Some are half naked most of the time… 🤷🏽♀️ tune into our story to read more of what the lab is tackling this year.
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#theMEGAlab #sciencenerds #surfculture #skateculture #artculture #hilohawaii
Let’s figure out why Honolua reef is so special! This Saturday May 9th at Honokahua (Ritz Kapalua beach lawn) we gonna be doing live demonstrations of how to map reefs using cameras. Additional workshop tents from @kahakukahi@savehonoluacoalition and @huiowaa Come learn how to map your surf break. That afternoon a team of Mega scientists and surfers gonna go dive and apply it to Honolua. Let’s party!!! @reef
Real-time reef monitoring just leveled up. 🪸
Sea-Bird Scientific, Sofar Ocean, MEGA Lab, UH Hilo, and Aqualink have successfully integrated a Sea-Bird Scientific sensor with a Sofar Spotter Buoy + Smart Mooring using the Bristlemouth Development Kit. This is a significant step forward for plug-and-play integration of marine sensors.
Off Keahole Point, Kona, Hawaiʻi, live pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, salinity, pressure, wind, wave, and temperature data are now combined with a live underwater video feed in one public dashboard: aqualink.org/sites/1006. See every stressor the reef is facing and watch it respond in real time.
“These data are paired with real-time visual observations from the MEGA Lab livestream camera to document how physical and chemical conditions vary with tides, storms, seasonal cycles, and heat stress events... The measurements also provide an open resource for students, community partners, and researchers to link observed reef behavior with shifts in local ocean chemistry.” — Dr. John Burns, MEGA Lab at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
The data, code, and decoders are open-source and free to use.
🔗 Link to the live dashboard in Aqualink’s bio and story.
Over the last 4 years, @themegalab and @reef have been mapping the reef at some of the world’s most iconic waves. Pipeline, Cloudbreak, Teahupoo and Jaws. Guess where we’re going next!
VC: @94.video
HILO: Join us in MEGA Lab’s downtown space at Mokupāpapa Discovery Center this weekend for two back-to-back Roots and Research events!
Roots and Research brings together one community member and one scientific expert and features a conversation between the two. In addition to the storytelling, both evenings will have live music, pupu, and drinks.
December 12 and 13 at 76 Kamehameha Avenue, Hilo, from 5 pm on onwards. See you there!
It’s #givingtuesday and we ain’t asking for your money. Give us some data ya nerds. We need 10,000 next generation ocean cartographers to help us map the shit out of our ocean. Learn more at map2adapt.com @themegalab@94.video
The Smartest Surfer in the World 🧠
Native Hawaiian professional surfer and marine conservation scientist Dr. @cliff_kapono joins @thelineuppod .
Cliff talks about his work with the MEGA Lab, how he connects the threads of surfing & science, and his new doc with VICE.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
