Authors

This description of the ocean around Hawai‘i was written by P. Flament, S. Kennan, R. Lumpkin, M. Sawyer, and the late E. D. Stroup, all at the Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa at Mānoa.

Data compilation and graphics support were provided by J. Deshayes, J. Firing, B. Kilonsky, J. Potemra, F. Santiago-Mandujano, also at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, and by K. Bigelow, P. Caldwell, C. Motell, and M. Seki, at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Photo of Hawaiian Islands from shuttle Text and illustrations are copyright by P. Flament (1996)