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 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 […]