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Impacts of Simultaneous Stressors on a Marine Ecosystem

We investigate the effects of climate change and fishing on Hawaii’s deep-set longline fishery for bigeye tuna; and find results that suggest a decline in Hawaii’s longline fishery yield may be inevitable.
July 04, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Prioritizing Reef Resilience Through Spatial Planning Following a Mass Coral Bleaching Event

A study published in Coral Reefs that combines ecological and cultural considerations to identify which herbivore management area locations would be most effective for Hawaiian reef recovery.
May 25, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Prioritizing Reef Resilience Through Spatial Planning

Following the 2014–2017 global coral bleaching event, we seek ways to promote long-term resilience. Here we investigate an unique spatial approach that can serve as an example for coral reef management in Hawai‘i, on other Pacific Islands, and beyond.
May 24, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Skeletal Records of Bleaching Reveal Different Thermal Thresholds of Pacific Coral Reef Assemblages

A limiting factor in studying the impact of ocean warming on the future of coral reefs is lack of quantitative data on thermal thresholds. We reconstruct a history of bleaching on reefs and use this to find the thermal thresholds of the coral communities.
May 02, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Improving Representation of Human Well-Being and Cultural Importance in Conceptualizing the West Hawai’i Ecosystem

Cultural ecosystem services and human well-being are recognized as important elements of SES. This study examined frameworks related to cultural ecosystem services and human well-being to better portray their importance.
May 01, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Leveraging Automated Image Analysis Tools to Better Assess Coral Reefs

Using previously analyzed imagery, we assess the capacity of a widely used machine-learning image analysis tool, CoralNet, to generate fully-automated estimates for the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) and American Samoa.
April 30, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Evidence of Local Adaptation in a Waterfall-Climbing Hawaiian Goby Fish

We evaluated a premise of local adaptation of marine and diadromous species in a Hawaiian goby known for its ability to climb waterfalls.
April 11, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Combining Fish and Benthic Communities into Multiple Regimes Reveals Complex Reef Dynamics

Fish and benthic data from a wide range of sources are combined to identify five Hawaiian coral reef regimes.
February 22, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Try, Try Again: Lessons Learned From Success and Failure in Participatory Modeling

Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation. We provide lessons learned, based on over 200 years of the authors’ cumulative and diverse experience, about PM processes.
February 14, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands

Parsing Human and Biophysical Drivers of Coral Reef Regimes

Coral reefs worldwide face the pressure of human pollutants. We use machine learning to conduct explanatory predictions on reef ecosystems that can help inform reef practitioners and hold promises for replication across a broad range of ecosystems.
February 13, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,
Pacific Islands