In my inbox today was this video of a remarkable bit of animal behaviour captured on video. It shows the famous manta night dive in Hawai’i interrupted by a dolphin, which seems to solicit help from a diver for a case of fishing line entanglement. The dolphin holds patiently still while the diver carefully removes . . . → Read More: Extraordinary dolphin footage
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By para_sight, on  April 13th, 2013  11 comments  Biology, Mammals, Pictures and Movies, Weird  Behavior, behaviour, dolphin behavior, dolphins, hawaii, scuba, scuba diving By Miriam Goldstein, on January 30th, 2012 9 comments Life At Sea, Scientist! acoustic, Alexis Rudd, dolphins, graduate school, hawaii This is a guest post from Alexis Rudd, who is a doctoral student at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology on the island of O’ahu. Her research uses sound to study the distribution and behavior of dolphins and whales in Hawaii, in partnership with Young Brothers interisland shipping company. It seems as though most people . . . → Read More: Guest Post: True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine Biologist
By para_sight, on November 17th, 2011 21 comments Fish, New Research, Organisms, Weird hawaii, shark, Shark Attack, swimming Field Museum scientist Josh Drew recently brought to my attention a new and unusual paper describing a world first. The manuscript by Randy Honebrink and co-authors in Pacific Science describes the first documented attack on a living human by a cookiecutter shark, Isistius sp., and it’s quite an eye-opener. Cookiecutters are relatively tiny sharks . . . → Read More: The real cookie monster
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 12th, 2011 One comment Plastic green sand beach, hawaii, marine debris, plastic pollution, SEAPLEX I have a new post up at the SEAPLEX blog (where I put all my marine debris stuff). A couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to go to Hawaii for the 5th International Conference on Marine Debris. (You can see my tweets at @seaplexscience, or the conference hashtag #5imdc.) This was my third . . . → Read More: Plastic pollution on Hawaii’s famed green sand beach
Dr Isabella Abbott, world-renowned algae taxonomist and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ethnobotany professor emerita. It’s with a heavy heart that I report that Dr. Isabella “Izzy” Abbott, scientist, passionate ocean science educator, and the foremost expert on central-Pacific algae, has passed away on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. She was 91. Born in Hāna, Hawaii, . . . → Read More: Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010)
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 27th, 2009 One comment Pictures and Movies Clark Little, hawaii, Photography, surfer, wave Imagine yourself from the inside of the wave, barreling shoreward, and exploding out into millions of watery pieces. Intense stuff. Clark Little, a surfer from Hawai’i with over 30 years experience, took his intimate knowledge of the ocean and frames an awe-inspiring vision of his home state from the perspective of the wave. “I . . . → Read More: Friday Deep Sea Picture: Looking Down the Barrel of a Wave
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 6th, 2009 One comment Expeditions, New Species, Organisms, Pictures and Movies bamboo coral, hawaii, New Species New genus of bamboo coral from 1600 m depth off Hawaii NOAA is reporting that seven new species of bamboo coral in six new genera were recovered from a November 2007 expedition in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. What a haul! Some are apparently 5 feet tall. Expedition participant Rob Dunbar of Stanford University was . . . → Read More: Friday Deep-Sea Picture: New Bamboo
By Peter Etnoyer, on April 29th, 2008 One comment Coral coral week, hawaii, Megavertebrate, monk seal One of the challenges of deep coral research is convincing people that deep corals form habitat for other animals, animals of particular concern, like fish or crabs, or endangered species like the Hawaiian Monk Seal. Precious coral beds with large colonies of Gerardia sp. 550m deep in the French Frigate Shoals support higher fish . . . → Read More: Monk seals dig deep-corals, so we should, too
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