Saturday, April 23, 2022
HPA Marine Studeis Program Participates in Earth Day
Laura Jim, Marc Rice and two HPA students volunteered to participate in the Earth Day clean up and educational activity at the Puako launch ramp on Saturday morning. Students were up early for a 0730 departure to Puako. They helped set up the booth with our informational materials where we focused on our HPA Sea Turtle Research Program, HPA's sea turtle rescue response program and information on fishing interactions with Hawaiian honu. The morning also involved collecting debris and cataloging it. There were 30 or 40 participants there and they collected a lot of trash!
Ms. Jim, Luke and Alden helped with the cleanup and the trash weigh-in for record keeping purposes.
The activities lasted from 0800 until 1200 hours.
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| Cynthia Ho Briefs the volunteers and does a round-robin introduction with all of the groups represented. |
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| The HPA team from left to right: Alden, Luke and Ms. Jim. |
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| The HPA Team |
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| Some of the HPA STRP program handouts and displays. |
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| The Mumau family (HPA faculty) joined in the Cleanup. |
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| Ms Jim sorting, weighing and recording all the trash that was collected. |
