An event in celebration of the International Year of the Reef, organized by the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i. 

Volunteers are needed to help clear marine debris from the Kahuku coastline on Thursday 4th September, 2:45pm - 5:15pm. Volunteers are also needed to help with the following:  set up 1:30pm - 2:30pm, check in desk/support crew 2:30pm - 5:15pm, pack up at 5:15pm - 6pm, gate/parking attendant/s 1:30pm - 5:15pm, transporting debris in pick up trucks.  Please call 393 2168 if you can help with any of these positions or if you have a pick-up truck and can assist.

To register for the beach clean-up, please phone 393 2168 by Tuesday September 2nd.  Directions and parking information will be given to registered participants. Please bring your own water container, a bucket, clipboard & pen, and wear hat, sunscreen and sturdy walking shoes.  Rakes and sand sifters are also useful to bring if you have them.  Bags and gloves will be provided. A prize drawing will take place at the end of the clean-up.  To be elegible for the prize drawing, participants must register for the clean-up and be present at the drawing which will take place at the end of the clean-up.  Prizes include:  David Helvarg’s book “50 Ways to Save the Ocean”, International Year of the Reef t-shirts, B.E.A.C.H. reusable shopping bags, EcoUsable water bottles, Kale’s Natural Foods gift basket.

Participants include:  Roz Savage, Blue Frontier Campaign, JUNK crew, Algalita Marine Research Foundation and B.E.A.C.H. This event is being sponsored by Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i, Blue Frontier Campaign, EcoUsable, Kale’s Natural Foods. Mahalo to James Campbell Company, City and County of Honolulu.

For more information, please visit the B.E.A.C.H website: www.b-e-a-c-h.org

“E Malama Maunalua”

During September, the Hanauma Bay Education Program will partner with Malama Maunalua for a month of information sharing.  All events are free and open to the public.
Join us on Thursday evenings and learn about Maunalua’s history, reef life, the environmental issues that this fascinating Bay is facing, and community efforts to restore it.   Programs begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Hanauma Bay Theater.  Parking is free after 5:30 p.m.

On Thursday September 25th

Place-Based Education Connections at Maunalua Bay (2 presentations)

Navigating Change at Maunalua
Matt Limtiaco, Coordinator of the Navigating Change Educational Program will describe the  array of place-based educational activities developing in area schools and how these are becoming linked across the Maunalua region.  To learn more about the program visit http://hawaiireef.noaa.gov/education/NavChange.html

Maunalua Makai Watch
Mahi La Pierre, Malama Maunalua Makai Watch Coordinator, will describe  the Makai Watch program elements (history, culture, ecology, outreach, biological and human use monitoring) and discuss how these are being implemented at Maunalua. To learn more about the Maunalua Makai Watch program visit www.malamamaunalua.org

“E Malama Maunalua”

During September, the Hanauma Bay Education Program will partner with Malama Maunalua for a month of information sharing.  All events are free and open to the public.
Join us on Thursday evenings and learn about Maunalua’s history, reef life, the environmental issues that this fascinating Bay is facing, and community efforts to restore it.   Programs begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Hanauma Bay Theater.  Parking is free after 5:30 p.m.

On Thursday September 18th,
Cultural Connections at Maunalua Bay (2 presentations)

Van James, artist and  author of “Ancient Sites of Oahu” (Bishop Museum Press), will discuss Legendary Sites of East O’ahu.

Chris Cramer Executive Director of the Maunalua Fishpond Heritage Center will present  Preserving Maunalua’s Last Fishponds, the organization’s initiative to protect and restore coastal fishponds and related sites.  To learn more about this exciting new initiative visit http://maunaluafishpondheritage.com

“E Malama Maunalua”

During September, the Hanauma Bay Education Program will partner with Malama Maunalua for a month of information sharing.  All events are free and open to the public.
Join us on Thursday evenings and learn about Maunalua’s history, reef life, the environmental issues that this fascinating Bay is facing, and community efforts to restore it.   Programs begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Hanauma Bay Theater.  Parking is free after 5:30 p.m.
On Thursday September 4th
Malama Maunalua Restoration Initiatives
Eric Co of NOAA Community Restoration Program, will be at Hanauma Bay to discuss community marine resource monitoring and restoration efforts at Maunalua Bay  To learn more about restoration work at Maunalua Bay  visit www.malamamaunalua.org

