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Tiff weighing and recording. |
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Our dried out core samples. Still here! |
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Danielle checking out the chlorophyll samples. |
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The gang setting up to make standards. |
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Handy dandy machine to analyze chlorophyll that Jake and I worked with. |
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Everyone working and concentrating hard! |
Work Day!
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Good Morning Everyone! |
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Sheryl graced us with her presence this work day. (holding kahiwa) |
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Judy also came as she returned safely from her trip. |
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Extreme negative tide today because of the full moon. This is outside of the pond. |
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Negative tide inside the pond. |
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Keahi sharing his mana'o on the fishpond. |
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naupaka |
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the first mākāhā. |
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The rain was threatening! We lucked out that it was blown away. I wake up to these mountains every morning and they still amaze me every time. Gives real meaning to the phrase, 'Lucky to live Hawaii'. Truly blessed. |
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Got to work placing ko'a. |
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Another thing that amazes me is the progress of the wall. I remember when we first started in January Paepae O He'eia only had the wall up to the Triple Mākāhā. Here is the result 6 months later. You can barely see it! What many hands can achieve together. |
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Chris showing he is the best at perfectly placing ko'a....and sitting down. |
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volunteers hard at work passing the older, bigger ko'a to line the wall. |
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Sorry Jake! Cut you out a little. |
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After working so hard, finally time to make the journey back in. |
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While some took to walking on the wall, others helped bring the barges in the water back. |
My experience here over the past six months has been one to remember. I am so glad to say I have made a difference somewhere. I will definitely be back for future workdays, and maybe find myself an intern with Paepae O He'eia. This is a truly amazing place with amazing people. I am so fortunate to be able to learn from them and apply it to my future. It feels great to bring family and friends and show them what I have been doing, the science side, and what has been accomplished in work days on the wall. I can now say to my future generations, "See that wall? I helped build that." and they would go wow. I could then say, "Ok, you see the wall, but I have done a lot more than just move pohaku. You can't physically see it, but all the zooplankton in the pond, I counted that." It is pretty neat that I have assisted with things that can and cannot be seen, but are still appreciated the same.
MAHALO NUI!