UH / USGS Rapid Response Team Field Study

UH / USGS Rapid Response Team Field Study
Last weekend, Greta Aeby, head of UH marine biology department, her assistant Amanda and Thierry Work, head of Infectious Disease for the USGS were in Kauai on my behalf to do a major coral disease study at Anini Beach.

Currently this disease has now spread to over hundreds of thousands of corals killing each coral at over one inch a week! Nowhere has there ever been such a fast spreading coral die-off... this disease may also be affecting fish, turtles and humans!I have filed many reports about this disease with almost all of the Kauai politicians from Gary Hooser, Mel Rapozo, DOH, DLNR, Surfrider, The Sierra Club, The River Hui all the way to the USFWS and NOAA in Honolulu. Most of those reports went un-noticed so I finally asked UH to come help me out with this study.

Please tune into KKCR Radio 91.9 FM in Kauai today from 4:00 to 6:00 as I will be on the air talking about the health of our reefs, this new disease outbreak and how all of this may effect the surfing, diving, fishing and tourist industry here on Kauai. You can also call in with questions and your own personal observations.

Read the full report and the full-size slideshow at:

hawaii-reef.com