HANDS ON MARINE EDUCATION
LAURA JIM PRESENTS AT NMEA CONFERENCE Laura Jim, HPA’s Marine Studies Director, traveled to Belingham Washington to present at the National Marine Educators Association’s (NMEA) 2023 conference. The conference, “Strait to Sound: Gathering at the Salish Sea”, was held at Western Washington University. Laura’s presentation highlighted the HPA Sea Turtle Research Program and how it …
Mauna Lani Turtle Independence Day 2023 The 2023 Turtle Independence Day celebration took place on July 4th, a beautiful, sunny day with a nice cooling onshore breeze. The HPA Sea Turtle Research Program students and administrators joined the Mauna Lani Auberge Resort staff on July 3 to weigh and measure the two honu being released. …
Marine explorations academy students visit MLAR On Wednesday, July 28th, 30 students from the Hawaii Preparatory Academy’s Summer Marine Explorations Academy visited the Mauna Lani Auberge Resort’s fishponds and their Mālama Honu program. Established in 1989, the Mauna Lani Hotel partnered with Oahu’s Sea Life Park to raise some of their captive bred honu (green …
HAWAII ISLAND CHARITY WALK Charity Walk at Wailkoloa Beach Resort, Queen’s Marketplace, May 13, 2023. Laura Jim and 4 HPA students hosted a sea turtle research and conservation booth at the Charity Walk on Saturday. They set up around 0630 and answered questions about Hawaiian sea turtle conservation and research through the eyes of the …
Makala continues to remain in the same area on the southern Great Barrier Reef. See Video of her Home Range as of 7/31/23 https://youtu.be/KXHhmP6gs1E Makala has remained in her home range habitat on the southern Great Barrier Reef. The video above highlights Makala’s movements during the time period from 4/2/2023 to 5/26/2023. The trajectories are …
HPA STRP Visits Hualalai resort HPA students, resort personnel and guests walk down to the ocean to release a honu after it was weighed, measured, tagged and numbered. As you can see, the surf was rather high making it difficult to locate the honu. https://turtle.hpa.edu/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1748-2.mov Laura Jim, Marc Rice and 7 HPA student volunteers joined …
HPA STUDENTS DO WELL AT STATE SCIENCE FAIR Two HPA students were invited to participate in the Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair which was held at the Neil Blaisdell Center on 4/5 and 4/6/2023. The two students, Alden Mazo and Minami Asbjornson, both took second place in their categories (Animal Sciences and Microbiology) for …
Tagging Trip- 92 Puako Beach Road On Monday, 4/17/2023, Laura Jim, Marc Rice and 10 HPA Sea Turtle Research Program volunteers traveled to Puako to capture, measure, weigh and tag green turtles (honu). We were joined by George Balazs who traveled over from Honolulu. We arrived at the tagging site at 0830, set up our …
HPA JOINS UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HILO AT PUNALU’U At 0600 hours on Friday, 3/31, 5 HPA students, Laura Jim and Marc Rice began a 2.5 hour drive to the south shore of Hawaii Island and Punalu’u Beach Park. There we joined the University of Hawaii Hilo’s Marine Option Program students for the annual turtle tagging …
Spring break-diving in Savusavu Laura Jim (HPA Director of SCUBA and Co-Director of the HPA Sea Turtle Research Program) is currently in Savusavu, Fiji doing some SCUBA diving. Besides having fun, she is “scoping out” diving opportunities for possible spring break diving with HPA students in coming years. Below are some underwater images that she …