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Protecting American Samoa’s island of giants
In partnership with the Samoan people, NOAA has just announced the establishment of a new National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa. Fagatele Bay in American Samoa had previously been established as a National Marine Sanctuary (one of only 14 such sanctuaries, along...
A short tale and thoughts on how hardy corals really are
A few weeks ago the Hawaiian Islands were hit with a series of major storms. These caused substantial flooding in many parts of the state. For example, Lihue on the island of Kauai set a new rainfall record on May 5th of 8.64 in., obliterating the old record of 1.14...
Breakthrough in octopus communication
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMM4XYteqWI Education researchers at Oregon Sea Grant's Free-Choice Learning Lab, housed at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC), have discovered a way to translate octopus gestures to human speech. This...
Banning aquarium fishing in Hawai’i, or how good ideas go astray
For the Fishes is an advocacy group based here in Hawai'i that has been one of the leaders in the movement to ban fishing for the aquarium trade in the Hawaiian Islands. I recently had an exchange with For the Fishes on their facebook page which I hope adds...
Old seagrass…really, really old seagrass
Some organisms are able to reproduce asexually through fragmentation. A familiar example is most corals which you can slice, dice, and fricassee and still grow into separate colonies. While this is a common mode of reproduction for many branching corals in...
Hold your breath!
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and my dissertation work asks questions about how corals react to lower pH (associated with ocean acidification, OA) and higher temperature (associated with climate change). I'm one of several people here...
4Coral Research Group makes a splash in Ohio
A team of scientists from Ohio State University, the University of Delaware, the University of Georgia, and professional aquarists at Reef Systems Coral Farm, Inc., are busy working to improve our understanding of how corals will react to global change. When one...
Shocker, Hawaiian coral reefs are worth more to people than the NFL!
How much are Hawai‘i’s coral reefs worth to you, and how much would you be willing to invest to protect and restore them? A recent survey commissioned by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and conducted by Stanford University in...
Coral reef responses to climate change and ocean acidification: One size doesn’t fit all!
Coral reefs are by far the most diverse marine ecosystems, housing about a quarter of all marine species, though they occupy only 284,000 km2—a mere 0.08% of the area of the world’s oceans. Many coral reefs are still relatively healthy and spectacularly beautiful,...