner), is head quartered at UH Manoa. It is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center established in November 1998. The founding Director and Principal Investigator was Dr. Oskar R. Zaborsky, a former UH Professor and the Hawaiian Electric Company William-Matsunaga Scholar.