Education & Outreach

Welcome to HiOOS Outreach and Education!

Click on the links below to learn more about oceanography and the Hawai‘i Ocean Observing System:

• Glossary
• Oceanography Fun Facts
• HiOOS Brochure (PDF)
• Public Lecture Series
  (To view the following files, please download the free player at: http://www.real.com/player/)
• Microbial Water Quality Monitoring (VIDEO link), presented by Grieg Steward
• EARs in the Sea: What listening to shrimp, fish and whales can tell us about their world (VIDEO link, presented by Rusty Brainard and Marc Lammers
• Using Electronic Methods to Track Top Predators (VIDEO link), presented by Kim Holland
• How Local Rain Events Affect Greenhouse Gas in the Atmosphere (VIDEO link), presented by Eric De Carlo
• Recent increases in the rate of global sea-level rise (PDF link), presented by Mark Merrifield
• Videos
  • Scientists use 'EAR' device to hear undersea creatures at KHNL NBC 8, 5 November 2008
  •  Invisible Dangers at KHNL NBC 8, 29 October 2008
  • Underwater lab gives scientists a window to coastal world on KHNL NBC 8 Earth and Sea, 07/30/08
  • New buoys will monitor water quality off Honolulu KHNL NBC 8 Earth and Sea, 06/06/08
  • Ocean Observing video from POGO (Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans)
  • Educational Water Quality video (with Navigating Change and Malama Maunalua) on YouTube
• 3-D maps of the Hawaiian Islands from HMRG (Hawaii Mapping Research Group)
• New! Ocean Atlas of Hawai‘i