#Hawaiian archipelago
Ocean Exploration Trust to test new camera technology around main Hawaiian Islands
Footage from this system will then be used to create near real-time exciting applications for marine research and outreach.
Is Papahānaumokuākea lost breeding ground for endangered humpback whales?
“Based on recordings of whale song, our research reveals that nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago is visited by humpback whales during the winter and early spring months,” says the paper’s lead author Marc Lammers, research ecologist with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. “We documented an abundance of koholā in Papahānaumokuākea.”
