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Day 1: Getting ready/Leaving Oahu
Dr.
Randy Kosaki,
Research Coordinator for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve |
Scientists gather in the
Hi'ialakai research
lab |
Leaving Oahu |
Day 2: The Rocky Island of Nihoa
The rocky island of Nihoa |
The HI1 Zodiak
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Days 3-4: Arriving at French Frigate Shoals
Fish
and shark tagging team launching the HI2 |
Dr. Iliana Baums and Erik Franklin are processing
the day's coral samples to take back to the laboratory
at HIMB
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Turtles mating |
Jennifer
Salerno sampling a lobe coral colony at French Frigate
Shoals |
Days 5-6: Bouncing between French Frigate Shoals and Gardner
Pinnacles
Invertebrate biology team preparing to dive at Gardner
Pinnacles. Photo by Randy Kosaki |
Swimming with hundreds of ulua at rapture reef.
Photo
by Malia Rivera |
"Team Fish" encounters
many Galapagos sharks at Gardner Pinnacles. Photo
by Malia Rivera |
A small Galapagos shark at Gardner Pinnacles. Photo
by Randy Kosaki. |
Rapture Reef.
Photo by Luiz Rocha.
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An eight foot galapagos shark equipped with a pop-up archival tag. After a pre-determined period of time, the tag will pop free of the shark, float to the surface, and relay data to an ARGOS satellite.
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Days 7-8: Coral Genetics at the small scale
Steve Karl and Jenny Schultz deploy GIBS unit at
French Frigate
Shoals
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The coral team surveying
Porites lobata for fine scale
genetic
analyses
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Sunset as the team leaves
French Frigate Shoals
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(L to R) HIMB biologists Brian Bowen and Steve
Karl, Hi`ialakai coxswain Jason Kehn, and HIMB biologists Dave
Albert and Carl
Meyer enjoy some sunset music. |
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