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2016 | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER The Life of Sea Urchins Page 5 Be Reef-Safe page 8 The Hawaiian Turkeyfish page 12 Come see these Rock Boring sea urchins (Echinometra mathaei) at the Waikīkī Aquarium touch pools RECE N T EVENT S Family Night: Marine Mysteries Family Night was waves of fun, as almost 500 ocean detectives roamed the Aquarium grounds to solve the Case of the Missing Octopus. Keiki also learned how mantis shrimp eyes work, how bobtail squid glow, why box jelly stings hurt, where puka shells come from, what a cookie cutter shark bite looks like and much more. Concert-goers enjoying live, local music at our summer concert series. Ke Kani O Ke Kai The Waikīkī Aquarium made a splash with its Ke A big Mahalo to our presenting sponsor, Kani O Ke Kai Summer Concert Series, featuring Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, and our Seahorse some of Hawaiiʻs best in music and local Symphony, Coral Chorale and Anemone Tune sponsors for their support this year. Proceeds MARINE Photo Credit: Greg McFall, NOAA cuisine. This year’s star-studded lineup featured multiple Na Hoku Hanohano award winners like from the concert series will benefit upcoming MYSTERIES Chad Takatsugi, Streetlight Cadence, Amy Waikiki Aquarium programs and projects. AQUARIUM MESSAGE Hanaiali’i, Maunalua, Melveen Leed and more! Food was provided by our restaurant partners – Monk Seal Pin Haili’s Hawaiian Food, Cactus Restaurant, On August 24th, Hard Rock Cafe Laverne’s Lunch Wagon & Catering and A Place unveiled a new monk seal pin. Created in t’s an exciting time for marine life with the expansion ocean acidification, warming and other impacts of to Eat – with a portion of the proceeds benefit- partnership with the Communication Arts of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National climate change. ting the Aquarium. Program at Honolulu Community College, Monument to the largest marine protected area on a portion of the proceeds from pin sales Issue Number 198 ($5,000) Earth. Previously an area of 139,797 square miles, the The Waikīkī Aquarium is home to a Northwestern 2016 / OCTOBER / NOVEMBER / DECEMBER Seahorse Symphony Sponsors will benefit the Waikīkī Aquarium. Visit I ■ ■ Michael J. Marks Foundation fully-protected conservation area will now span 582,578 Hawaiian Islands exhibit, offering visitors a snapshot Beth Chang, Realtor Hard Rock Cafe Honolulu and pick one EDITOR ■ Elite Parking ■ Northwestern Mutual square miles. The expansion of this marine protected of the monument's unique marine life and ecosystem. Becker Communications up at the Rock Shop for only $12. area is wonderful news and important to the survival of Our 5,100-gallon exhibit features a living ecosystem ART DIRECTOR Becker Communications Coral Chorale Sponsors ($3,000) ■ Island Event Rentals thousands of marine species. representative of that found in the world’s most isolated ■ Alexander & Baldwin ■ King Auto Group islands. Organisms like table corals, masked angelfish, PHOTOGRAPHERS Waikīkī Aquarium ■ Aqua-Aston Hospitality ■ Kona Brewing Company Home to more than 7,000 species, a quarter of which yellow barbell goatfish and Japanese pygmy angelfish PRINTING ■ Bank of Hawaii ■ Kualoa Ranch are found nowhere else on earth, the marine ecosystems that are rarely seen around the main Hawaiian Islands Reskyu ■ Barefoot Wine & Bubbly ■ McCabe Hamilton & Renny of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are threatened by are on display. Kilo i‘a is published quarterly by the ■ Coldwell Banker Properties / ■ Matson University of Hawai‘i and the Friends ■ Reskyu of Waikīkī Aquarium and is dedicated Tracy Allen Real Estate WAIKIKI AQUARIUM to increasing the community’s ■ Hawaiian Coolwater knowledge of the Waikīkī Aquarium MONK SEAL PIN and Hawai‘i’s marine life. ($1,500) ■ Hawaii USA Federal Credit Union Waikīkī Aquarium Anemone Tune Sponsors 2777 Kalakaua Ave. ■ Aloha Petroleum ■ Izuo Brothers Honolulu, HI 96815-4027 ■ ■ Joseph Rothstein, Azure Wealth Advisors PHONE (808)923-9741 Armstrong Associates ■ FAX (808)923-1771 ■ Armstrong Foundation Marr Jones Wang HARDROCK.COM #THISISHARDROCK ©2015 Hard Rock Cafe International (USA), Inc. All rights reserved. www.waikikiaquarium.org ■ ■ Becker Communications, Inc. Michael D. Rudy JOIN HARDROCKREWARDS.COM WRITE TO US AT [email protected] ■ Bergeman Project Group ■ Mildred Tyson Foundation © 2016 Waikīkī Aquarium ■ Cactus Restaurant ■ Pono Pacific Land Management, LLC Marine Educators' Night PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER WITH ■ Cades Schutte LLP The Waikīkī Aquarium welcomed marine ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY INKS educators on October 7th to explore the Other Sponsors Aquarium while discovering new educa- ■ Hawaii Dental Service tional resources and catching up with old $500 friends. NOAA’s