Georgia Pieper Week 6: HIMB Coral Study
Hello again! I have spent my last week on Coconut island doing a variety of projects to help out other visiting researchers. During the beginning of the week, Miranda and I helped out a woman named Julie Zill who is doing her PhD research at HIMB. At the moment she is setting up an behavioral […]
Georgia Pieper Week 5: HIMB Coral Study
Hello! The fifth week of my internship here on coconut island has gone by incredibly fast. Much of the work I have done this week has been similar to that of last week. We took the volume and mass of each of our coral fragments for the week and later put that data into a […]
Georgia Pieper Week 4: HIMB Coral Study
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 […]
Georgia Pieper Week 3: HIMB Coral Study
Hello, hope everyone is doing well! This week at the HIMB, Miranda and I were able to finish all the set up and work needing to be done in order to help our experiment go underway. Rob Toonen, Miranda, Evan, and I were able to take out a research boat to Humbug reef and collect […]
Georgia Pieper Week 2: HIMB Coral Study
Hello! The second week of my Pinhead Internship here on Moku o Loe has gone by so quickly. This week another intern named Miranda Lentz and I have been setting up and preparing for our coral flow experiment. Miranda Lentz had previously done an internship in the coral nursery last year with fellow pintern Alannah […]
Georgia Pieper Week 1: HIMB Coral Study
Hello! My name is Georgia Pieper and I am doing my Pinhead Internship at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island. Coconut Island, also known as Moku o Loe, is about 28 acres all together off the windward coast of Oahu. During my first day on Moku o Loe, Professor Rob Toonen gave […]