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Volunteers Nevaeh Howard (in blue) and Elena Beauchamp-Estrella (in red) volunteer on Kahoâolawe in February. With the ongoing pandemic, Kahoâolawe Island Reserve Commission has cut their volunteers making the trip to the island in half. Photo courtesy Kahoâolawe Island Reserve Commission
When the COVID-19 pandemic kept volunteers from traveling to Kaho’olawe to help with planting, the weeds started to grow.
The 14 staff members of the Kaho’olawe Island Reserve Commission tried as much as they could to spread native plant seeds on the island, but it could not match the level of plantings and seedlings that a large group of volunteers could offer, said Michael Naho’opi’i, the commission’s executive director.
The Maui News
A new underwater data sensor is being used at Maalaea Harbor to collect more information every five minutes on water temperature, salinity, turbidity, chlorophyll and ocean depth.
Nonprofit Maui Nui Marine Resource Council is borrowing the device through the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System Water Quality Sensor Partnership Program to boost its ocean water quality monitoring efforts in Maalaea.
“We are grateful to PacIOOS for the use of this data sensor that will help us learn more about the effects of tides, swell, rain events and runoff on water quality within Maalaea Harbor and to monitor water quality variability over time,” Amy Hodges, the marine council’s programs and operations manager, said in a news release Wednesday.