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This expansive marine protected area spanning the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is the primary focus of the Pacific RAMP cruise.
What is Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Sanctuary?
This Hilo-based discovery center serves as the primary public outreach and educational gateway for learning about the remote monument.
What is the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center?
This Hawaiian term for responsibility or duty guides humankind to care for and listen to the wisdom of the elder islands.
What is kuleana?
Growing up to 50 feet long, these massive migratory marine mammals use the shallow waters for calving and nursing.
What are humpback whales?
Known for its pure white feathers and distinct black eye rings, this graceful coastal bird is also called the white tern.
What is the Manu O Kū?
Ray left some stow aways aboard the Sette, what/who are they?
What are Legos/Lance and Axel?
Known as "SCUBA", this acronym is gear that lets divers work for extended periods below the ocean's surface.
What is Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus?
Launched in 1975, this famous double-hulled Hawaiian voyaging canoe shares its name with the zenith star Arcturus.
What is the Hōkūleʻa?
This state fish of Hawai'i, famous for its very long Hawaiian name, is a type of triggerfish found in these waters.
What is the humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, Rhinecanthus rectangulus, or RHRE?
This iconic, endangered fan palm found on Nihoa shares its traditional Hawaiian name with the word for a local style of house or shelter.
What is Loulu (Pritchardia remota)?
This red and white flag flown by a research vessel indicates that the ship has restricted maneuverability due to ongoing deployment work.
What is the 'Alfa' (A) flag?
This sampling method used on RAMP cruises analyzes genetic material shed by organisms into the water to map biodiversity.
What is eDNA (environmental DNA)?
In Native Hawaiian cosmogony, the very first ancestor named in this profound creation chant is the coral polyp, linking genealogy directly to the monument.
What is the Kumulipo?
This large, powerful apex predator fish with the Hawaiian name ulua is also known by what other name(s)?
What is the Giant Trevally, Caranx ignobilis, or CAIG?
Nicknamed kaʻupu, this dark-plumaged albatross species breeds alongside the Laysan on the low-lying atolls of the monument.
What is the Black-footed Albatross?
NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette was named after a scientist specializing in what?
What is a fisheries scientist?
Tracking the presence of these damaging events in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands helps scientists gauge thermal stress and pathogen outbreaks on corals.
What are coral diseases (or coral bleaching)?
Discovered by NOAA maritime archaeologists, these two earliest known wrecks in the monument went down on the exact same stormy night in 1822 at the atoll that now shares their hyphenated name.
What are the Pearl and the Hermes?
Located at the very end of the chain, this atoll holds the title of the northernmost coral reef in the world.
What is Kure Atoll?
This flightless duck species, endemic to a single small island in the chain, represents a major focus of bird conservation efforts.
What is the Laysan duck?
Known now as the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette (R 335), this ship originally served the U.S. Navy as the Stalwart-class tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship from 1988 to 1992, and was named what?
What is USNS Adventurous (T-AGOS-13)?
This is the specific scientific name of the cryptic red alga discovered forming smothering mats in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
What is Chondria tumulosa?
The name Papahānaumokuākea honors an ancient Hawaiian tradition and combines the earth mother Papa with this sky father figure.
What is Ākea?
Discovered during the 2007 deep-sea submersible missions in the monument, seven new species of this deep-water organism were found living thousands of feet below the surface.
What is bamboo coral?
The last hurricane to directly pass over and make impact on Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Sanctuary in early October 2018.
What is hurricane Walaka?