Posted on 2:42 am, Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Tags: hawaiian monk seal, northwestern hawaiian islands
MEDIA RELEASE The federal government has announced public hearings in Hawaii about its proposal to designate more than 11,000 square miles of coastal and marine critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals. The proposed rule will protect beaches and coastal waters on all the main Hawaiian Islands and expand protected habitat in the Northwestern Islands. [...]
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Posted on 12:16 am, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Tags: Hawaii Nets to Energy Program, marine debris, Martin Smith, northwestern hawaiian islands, Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
more than 740 tons of it has been removed from the waters and shorelines of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) over the last 14 years
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Posted on 8:52 pm, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Tags: hawaii institute of marine biology, humpback whale, noaa, northwestern hawaiian islands, Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
MEDIA RELEASE Researchers at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit in the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology have made a remarkable new discovery. In the thick of whale season, researchers from HIMB and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shed new [...]
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Posted on 10:32 pm, Monday, September 27, 2010. Tags: coast guard, mulepat, northwestern hawaiian islands
MEDIA RELEASE The Honolulu-based Coast Guard Cutter Galveston Island returned home lat week, after a 13-day law enforcement patrol in the Northwestern Hawaii Islands. The Galveston Island participated in the Multi-unit Law Enforcement Patrol with the Coast Guard Cutter Kukui and a HC-130 Hercules from Air Station Barbers Point. This is the first MULEPAT that [...]
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Posted on 2:30 am, Monday, February 22, 2010. Tags: coral reef, elizabeth selig, john bruno, marine protected areas, northwestern hawaiian islands, university of north carolina at chapel hill
Study finds added ecosystem benefits from underwater conservation zones
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