Marine biologist Julia Baum sampling Platygyra colonies on Kiritimati, 2019. Credit: Kristina Tietjen.
HIMB’s Julia Baum, senior author on this first-ever study, discovered some corals managed to survive a globably unprecedented heatwave.
For more about the study, please visit UH SOEST.
Dr. Erik Franklin, Director of CliRAIM and Associate Professor at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) [center], with a team at the AquaHack event.
Kian Sanchez placed third in 2024 Hawai'i State Science Fair
An aerial view of Heʻeia fishpond. (Photo credit: Keliʻi Kotubetey, Paepae o Heʻeia)