{"id":68317,"date":"2017-10-11T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=68317"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:55:38","slug":"hilo-students-researching-coral-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/11\/hilo-students-researching-coral-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilo students spend month at sea researching coral health in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_68358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68358\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship.jpg\" alt=\"Â鶹´«Ã½student interns on a boat\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three interns from the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8212;(l-r) Colton Johnson (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa), and Keelee Martin and Rosie Lee (<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo)&#8212;on the <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> research vessel <span aria-label=\"Hiialakai\">Hi&#699;ialakai<\/span>. Courtesy photo <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A student and a recent graduate from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mare.hawaii.edu\">marine science program<\/a>\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> returned from a month-long sea voyage to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.papahanaumokuakea.gov\">Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument<\/a>\u00a0to do research on coral and fish populations. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a>\u00a0(NOAA) ship <span aria-label=\"Hiialakai\">Hi&#699;ialakai<\/span> returned to Honolulu on September 30 after a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omao.noaa.gov\/find\/media\/articles\/2016-09-30\/noaa-ship-hiialakai-surveys-french-frigate-shoals\">25-day mission<\/a>\u00a0to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosie Lee<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Keelee Martin<\/strong>\u00a0were interns as part of a <abbr title=\"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\">NOAA<\/abbr> research team completing the third leg of a research mission in support of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pifsc.noaa.gov\/cred\/pacific_ramp.php\">Hawaiian Atolls Reef Assessment and Monitoring Project<\/a>. The <abbr title=\"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\">NOAA<\/abbr>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pifsc.noaa.gov\/cred\/\">Coral Reef Ecosystem Program<\/a>\u00a0team and partners conducted reef monitoring and damage mitigation work. The data is used to assess the impacts of climate change on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and gauge potential threats to the main Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sanctuaries.noaa.gov\/news\/oct17\/embracing-pathways-to-the-sea-in-papahanaumokuakea.html\">Read Keelee Martin&#8217;s observations on her Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea experience<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Rosie Lee<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68359\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-lee-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-lee-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-lee-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-lee.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapid Ecological Assessment fish team after diving at French Frigate Shoals. From left, Colton Johnson, Scotty Jones, Jake Asher, Rosie Lee and Jason Leonard. Courtesy photo <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lee was trained to be a part of the Rapid Ecological Assessment fish team where she helped conduct fish surveys throughout the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. During a survey, the team identifies, counts, and sizes all the fish in a transect along specific time intervals. They also collect benthic (sea floor) data and photographs of the area to provide a habitat description for the fish they are counting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Being at sea for a month doesn\u2019t come without challenges. Everyday you\u2019re underwater, you make new observations, notice species interactions you\u2019ve never noticed and are becoming a better scientist throughout the process,&rdquo; says Lee.<\/p>\n<h2>Keelee Martin<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68360\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-martin-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-martin-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-martin-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-martin.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo undergraduate Keelee Martin conducts benthic surveys during her internship aboard a <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> ship in the protected French Frigate Shoals. Photo by Stephen Matadobra\/<abbr>NOAA<\/abbr>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the mission, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo alumna Martin was an intern on the Benthic Team, the group that looks at the substrate, which most of the time means coral. The benthic team\u00a0identifies and measures coral species, notes the morphology, assesses live tissue from dead tissue and looks at the overall health of the live tissue. They also photograph the substrate they are examining.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This experience is truly unique,&rdquo; says Martin. &ldquo;I heard about it for the first time three years ago when I first attended QUEST (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhhmop.hawaii.edu\/quest\/\">Quantitative Underwater Ecological Surveying Techniques program<\/a>). The fact that this internship exists blows my mind, to actually be one of these interns&#8212;still processing that one. I feel humbled and very gracious to have been given the opportunity. It&#8217;s not every day that I see something and wonder if any other human eyes have seen what I am seeing. I thought that more than once up there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa student\u00a0Colton Johnson\u00a0was the third intern from the <abbr>UH<\/abbr>, also on the trip through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhhmop.hawaii.edu\/\">Marine Option Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Lee and Martin read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/10\/06\/marine-science-research-noaa\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/10\/06\/marine-science-research-noaa\/\"><em>From <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Susan Enright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie Lee, Colton Johnson and Keelee Martin spent a month as part of a <abbr>NOAA<\/abbr> research team studying the effects of climate change on reef and fish populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":68360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[109,262,107,14],"class_list":["post-68317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-coral-reefs","tag-marine-science","tag-oceanography","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hilo-marinescience-internship-martin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68317","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=68317"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113584,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68317\/revisions\/113584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}