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Coral
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Coral Reef Management
Diving
Fishes
Fisheries
Hawaiian Culture
History
Invasive Species
Marine Research Institutions
Marine Protected Areas
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Oceanography
Expeditions
University Resources
Weather
Coral
Reef Biology
Coral
biology and coral reefs -
an excellent series of pages about coral biology, and coral
reefs, and coral diseases.
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Coral
Reef Management
Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve - Management
agency for the NWHI Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve.
U.S.
Coral Reef Task Force - and interagecy U.S. Government
task force setup "to preserve and protect the biodiversity,
health, heritage, and social and economic value of U.S. coral
reef ecosystems and the marine environment."
Great
Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority -
the official website for the Great Barrier Reef management
agency.
Hawai‘i
Coral Reef Network - a network of sites about Hawai‘i's
coral reefs.
Hawai‘i
Coral Reef Initiative - The primary purpose of the Hawai‘i
Coral Reef Initiative Research Program is to support monitoring
and research activities aimed at building capacity to manage
Hawai‘i's coral reef ecosystems.
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Diving
NOAA
Diving Program - The NOAA Diving Program trains and certifies
scientists, engineers and technicians to perform the variety
of tasks carried out underwater to support NOAA's mission.
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Fishes
Fishbase
- An online database of fishes of the world. Pictures, descriptions,
distributions, and other information.
Waikiki
Aquarium's Web Library - All sorts of information about
the marine life found in Hawai‘i and the South Pacific,
along with suggested readings and information about their
exhibits.
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Fisheries
Western
Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council - An advisory
body to the National Marine Fisheries Service in the Western
Pacific.
National
Marine Fisheries Service Honolulu Laboratory
State
of Hawai‘i, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division
of Aquatic Resources
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Hawaiian
Culture
Polynesian
Voyaging Society - founded in 1973 to research how Polynesian
seafarers discovered and settled nearly every inhabitable
island in the Pacific Ocean before European explorers arrived
in the 16th century.
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History
Tanager
Expedition - The first scientific
expedition to go to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 1920's.
Hawai‘i
Maritime Archaeology and History - UH Manoa program.
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Invasive
Species
USGS
Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
Conservation
Hawai‘i
Marine
Invasives in Hawai‘i - UH Botany site.
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Marine
Research Institutions
Hawai‘i
Institute of Marine Biology
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Marine
Protected Areas
Marine
Protected Areas of the United States - provides information
on marine protected areas (MPAs) as required by Executive
Order 13158. This site, managed jointly by the Departments
of Commerce and the Interior, reports on the collective progress
in implementing the Executive Order.
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Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands
Checklists
of plants and animals of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
by the Hawai‘i
Biological Survey. Online databases.
Bishop
Museum's NWHI Cultural Collection Database - The cultural
objects included in this searchable database are from Nihoa
and Mokumanamana (Necker). They were collected by members
of several expeditions or by private individuals working for
governmental agencies.
Bishop
Museum's Annotated Bibliography of Cultural Resources for
the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands - Online searchable
database
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Oceanography
Coral
Reef Hotspots - Sea temperature measurements across the
globe to evaluate the potential for coral bleaching from abnormally
high ocean temperatures.
Global
Warming and the Risk of Sea Level Rise - EPA analysis.
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Research
Expeditions
NOAA
Ocean Explorer's Northwestern Hawaiian Islands - take
a look through the eyes of a Hawaiian monk seal as it swims.
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University
Resources
UH
Manoa and Hilo
Marine Option Programs.
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Weather
NOAA's
Climate Observation Program - Teacher at Sea - Join a
teacher at sea and follow daily logs, video and interviews.
El
Niño and La Niña - NOAA's Tropcal Atmosphere
and Ocean project maintains a string of moored ocean buoys
for improved detection, understanding and prediction of El
Niño and La Niña.
El
Niño and La Niña - National Acadamies of
Sciences article.
El
Niño and La Niña - NOAA's El Niño
theme page. Links to everything about El Niño you could
ever want to know!
Tropical
Storms Worldwide - Track tropical storms, hurricanes and
typhoons worldwide. Landfall/strike probabilities and other
info.
NOAA's
Weather Page - Everything you might possibly want to know
about weather. Links to National Weather Service and a million
other areas.
National
Weather Service Forecast Office, Honolulu, HI
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