Seawords January 2003 Happy New Year and Welcome Back From Sherwood Maynard, MOP Director the Department of History. The Graduate Ocean Policy Program was also transferred to the Drawing by Elena Millard Department of Oceanography and seems to be ready to transform into a degree program as Hope everyone had a good break over the SOEST has Authorization to Plan a Coastal and holidays. We face lots of new opportunities and Marine Resources Program to offer M.A., M.S. challenges entering 2003! Close to home in MOP and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Michael Cooney has we will all be busily preparing for QUEST, our obtained a National Science Foundation award coral reef surveying workshop in May at UH Hilo. for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates The curriculum will be modified this year to Sites Program at Mänoa in marine biotechnology prepare for baseline surveys along the north shore for at least the next three summers. And for the of Kaho‘olawe this summer. We are also looking final “deja vu” MOP will be assisting Ed Laws towards the 20th Annual MOP Student Skill who is the PI on a subcontract from San Diego Project Symposium to be hosted by Maui CC on State University to hire students to provide April 19, followed by an excursion Sunday to technical assistance to Navy facilities in Kaho‘olawe. Mänoa MOP will forge ahead with Hawai‘i. new staff at Seawords and in the Secretary At another level, Governor Lingle will position. New students are starting as interns with apparently be reducing the university's budget the Whale Sanctuary, while Cody and Regina allocation and freezing some employment, continue with the turtle stranding network. Our though exactly how this will affect UH and collaboration with Alu Like continues in preparing trickle down to MOP is unclear. We still have not native Pacific Islanders to become longline regained the positions or funding level we had fisheries observers. Hans will be wrapping up the prior to transferring to the College of Natural inventory of submerged cultural resources in Sciences. Monies acquired through our Hawaiian waters for the Naval Historical Center. fundraising (principally with Oceanic Imaging Signe, our new student coordinator, is laying out Inc. at an event in November 2000) are about Seawords an ambitious field trip program. MOP will be exhausted, having been spent to benefit MOP developing further linkages with the new BS programs mostly at Mänoa, but throughout the Marine Biology degree and new faculty being system as well. Unless substantial new funding hired to get the program up and running. Elements is identified for the next fiscal year, we face of Maui CC, Windward CC, UH Hilo and UH major cutbacks in services and staffing, Mänoa are cooperating with Walter Ritte's group including the possibility of stopping Seawords. on Molokai to develop an aquaculture center at Though we have had encouraging Keawanui fishpond. communications with the new administration at Former MOP programs are a bag of mixed Bachman Hall, nothing tangible has yet resulted news. Some interest is surfacing on resurrecting in terms of either MOP reorganization or and reformulating the Blue-Water Marine additional funding. Number 1 Laboratory, a sea-going science program for high All considered, we are still energized and school students. This would likely be based out of Volume XVII Volume committed to moving forward on a number of Kawaihae. The Graduate Maritime Archaeology fronts with experiential ocean education for January, 2003 January, and History Program was transferred from MOP to Hawaii's youth. the Department of Oceanography and then Best wishes to all our readers for a productive terminated last Spring. So far it has met very 2003! rough seas in attempts to get it re-initiated out of Sherwood Seawords January 2003 Seawords UH Mänoa . Telephone: 956-8433 Volume XVII, Number 1, January, 2003 e-mail: <[email protected]> Editor: Brian Richardson web: <http://www2.hawaii.edu/mop/> Seawords - Marine Option Program University of Hawai‘i, College of Natural Sciences 2525 Correa Road, HIG 214 UH Hilo and Hawai‘i CC . Honolulu, HI 96822-2219 Telephone: 974-7544 Telephone: (808) 956-8433, Fax: (808) 956-2417 E-mail: <[email protected]> email: <[email protected]> Web site: <http://www2.hawaii.edu/mop/> web: <http://www.uhhmop.hawaii.edu/> Seawords is a monthly newsletter of the Marine Option Program at the University of Hawai‘i. Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily UH West Oahu . Telephone: 454-4715 those of the Marine Option Program or of the University of Hawai‘i. e-mail: <[email protected]> UH Mänoa MOP Events Honolulu CC . Telephone: 847-9824 January 13th First Day of Instruction at UH Mänoa. e-mail: <[email protected]> January 16th 4:00pm Spring Student Orientation at the Kauai CC . Telephone: 245-8251 MOP Study Center. e-mail: <[email protected]> January 20th Martin Luther King Jr. Day (holiday). Kapiolani CC . Telephone: 734-9389 6:00 to 8:00pm—QUEST ID Class: Fish (part 1) at HIG 215 e-mail: <[email protected]> January 22nd Alu Like Fishing Observer Course and Leeward CC . Telephone: 455-0286 Alan Hong’s Scuba Course both begin e-mail: <[email protected]> January 24th 5:30am at the United Fish Agency. Meet at UHM at 5:10 for carpool Maui CC . Telephone: 984-3203 e-mail: <[email protected]> 6:00 to 8:00pm—QUEST ID Class: Fish web: <http://www.coralreefs.hawaii.edu/ (part 2) at HIG 215 mccmop/mop.html> January 28th 6:00 to 8:00pm—QUEST ID Class: Coral and Invertebrates (part 1) at HIG 215 Windward CC . Telephone: 235-7389 e-mail: <[email protected]> January 30th 6:00 to 8:00pm—QUEST ID Class: Coral & Invertebrates (part 2) at HIG 215 web: <http://www.wcc.hawaii.edu/mop> February 4th 6:00 to 8:00pm—QUEST ID Class: Limu For more information on MOP events, contact your local MOP office. Pre- February 7th 6:00pm—QUEST ID Class: Final Exam registration is required for all field trips. February 14th QUEST 2003 Application Deadline February 17th President’s Day (holiday). Open-water scuba course Naui Scuba instructor Alan Hong will be teaching an March 3rd Deadlines for MOP Symposium Open-water scuba course Mondays and Wednesday presentation application & Anna Toy Ng Memorial MOP Scholarship nomination. beginning January 22nd. Ocean Dives are planned for February 8th, 15th, and 22nd, and possibly March 1st. April 19th, 20th MOP Student Symposium, to be held at The Course meets from 6:30 to 9:30 pm and the cost is Maui CC. $150 (with $40 deposit) for UH students and $165 (with QUEST 2003 — May 18th to 31st $55 deposit) for non-students. If you are interested QUEST, which stands for “Quantitative Underwater please contact the UHM MOP office at: 956-8433, walk- Ecological Surveying Techniques”, is an intense summer in or email at <[email protected]>. course held every year at UH Hilo. QUEST ID classes will be starting in January. For more information, contact Leeward CC MOP EVENTS your MOP office or visit the UH Hilo MOP web page at: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2003 Presenter and Title to be determined <http://www.uhhmop.hawaii.edu>. QUEST is LCC MOP meets the first Tuesday of every month. All open to non-MOP students on a space meetings are in MS 102 from 12:30 to 1:20. For more availability basis. February 14th is the information contact Dr. Frank Stanton at 455-0286 or at deadline for applications for QUEST. <[email protected]>. Seawords January 2003 EVENTS AROUND Kaho‘olawe Open Waters Schedule KIRC’s Open Water Schedule for 2003 can now be found at <www.state.hi.us/kirc>. This schedule indicates when and where HAWAI‘I fishing is allowed around Kaho‘olawe Diving Safety Training Dates UH Scientific Diver Qualification Course Waikiki Aquarium Educational January 21st to May 6th, 2003 Classes & Activities Lectures: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:30 to 8:30pm Preregistration is required for all activities. Openwater/Practical Training: Saturdays, Please call the Education Department for 8:30am -3:30pm (2 dives per day) registration materials. Phone: 923-9741, Cost Recovery Fee: $285.00 Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. For Course is designed to meet the UH and American Academy of more information on these and other events, Underwater Sciences (AAUS) diving knowledge and skill visit the Waikiki Aquarium’s web site at: requirements for authorization as a Scientific Diver. For <http://www.waquarium.org>. prerequisites and other information, visit the office’s web page at: <http://www.hawaii.edu/ehso/diving/courses.htm>, or Exploring the Reef at Night contact Dave Pence at e-mail: <[email protected]>; phone: Friday, January 17, 7:00 to 9:30pm 956-9643. or Friday, January 31, Friday 7:30 to 10:00pm Experience the reef at night with Aquarium naturalists, getting wet Aquaculture Workshop up to your knees as you explore from the shore. Coral reef ecology, Saturday, January 18th, 2003, 9:00am to 3:30pm reef conservation and shoreline safety are covered. Minimum age 5 This free workshop is an introduction to everything a years, youngsters must be accompanied by an adult. Registration: beginning aquaculturalist needs to know about recirculating $12/adult, $10/child ($10/8 members). systems. The workshop covers the advantages and disadvantages Ka‘ena Point Coastal Hike of recirculating systems; system components; designing, Sunday, January 19, 8:0 am to 3:00pm building and management of recirculating systems as well as Aquarium naturalists guide this hike for adults (16 years and up) to the economics involved in their use.