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Site Events - Hawaii Humpback Whale KidScience - Statewide Broadcast Students and Teachers at Sea Students and Teachers at Sea - Ka'imimoana DeepWorker Rendezvous with Atlantis Submarines National Marine Sanctuary Open House on Maui Sustainable Seas Celebration and Open House on Oahu National Marine Sanctuary Family Ocean Fair Live Satellite Broadcast: Sustainable Seas Expeditions - Hawaiian Style KidScience - Statewide Broadcast Date: Tuesday, January 11,
2000 One KidScience educational broadcast is proposed during the Sustainable Seas Expedition mission. KidScience produces distance learning programs that are broadcast live from KHET, Hawaii Public Television and delivered live via satellite to students all over the United States, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. The programs are delivered to students in schools via public television stations, cable consortiums, instructional television networks and individual schools with satellite dishes. Students are participants in the program; doing hands-on activities in the classroom or interacting live by telephone or through the Internet. This program will specifically focus on exploration and monitoring. How do scientists explore and monitor underwater? Highlights from the 1999 Sustainable Seas Expeditions will also be shown. Date: Wednesday, January
12, 2000 On the island of Maui, three
whale watch cruise boats from Trilogy, Pacific
Whale Foundation and Club Lanai have been
generously donated for student research. Selected
students and their teachers from various middle and
high schools on Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big
Island will participate in shipboard activities.
One hundred and fifty students will spend the
morning working with researchers to prepare for
their afternoon cruise activities. Students and
teachers will collect data on the humpback whales
and the waters they are sighted in. They will
participate in whale counts, record whale
behaviors, take fluke identification pictures and
analyze whale songs through the use of hydrophones.
Water quality tests, plankton tows and
environmental assessments will also be made in the
waters where the whales are sighted. During this
process, students will be encouraged to develop
their own questions that they would like to see
researched. Upon completion, the data collected by
the students will be posted, shared and compared
with data collected by the researchers operating
the DeepWorker submersibles.
Date: Thursday, January
13, 2000 The Ka'imimoana, an official NOAA research vessel, will be the submersible support ship during the SSE mission. Thirteen high school students representing all islands will spend the day shadowing researchers and NOAA ship operators. The students will have the opportunity to participate in the operations of a NOAA research vessel and will share their experiences with other student groups via a video-conference to be held at a later date. DeepWorker Rendezvous with Atlantis Submarines Date: Friday, January 14,
2000 This will be an incredibly
exciting opportunity for students to pose as
submersible researchers. Atlantis Submarines
operates passenger submarine dives to explore the
ocean floor on both Maui and the Big Island.
Atlantis has donated dives on both islands for
student research. One hundred and sixty students
and teachers will be taken to the floor of the
ocean (about 100 feet) in a submersible decorated
to simulate the inside of a whale. This whale model
will help to stimulate the imagination and generate
questions such as "If you were a whale, why would
you come to these waters?" Students will collect
data for fish counts, participate in a monitoring
activity and gain a better understanding about the
challenges of submersible research. Sylvia Earle
will work alongside the Atlantis in the DeepWorker
submersible and interact with students via
underwater radios. These are the kinds of
experiences that will hopefully encourage students
to study oceanography.
Date: Saturday, January
15, 2000
Scheduled entertainment includes the musical group Vaihi; an original children's musical, "Beneath the Ocean Blue," performed by Ohia Productions; and several keiki (children's) hula performances. Joining the Sanctuary in hosting this event will be local organizations which have been instrumental in the renovation of the Sanctuary's Kihei site. They include the Aoao O Na Loko I'a O Maui, Community Workday Program and Kihei Canoe Club. Sustainable Seas Celebration and Open House on Oahu Date: Saturday, January
22, 2000 The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary and the Waikiki Aquarium will host a "Sustainable Seas Celebration and Open House" on the oceanfront grounds of the beautiful Waikiki Aquarium. Highlights include an appearance by special guest Dr. Sylvia Earle, a children's theatrical performance by Ohia Productions entitled "Beneath the Ocean Blue," and educational children's activities by participating organizations. Also scheduled, courtesy of the Waikiki Aquarium, is an exhibit highlighting the Sustainable Seas Expedition and a life-size model of the DeepWorker submersible. Special events are free with
regular admission to the Waikiki Aquarium. For
admission rates go to Waikiki Aquarium,
Visitor
Information or call
(808) 923-9741.
Date: Sunday, January 23,
2000 The Family Ocean Fair will be a fun-filled family event focused on the ocean in Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii. Free children's activities, games, crafts, and informational displays will be offered by many of the island's ocean-related government agencies and private organizations. Lectures will also be provided by a number of speakers including noted underwater ocean explorer and National Geographic's Explorer-In-Residence, Dr. Sylvia Earle. This fair is intended to promote ocean awareness. This event and all fair
activities are free to the public. There will be a
special event parking fee at the hotel. This Family
Ocean Fair is co-sponsored by King Kamehameha's
Kona Beach Hotel and Atlantis Adventures. For more
information, contact Jean Souza of the Sanctuary
program at (808) 335-0941.
Date: Tuesday, January 25,
2000 This event will involve students doing whale counts, whale behavior observations and water chemistry studies on-board whale-watching vessels off the island of Maui. To learn more about this event and register for the live satellite broadcast go to Sustainable Seas Expeditions, Live Events. Once registered tune in to see what the researchers, "Deep Worker", and the students have learned during Sustainable Seas Expeditions - Hawaiian Style.
Kellie Araki, Sanctuary
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