  {"id":124055,"date":"2020-08-03T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=124055"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:50:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T01:50:51","slug":"online-series-hawaii-sea-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/03\/online-series-hawaii-sea-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"New online series explores critical issues facing Hawai\u02bbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_124077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124077\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series.jpg\" alt=\"yellow bird\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saving the kiwikiu. (Photo credit: by Zach Pezzillo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To inform the community about critical issues facing <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½,<\/span> the <a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/hanauma-bay-education-program\/\">Hanauma Bay Education Program<\/a> seminar series is offering special online programming in collaboration with University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/\">Sea Grant College Program<\/a> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">(Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Sea Grant) <a href=\"https:\/\/seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu\/about-voice-of-the-sea\/\"><em>Voice of the Sea<\/em><\/a> television series every Thursday from 2&#8211;3 p.m. for the month of August. Each episode will feature <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> researchers, graduate students and more.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124075\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"person swimming with a tape measure\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series-2-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/manoa-sea-grant-online-series-2.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanauma Bay. (Photo credit: Sarah Severino)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Viewers will learn about how Hanauma Bay\u2019s ecosystem is responding to the <abbr title=\"coronavirus\">COVID-19<\/abbr> closure; how <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½,<\/span>\u2019s 88,000 cesspools are impacting the nearshore environment; the science of growing corals for restoration; and the efforts to save nearly extinct birds through the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will have the opportunity to talk to the featured <abbr>UH<\/abbr> researchers during and after the episode, and will also be entered into a drawing for a free pair of Maui Jim sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>Advance registration is required using the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>August 6: <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMrc-qorz8jHtxVq01tymWLTrzLCBfVqJfn\">Hanauma Bay<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 13: <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJ0od-mvrj8uHtbM0pXg6Ll6hl_bjTtRNBe8\">Cesspool issues rising<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 20: <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJcrdOqprTwpGtPDYkUFdbrPwuwIrn7eoy7Z\">Coral restoration nursery<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 27: <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMuduygrTstE9caBcSZ5h1BwWvgMQoCQmoC\">Saving the kiwikiu with the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project<\/a> (part 2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information call <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½,<\/span> Sea Grant\u2019s Hanauma Bay Education Program at (808) 397-5840 or email <a href=\"emailto:hbaynews@hawaii.edu\">hbaynews@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Cindy Knapman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hanauma Bay Education Program seminar series is offering special programming every Thursday from 2&#8211;3 p.m. in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[109,1363,92,635,9,438],"class_list":["post-124055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-coral-reefs","tag-manoa-research","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-sea-grant-college-program","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-sea-grant","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124055"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124099,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124055\/revisions\/124099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}