Ocean Explorer website ■ McKeague and Haley, Inc. and the “How do we Explore” curricula MANA ‘ O were highlighted, and educational Traditionally, the kilo i‘a was an expert of fish $250 and marine life. He studied the behaviors and non-profits and organizations provided movements of i‘a. The kilo stood at a high instructional materials for teacher. Mahalo point of land overlooking the ocean to watch 2014 Na Hoku Hanohano for an expected school of fish and steered to NOAA’s Ocean Explorer program and the fishermen in the school’s direction. The award-winner, Streetlight the National Marine Sanctuary Founda- Visit our Northwestern Hawaiian Island Exhibit in Gallery 4 success of surrounding the school was Cadence, entertained a entirely up to the kilo. crowd of over 700 guests tion for being our program sponsor. 2 // OCT - DEC 2016 at the June 23rd concert. KILO I ‘A // 3 RECE N T EVENT S Family Night: Marine Mysteries Family Night was waves of fun, as almost 500 ocean detectives roamed the Aquarium grounds to solve the Case of the Missing Octopus. Keiki also learned how mantis shrimp eyes work, how bobtail squid glow, why box jelly stings hurt, where puka shells come from, what a cookie cutter shark bite looks like and much more. Concert-goers enjoying live, local music at our summer concert series. Ke Kani O Ke Kai The Waikīkī Aquarium made a splash with its Ke A big Mahalo to our presenting sponsor, Kani O Ke Kai Summer Concert Series, featuring Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, and our Seahorse some of Hawaiiʻs best in music and local Symphony, Coral Chorale and Anemone Tune sponsors for their support this year. Proceeds MARINE Photo Credit: Greg McFall, NOAA cuisine. This year’s star-studded lineup featured multiple Na Hoku Hanohano award winners like from the concert series will benefit upcoming MYSTERIES Chad Takatsugi, Streetlight Cadence, Amy Waikiki Aquarium programs and projects. AQUARIUM MESSAGE Hanaiali’i, Maunalua, Melveen Leed and more! Food was provided by our restaurant partners – Monk Seal Pin Haili’s Hawaiian Food, Cactus Restaurant, On August 24th, Hard Rock Cafe Laverne’s Lunch Wagon & Catering and A Place unveiled a new monk seal pin. Created in t’s an exciting time for marine life with the expansion ocean acidification, warming and other impacts of to Eat – with a portion of the proceeds benefit- partnership with the Communication Arts of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National climate change. ting the Aquarium. Program at Honolulu Community College, Monument to the largest marine protected area on a portion of the proceeds from pin sales Issue Number 198 ($5,000) Earth. Previously an area of 139,797 square miles, the The Waikīkī Aquarium is home to a Northwestern 2016 / OCTOBER / NOVEMBER / DECEMBER Seahorse Symphony Sponsors will benefit the Waikīkī Aquarium. Visit I ■ ■ Michael J. Marks Foundation fully-protected conservation area will now span 582,578 Hawaiian Islands exhibit, offering visitors a snapshot Beth Chang, Realtor Hard Rock Cafe Honolulu and pick one EDITOR ■ Elite Parking ■ Northwestern Mutual square miles. The expansion of this marine protected of the monument's unique marine life and ecosystem. Becker Communications up at the Rock Shop for only $12. area is wonderful news and important to the survival of Our 5,100-gallon exhibit features a living ecosystem ART DIRECTOR Becker Communications Coral Chorale Sponsors ($3,000) ■ Island Event Rentals thousands of marine species. representative of that found in the world’s most isolated ■ Alexander & Baldwin ■ King Auto Group islands. Organisms like table corals, masked angelfish, PHOTOGRAPHERS Waikīkī Aquarium ■ Aqua-Aston Hospitality ■ Kona Brewing Company Home to more than 7,000 species, a quarter of which yellow barbell goatfish and Japanese pygmy angelfish PRINTING ■ Bank of Hawaii ■ Kualoa Ranch are found nowhere else on earth, the marine ecosystems that are rarely seen around the main Hawaiian Islands Reskyu ■ Barefoot Wine & Bubbly ■ McCabe Hamilton & Renny of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are threatened by are on display. Kilo i‘a is published quarterly by the ■ Coldwell Banker Properties / ■ Matson University of Hawai‘i and the Friends ■ Reskyu of Waikīkī Aquarium and is dedicated Tracy Allen Real Estate WAIKIKI AQUARIUM to increasing the community’s ■ Hawaiian Coolwater knowledge of the Waikīkī Aquarium MONK SEAL PIN and Hawai‘i’s marine life. ($1,500) ■ Hawaii USA Federal Credit Union Waikīkī Aquarium Anemone Tune Sponsors 2777 Kalakaua Ave. ■ Aloha Petroleum ■ Izuo Brothers Honolulu, HI 96815-4027 ■ ■ Joseph Rothstein, Azure Wealth Advisors PHONE (808)923-9741 Armstrong Associates ■ FAX (808)923-1771 ■ Armstrong Foundation Marr Jones Wang HARDROCK.COM #THISISHARDROCK ©2015 Hard Rock Cafe International (USA), Inc. All rights reserved. www.waikikiaquarium.org ■ ■ Becker Communications,