Ocean Matters is Going to Hawaii!
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii This coming May 2014, Ocean Matters will be piloting a new week-long project with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Coconut Island. Working in Hawaii will round out our offerings, giving students a wide array of choices for studying […] Read More
Your Mind on Blue and a “Lucky” Karina Dress Giveaway
I know that just about every time I go to the seashore—no matter what time of year—I’m likely to end up taking off my shoes and walking in the water. It’s an ancient urge, this plunge into the salty edge. I return with my bare feet draped in fragrant seaweed and salt lines on my […] Read More
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Who’ll Stop the Rain?
We hear so much these days about the degradation and the plight of the sea. The statistics are sobering. Coral reefs are disappearing at a rate five times that of the rain forest. Fully three-quarters of the world’s fish stocks are being harvested faster than they can reproduce. Eighty percent are already fully exploited or in decline. Dangerous chemicals from plastics and […] Read More
Rain, Rain Go Away!
It has been six days since our plane landed, and we have yet to see the sun! Tropical storm weather has made it hard for us to collect our research and dive this week, but we have been troopers. We completed at least one dive a day, battling currents, winds, and even fire worms! On […] Read More
What’s a Quadrat?
[dropcap]B[/dropcap] efore we can start our research project, we have to build the quadrats–the square plots with which we will measure coral vs. algal cover on the coral reef. Each quadrat is made with PVC piping drilled with holes to allow it to be both water proof and to sink onto the reef. We string […] Read More
Welcome to the Island!
by student blogger (age 17) We’ve been on the island for two rainy dreary days. With tropical storm weather, our days have been a little constricted but in return we have kicked off our research project early, building research equipment i.e. quadrants. This morning however we woke up to partly sunny skies and were able […] Read More