“E Malama Maunalua”

During September, the Hanauma Bay Education Program will partner with Malama Maunalua for a month of information sharing. All events are free and open to the public. Join us on Thursday evenings and learn about Maunalua’s history, reef life, the environmental issues that this fascinating Bay is facing, and community efforts to restore it. Programs begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Hanauma Bay Theater. Parking is free after 5:30 p.m. On Thursday September 11th Lecture TBA

Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal, eco-mariners from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, are scheduled to arrive in Ala Wai harbor fuel dock after completing a 3 month voyage from California to Honolulu aboard JUNK – a raft made from 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310. Their incredible voyage calls attention to the increasing environmental problem of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean.CONTACT: Anna Cummins, (310) 998-8616

Hanalei Watershed Hui Presents:
He Puko’a kani ‘aina
A coral reef that grows in to an island

Celebrating our 10th anniversary and the International Year of the Reef

10-4 Sat. August 30, 2008
Blackpot Park, Hanalei

Please join us for water quality demonstrations, free kayak rides, family ocean activities and live entertainment!

Come see our new mobile laboratory

In celebration of The International Year of the Reef, Malama Hawai’i will host Sunset on the Beach Sunday, August 31st at Waikiki Beach.  Come enjoy a free evening of great music, movies and hands-on family fun activities while learning how to protect Hawaii’s living coral reefs. 

Film: Horton Hears a Who 

Time: Booths and food open at 5pm, music starts at 5:30pm, and movie begins at 7:30pm

Music: Leokane Pryor and Friends

Extras: Interactive learning booths on reef and ocean conservation, scheduled apperance by the “JUNK” raft, crafts, games, prizes, and much more!

Saturday August 23rd at Sunset on Hanalei Bay
(7:30 pm - Aku road at Weke)
Featuring films about:
Marine Resources, Ocean Recreation, and our
Cultural Connections to the Sea.
“Bad Neighbors.” 
Shows marine creatures doing all the things we do to their homes - the ocean - to our home, from over-fishing to polluting. The take-home Message is: Would we want this to happen to our home? Then why do we do it to theirs?

“Once Upon a Tide”
   A live action and animated tale about a time when the people were under a spell, that made them forget about the ocean. Told through the unique voice of Academy-Award winner Linda Hunt, this mystical fairy tale inspires us to recognize the importance of ocean conservation. Made by the Center for Health and the Global Environment, at Harvard Medical School

“El Mar Mi Alma … and a land that cradles the sea”
Follows professional free surfer Dave Rastovich on a ground breaking journey along the coastline of South
America’s Chile. The challenge: to ride the huge winter swells that pound Chile’s rugged coast and use his celebrity status within the surfing world to promote marine mammal conservation and the  preservation of our fragile coastal environments.

“The Wayfinders of Polynesia”
Starring Nainoa Thompson of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, the travels of the voyaging canoe Hokule’a,
 a replica of the ancient vessels that explored the Pacific. The crew uses the ancient methods of celestial navigation and the direction, size, speed, and distance between waves to find the islands in a vast sea.
The film was made by Andrew Gregg and Wade Davis, an Explorer-In-Residence with National Geographic, who began filming in 2004 in Hanalei Bay, and followed the story to Polynesia.

PLUS FILMS BY INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS:
Will Winneguth, Cheyne Tasic, Brady Cushway, and PSA’s from the DLNR, DAR, and the Hawaiian Monk Seal Hui

Hawai’i Ocean Observing System’s series of public talks highlights what UH-Manoa researchers are learning about Hawai’i’s waters. Talks are at 6 p.m. every second Wednesday at Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach. www.hioos.org. Free. Validated parking is $5. ph: 923-0711.

“Water Quality and Health of Hawai’i’s Coastal Recreational Waters,” Grieg Steward, assistant professor, Department of Oceanography, UH-Manoa.