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- Pilot Whale Stranding on Kauai October 19, 2017
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Where are all the Ranina ranina?
Where are all the Ranina ranina? By guest blogger Lauren Van Heukelem One main objective of the SE1503 cruise aboard NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette was to survey the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for Ranina ranina (Kona … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystems and Oceanography, Scientific Operations
SE1503 – Sharks on the Ship and Videos from the Deep
By Guest Bloggers Cassie Pardee and Diona Drake Here we present another update from project SE1503 aboard NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette performing fisheries oceanographic research in the Mariana Islands (11-27 June 2015). We have been trapping from the Sette … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystems and Oceanography, Scientific Operations
Successful Rose Atoll Marine National Monument and American Samoa Ecosystem and Fisheries Research Prioritization Workshop
Over 30 representatives from American Samoa including resource managers, scientists and local community members met for two days (May 26-27, 2015) in Utulei, American Samoa to share knowledge about past, current and future marine research in the American Samoa Archipelago. … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem, Ecosystems and Oceanography, Fisheries Research and Monitoring, Protected Species, Scientific Operations, Socioeconomics
Tagged #MarineMonuments, American Samoa, ASEPA, connectivity, contaminants, COTS, disease, dmwr, ecosystem, fisheries, mapping, Marine National Monument, MPA, Muliava, NMSAS, NPSA, Rose Atoll, Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, Tauese P.F. Sunia Ocean Center, USFWS
Counting Fish: Bubbles or Not? Expedition underway to assess reef fish populations in the Main Hawaiian Islands
From June 14 to July 3, 2015, the NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai will be the platform for a research cruise to gather data and improve assessments of the status of coral reef fish populations in the main Hawaiian Islands. Led by … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
Tagged CCR, closed-circuit rebreather, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRED, DAR, Ivor Williams, Kevin Lino, main Hawaiian islands, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, PIFSC, PMNM, reef fish, research cruise, SCUBA, Ship Hi‘ialakai, State of Hawai‘i Division of Aquatic Resources, University of Hawai`i
Project SE1503 Aboard NOAA Research Ship Oscar Elton Sette: Midwater Trawling & Soft-Bottom Trapping!
Big traps, Lobster traps, Minnow traps…Oh My! June 15, 2015 Written by PIFSC guest blogger Cassie Pardee Photos courtesy of Diona Drake and Don Kobayashi One of the many projects on SE15-03 is the deployment of different traps to varying … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystems and Oceanography, Scientific Operations
Seafloor Mapping Mission Part 2: Hawai‘i Island
By John Rooney Our seafloor mapping mission began in early May with underwater video and photographic surveys of coral reef habitats along the shores of West Maui, as documented in Seafloor Mapping Mission: Maui. The second part of this mission, … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
Tagged Alenuihaha Channel, Chad Wiggins, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, CRCP, CRED, ecospatial information team, GoPro, Hank Lynch, Hawaii Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, John Rooney, Kawaihae Harbor, Kristin Golmon, M/V Koholā, M/V Kākū., mapping, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, NOAA Habitat Blueprint, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC, Porities compressa, Rhonda Suka, seafloor, SplashCam, State of Hawai‘i Division of Aquatic Resources, The Nature Conservancy Hawai‘I, TNC, TOAD, towed optical assessment device, underwater photography, underwater video, West Hawaii, West Maui, whale shark
