LISTSERV 16.0 - CTURTLE Archives Subscriber's Corner Email Lists Log In CTURTLE Archives [email protected] LISTSERV Archives CTURTLE Home View: Message: [ First | Previous | Next | Last ] CTURTLE November 2018 By Topic: [ First | Previous | Next | Last ] By Author: [ First | Previous | Next | Last ] Font: Proportional Font Search Archives Subject: Hawaiian Hurricane Walaka's submergence of East Island From: honu world <[log in to unmask]> Advanced Options Reply-To: Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 03:47:08 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/alternative Parts/Attachments: text/plain (21 lines) , text/html (47 lines) Options Dear Cturtlers, One of the under-appreciated beauties of Cturtle is it's archival element. All that is said, and has been said, on Cturtle re is stored and Log In searchable now and by those of the future. With this awareness I share below Get Password a view I recently contributed to the Washington Post's Letters Web Site- expanded upon from my earlier post sent to CTurtle. Search Archives "About Hawaiian Hurricane Walaka washing away the green sea turtle (honu) Subscribe or Unsubscribe nesting islet of Hikina (East) in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Surely this is one of the most exciting times of my 48-year career working with Hawaiian Archives green turtles. The loss of East Island at French Frigate Shoals started March 2021 decades ago documented by photo evidence. My first stay on the island as a February 2021 University of Hawaii sea turtle researcher was in June 1973. At that time January 2021 about 30% of the island had eroded away since the mid-1940s. The loss of December 2020 November 2020 the island is part of some natural long term process where sand, unlike stone, October 2020 comes and goes, accumulates and then washes away in cycles. The entire September 2020 northwestern segment of the Hawaiian chain has been sinking and August 2020 July 2020 disappearing over geologic time. And new land is formed by active Pele June 2020 volcanism at the southeastern end of the chain. Sea turtles for millennia have May 2020 always been able to adapt to such changes. If they hadn't they would all have April 2020 gone extinct long ago. The Hawaiian green turtle population is robust, durable March 2020 February 2020 and incredibly adaptive. They will figure out where to nest new and it will be January 2020 insightful and amazing to watch it happen over the next few years. Perhaps December 2019 increasing their nesting on Kauai and Niihau where elevated sand beaches November 2019 October 2019 occur. With Confidence in both Mother Nature and the Honu of Hawaii September 2019 'Change is the Name of the Game' George Balazs, NOAA Retired Hawaii August 2019 Senior Sea Turtle Scientist" July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 R f d ti l f th W hi t P t O t b 25 2018 April 2019 Top of Message | Previous Page | Permalink March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 https://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1811&L=CTURTLE&P=10152[3/28/2021 10:09:45 AM].