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“I am writing to convey my support for the expansion of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument as proposed by Senator Schatz in his June 16, 2016 letter.”

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MEDIA RELEASE Submarine canyons play an important role in maintaining high levels of biodiversity of small invertebrates in the seafloor sediments of the main and northwestern Hawaiian Islands, according to research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. What’s more, scientists have used this data to draw new connections between the levels of faunal diversity […]

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NOAA’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve, part of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, is seeking applicants for two alternate seats on its advisory council. The council ensures public participation in the reserve’s management and provides advice and recommendations to the superintendent. “Community representatives on our advisory council are an extremely important part of our […]

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Brian Bowen: ‘The Coral Triangle in the western Pacific has the highest marine biodiversity in the world in part because it has a halo of islands around it’

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MEDIA RELEASE Dynamic modeling of sea-level rise, which takes storm wind and wave action into account, paints a much graver picture for some low-lying Pacific islands under climate-change scenarios than the passive computer modeling used in earlier research, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report. A team led by research oceanographer Curt Storlazzi of […]

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MEDIA RELEASE NOAA’s Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve, part of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, is seeking applicants for six seats on its advisory council. The council provides advice and recommendations to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, a division of the National Ocean Service, and ensures public participation in management of the country’s […]

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The State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife is seeking three to four volunteers for the summer field season on Kure Atoll (mid-February – September 2012). Kure Atoll is a part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) and is located 1400 miles northwest of O’ahu.

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* Events are 7 p.m. Tuesdays in the Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium * June 14 – Nene in the Space Age: Satellite Telemetry of Hawaii’s Endangered Goose After being reduced to less than 30 individuals in the 1950s, nene, the Hawaiian goose, has been restored to much of Hawaii through decades of captive breeding, releases […]

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Scientists developed predictive model for cauliflower coral based on Big Isle’s ReefWatchers work

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more than 740 tons of it has been removed from the waters and shorelines of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) over the last 14 years

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MEDIA RELEASE Researchers at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit in the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology have made a remarkable new discovery. In the thick of whale season, researchers from HIMB and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shed new […]

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Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (PMNM) is one of the most pristine and best protected coral reef ecosystems in the world. While PMNM’s management is designed to best support the ecosystem’s resilience to climate change, these measures cannot completely prevent damage from climate change.  One of the effects of climate change is to increase the […]

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Unusually warm water temperatures can disrupt relationship between corals and algae

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UNESCO’s World Heritage List protects and preserves natural and cultural heritage sites of “outstanding universal value.”

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