Hello! This week Miranda and I retrieved data from our flow experiment. We were able to calculate the flow level for each of the lines to obtain the flow rate and water exchange rate. We also took the mass and volume of each of our 180 coral fragments for the week. We later gathered and took the mass of all the corals from last year’s experiment in the coral nursery. It was so cool to see how some grew while others had bleached. This week started out a little slow due to some rain and thunderstorms that caused the shuttle boats to close. We then put all of our data into spread sheets.
During the week many of the visiting researchers and masters students must do PAM and respiration work on the corals. PAM Fluorometry stands for (Pulse amplitude modulated) and measures their photosynthetic efficiency. This information is useful for their experiments as it can measure the photo inactivation that occurs during heat stress. Many of these experiments are testing the corals under inhibited rising temperatures. I helped my housemate Lulu with her PAMing one evening. Many of the coral researchers on island are very busy collecting spawning from the Montipera Flabalatta and Montipera Capitata also at the time. One of my housemates Liv, is working on the future use of cryopreservation for coral larvae. 
Honu (Turtle)
There are many different labs and researchers on coconut island and one of the most amazing things for me has been to meet different people and talk about all the of the awesome work they are doing to help us learn more about coral and other marine organisms.
This weekend my housemates and I were able to do an intense yet rewarding hike called Kau’u Crater. We saw many beautiful waterfalls and were able to see our little island, Kaneohe bay, all of Honolulu and Diamond head from the top. I am so excited to see where this week will take us!
There are no comments published yet.