Subject: RE: NWHI Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:26:36 -1000 From: Kuulei Rodgers To: Patrick.Caldwell@noaa.gov References: <49888D6A.3020808@hawaii.edu> Hi Pat, Lots of wind today. You shouldn't be in the office. Thanks for the metadata text file. That looks great. The only thing I would add is that the Maui DAR biologists headed by Skippy Hau and Russ Sparks conduct all the Maui resurveys. As for the NWHI it is part of a memorandum of agreement between HIMB and PMNM (Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. The funding is sponsored through NOAA and the PI was HIMB Director Jo-Ann Leong. The surveys are headed by Dr. Paul Jokiel and Erik Franklin. The NWHI rapid assessments expand the spatial range of habitats and add to the extensive database for the MHI. These will be used to include in our CRAMP Ecological Gradient Model to compare sites throughout the archipelago and to assess the condition of the sites. The methodology is the same as other rapid assessments which are an abbreviated version of the CRAMP long-term Monitoring sites. RATs have one-10 m transect instead of 10-10 m transects for the long-term monitoring sites for benthic cover. Thanks so much for archiving all of this and staying on top of it. Mahalo, Ku'ulei Ku'ulei Rodgers Ph.D. Assistant Researcher University of Hawai'i-Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology Coral Reef Ecology Lab 46-007 Lilipuna Road Kaneohe, HI 96744 (808)236-7440 kuuleir@hawaii.edu