Warm sunny weather makes for a good survey day

I want to give a big “Mahalo” to Cassidy, Devon and Rachel for helping me complete two benthic habitat surveys. The visibility was not the best, but the water temperature and weather were much nicer this time. In addition, the coral size and frequency survey was completed so quickly, that I think it is time to incorporate a fish survey with the benthic habitat survey. I will post more on this soon!

Here are a couple pictures from the survey:

Flying or Helmet Gurnard

Eel

Lace Coral (Pocillopora damicornis)

Mound Coral (Porites evermanni)

Crustose Coralline Algae

Our in-house limu specialist, Beth, has indicated that this may be a red limu of the Dasya species

Diamond Head

Cassidy measuring coral

Rachel Snorkeling!