Aloha e nā poʻe o ka loko iʻa o Heʻeia

Poʻalua ma ka lā  ʻiwakāluakūmākahi o Pepeluali

Ma kēia lā, ua pau mākou i ka mea kānana no nā mea hōʻikeʻike ʻuʻuku haku no Megsie. i kēlā lā i makani ai. ua waʻu ka hapanui o ko mākou hui i nā limu manauea mai nā mea hōʻikeʻike ʻuʻuku mai ka pule aku nei. ʻai mākou i nā ʻai māmā me mākou a ua walaʻau pū mākou e pili ana i ko mākou mau lā a me nā meaʻai apau. ʻO ka lā hope o Megsie ma mua o kona haʻalele ʻana ma ka moku nui no ka ʻimi i ke kumu. Ua ʻimi mākou i nā mea hōʻikeʻike ʻuʻuku no nā holoholona liʻiliʻi loa. ua ʻimi kākou i nā mea e like me ka dorvillidae, copapoda, serilladae, a me ka syllidae. a laila, ma hope o ko mākou ʻimi ʻana i nā ʻohe nānā, komo mākou i nā holoholona i nā ʻohe heʻa kahi me nā holoholona e like me kēlā holoholona. 

          

E hana pū nei ʻO Cami a ʻO Danielle me ka mea 

  

          

ma ka ʻaoʻao hema, i nā ʻohe heʻa me nā holoholona mai nā mea hōʻikeʻike ʻuʻuku

ma ka ʻao ʻao ʻakau, e ʻakaʻaka ʻO megan i kona hana ʻana me ka ʻohe nānā me Daniel. ua ʻimi ʻO Daniel i ko Megan kākau ʻana ma ka pepa na mea likeʻole i pili i ke kumu hana.

  

ma ka ʻaoʻao hema, i ka ʻohe mai ke kahua hoʻokahi haneli a me ʻeono i ka mea hōʻikeʻike ʻuʻuku hoʻokahi ma hope o ka kānana ʻana me ka ʻelima haneli microns. 

ma ka ʻaoʻao ʻakau, ʻO ka hoʻokahi ʻohe no ka holoholona dorvillidae ma hope o koʻu ʻimi ʻana mai ka ʻohe nānā 

ʻO nā ʻohe heʻa kēia. 

Ma ka poʻaono i ka lā ʻiwakāluakūmālima o Pepeluali

Ma kēia lā, ʻO ka lā wahi noho like o ka poʻe kēlā no ka Paepae o Heʻeia. ʻO ka lā mua no mākou i ka lā wahi noho like o ka poʻe kēia. O ka mea mua, ua hui mākou i ka hui ma ka honua ma mua o ka loko iʻa. A laila, hoʻolauna mākou e pili ana ko mākou inoa a me e pili ana ka noho mākou i hea. ua hele mākou ma ke kaʻapuni o ka loko iʻa no ka poʻe ua hele ʻole. a laila, ua hele mākou ma ka paia i ka pani o ka loko iʻa, ua holo wāwae mākou i ka wāhi o ka paia a ua neʻe i na koʻa i ka ʻelua wahi ma hope o ka wahi o nā koʻa. ua kūkulu i ka paia no ka mea wahī. Ma hope o kēia, ua hiki mai ʻO Anakē Donnie e walaʻau me mākou e pili ana i ka moʻolelo o ka loko iʻa o Heʻeia. Hoihoi loa kēlā mea walaʻau a ua hauʻoli loa mākou e pili ana i ko Anakē Donnie hiki mai ʻana. 

ʻO ka manawa moʻolelo me Anakē Donnie. a Hoʻolohe ʻO Cami iā Anakē Donnie i kona moʻolelo hoihoi loa. 

E walaʻau ana ʻO Anakē Donnie.

 

ʻO ko Koa a me Megan heluhelu ʻana i ka puke moʻolelo o Kāneʻohe i nā kēia mau kiʻi.

ʻO ka kiʻi kēia o ka loko iʻa o Heʻeia ma mua o kēia mau lā i ka wā kahiko. Nani loa kēiā kiʻi. 

Titration and Sampling.                    


