Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
As members of the Coral Reef Ecology lab at Scripps Oceanography retrieved a sensor from near Kahekili Beach Park in Maui, Hawaii, a pod of spinner dolphins swam by. Dozens upon dozens of curious cetaceans streamed by like the flow of cars on a busy street during rush hour, turning a routine sensor retrieval into a once-in-a-lifetime dive.
Members of the lab headed by ecologist Jennifer Smith have been visiting Maui for more than a decade to monitor coral reefs along the island's western coast. We return to the same sites year after year and take thousands of pictures of each reef.
Read more about this ongoing program here: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/another-year-another-maui-trip
and here
https://coralreefecology.ucsd.edu/
As members of the Coral Reef Ecology lab at Scripps Oceanography retrieved a sensor from near Kahekili Beach Park in Maui, Hawaii, a pod of spinner dolphins swam by. Dozens upon dozens of curious cetaceans streamed by like the flow of cars on a busy street during rush hour, turning a routine sensor retrieval into a once-in-a-lifetime dive.
Members of the lab headed by ecologist Jennifer Smith have been visiting Maui for more than a decade to monitor coral reefs along the island's western coast. We return to the same sites year after year and take thousands of pictures of each reef.
Read more about this ongoing program here: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/another-year-another-maui-trip
and here
https://coralreefecology.ucsd.edu/
