NOAA Holling's interns helping at a HIHWNMS outreach table during an event at Lahainaluna High School. Photo: Lizzy BeatoChildren race to complete marine life puzzles at a HIHWNMS outreach table. While completing this puzzle, outreach volunteers and staff teach the participants about the animal's anatomy to help them solve the puzzle! Photo: Lizzy BeatoNOAA Holling's interns helping at a HIHWNMS outreach table during an event at Lahainaluna High School. Photo: Lizzy BeatoA child coloring a turtle craft at the HIHWNMS outreach station at a community event in Lahaina, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoChildren race to complete marine life puzzles at a HIHWNMS outreach table. While completing this puzzle, outreach volunteers and staff teach the participants about the animal's anatomy to help them solve the puzzle! Photo: Lizzy BeatoA child colors some marine wildlife crafts while wearing their newly created shark hat at the HIHWNMS outreach booth. Photo: Lizzy BeatoHIHWNMS outreach station at a community event in Lahaina, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoHumpback whale craft celebrating World Ocean Month 2024 at a community event in Lahaina, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoWorld Ocean Month whale craft on display outside of the HIHWNMS visitor center in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoHIHWNMS volunteers Jeep and Linda helping with an outreach table at the Maui Ocean Center to celebrate World Ocean Day, 2024. Photo: Lizzy BeatoThird grade students dissecting an albatross bolus, an aggregation of items that the albatross is not able to digest, and instead, throws back up. Items that are commonly found in the albatross boluses from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands include squid beaks, fishing line, and pieces of plastic. Photo: Lizzy BeatoStudents build edible corals in a lesson at HIHWNMS. In this lesson, students learn about coral anatomy and about zooxanthellae, a symbiotic algae that creates food for the corals using photosynthesis. Photo: Lizzy BeatoTwo of our HIHWNMS volunteers, Kathleen and Grenn showing off their crafts as they help with an outreach station on World Oceans Day 2024. Photo: Lizzy BeatoThe visitor center for the HIHWNMS in Kihei, HI is open! Photo: Lizzy BeatoView of the humpback whale statue that welcomes visitors to the HIHWNMS visitor center in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoView of the local hawaiian fishpond located steps from the HIHWNMS visitor center in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoView of the local hawaiian fishpond located steps from the HIHWNMS visitor center in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoView of the HIHWNMS visitor center's back deck that faces the shoreline in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoKids crafts and puzzle area in the HIHWNMS visitor's center in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoThe HIHWNMS's inflatable humpback whale set up for an outdoor event in Oahu, HI. Photo: Paul WongHIHWNMS volunteer teaches children about humpback whale anatomy while inside the sanctuary's inflatable humpback whale. Photo: Paul WongView from the UAS (uncrewed aerial system) as it is about to drop a suction cup tag onto an entangled whale's back. Photo: Zadra. Permit #24359Eden Zang and Maura Schonwald remove an acoustic monitoring device from one of our Maui sites to collect recorded data and complete routine maintenance on the recorder. Photo: Jason MooreThe HIHWNMS vessel, Kohola, conducting research in sanctuary waters with a group of humpback whales nearby. Photo: Jason Moore. Permit #24359View from the sanctuary's UAS (uncrewed aerial system) as it drops a suction cup tag onto an entangled humpback whale. Photo: Ed Lyman. Permit #24359An endangered Hawaiian monk seal rests on the beach adjacent to the HIHWNMS site in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoAn endangered Hawaiian monk seal rests on the beach adjacent to the HIHWNMS site in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoAn endangered Hawaiian monk seal rests on the beach adjacent to the HIHWNMS site in Kihei, HI. Photo: Lizzy BeatoResearchers Dr. Adam Pack and Dr. Marc Lammers posing on HINMS r/v Kohola with the stars of "Wild Krats", Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt, as well as cameraman Nick Shaw after they filmed an episode featuring the research conducted at HIHWNMS. Photo: Julia Zeh