Last Tuesday we worked with Sherril on determining the amount of dissolved oxygen from different areas of the pond that also contained large portions of Gorilla ogo. We collected water samples from inside the canopy of the Gorilla ogo, and outside of the canopy as well. Once all the samples were collected, we used titration to determine the amount of dissolved oxygen from the samples.
                                                       

Koa mixing in the titrant.

Anu scraping pieces of ogo.

Above are some of the samples we took that have been prepared to go through the titration process.



On Saturday Megsie started off with a whiteboard lecture, giving us a basic understanding of a food chain and how detritus organisms play a major role in food webs as well as the brown and green worlds. Megsie also went on to explain stable isotopes and the role they play in food webs.

We then went out to collect samples of Gorilla ogo from specific areas in the pond. After collecting samples, pieces of Gorilla ogo(10cm long) were taken from each site and cleaned off by scraping the top layer of the Gorilla ogo. This was to help Megsie determine what type of organisms are living of the Gorilla ogo.

Niki and Koa siving.

Once a piece of Gorilla ogo was taken from a sample, the sample then went over to the siving station. The samples were shaken fo approximately three minutes then poured into 500mm and then into 250mm to unsaturated soil out of the water.



A sting ray Cami, Lelia, and I found inside the pond by the break in the wall.

I Ka Papa Hana No'eau (he hana like)

Aloha bloggers! It's great to be back at the Fishpond and working with the LAIP crew (: I have returned!

This past Tuesday was a construction day for MegaMegs! Instead of the Megs Pex Cages that we built in the earlier LAIP sessions, we now present to you Megsie's new core thingamabobbers!

Here we have Anu & Megan and Cami & Nikki cutting the cores to the right precision!

We've been using plastic cores but decided to try a metal flashing core so that we could blaze through the Gorilla ogo.

Now to put these bad boys to the test! Koa and Wendall with the assist!

It's sieve-ing time!!! Patience is a virtue! Looks like these new cores work like a charm (:

Tune in next time here at the fishpond!

Gone Fishin'!

Last Tuesday, we were treated to a fishing lesson with Paepae o He'eia executive director Hi'ilei Kawelo.  This was the first of several sessions that Hi'ilei will lead to introduce local fishing practices and methods to the interns.  Her family has been fishing in Kaneohe Bay for over eight generations.  Today's lesson was pole fishing, or ka makoi.  We learned how to make the bamboo pole, tie the line and the hook, and catch the bait (shrimp, or opae).  And all of the interns proved themselves to be old salts - everyone caught a fish!  Wendell caught enough for the whole group! 

Hi'ilei demonstrates how to select a good pole.

Nikki's got herself a winner. 

           

Learning to tie a good knot.

Tying a good knot takes concentration.

Catching opae

 

Invasive crab, ala'eke (Thalameta crenulata).  We used this one for bait.

Hi'ilei shows the technique (it all in the waiting)

Waiting... 

More waiting...

LAIP Spring 2012!!

Aloha e Nā Kānaka, 

Mai ka Lā Hiki a Lā Kau!

Mai ka Hoʻokuʻi a ka Halawai!

TUE. Jan 24, 2012

The past three weeks weʻve been getting used to the flow of the internship getting to know each other and the work weʻll be doing for the next 6 months.  This past tuesday we went to coconut island to work on Megsieʻs project sorting out the biota in the fishpond sediment using a microscopes and tweezers. It was meticulous work distinguishing the live matter from the abiotic matter but cool to see the worms, shrimps etc that live in the sediment. Someone brought a loaf of pineapple bread that we mopped in 5 minutes.

SAT. Jan 28, 2012

Today we expected a work day with Paepae o Heʻeia but turned out the work day was two weeks away. Instead we worked out in the sand flats clearing out a mangrove shoot patch that was starting to establish outside the kuapā. After work we got rewarded with some homemade ahi poke but by the time we got there it was ogo poke.  But ogo was ono..so ono that moaʻula ate some.

      

Uprooting

Moaʻule one spoiled chicken 

  

Leila and Daniel working in the mangrove paddy

    

                                     

                                  Bringing home the harvest

Mangrove Massacre 



   Breaking the propagules into the bucket

Story time wit Leila da Great

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