Aloha, Papahanamokuakea on 16th of November!

We had a guest speaker at USDA today.
His name is Yumi-san. He is really nice speaker!

I met him at Mokupapapa Discovery Center at the downtown Hilo.

People can learn about the Northwestern Hawai'i Islands (they are also parts of Hawai'i) at the center. If you want to find out more, please google it. (everything seems to search through it.)

I used to volunteer there ( I will re-volunteer sooner.) since I love ocean.

Yumi-san has been to the Papahanamokuakea National Monument as a NOAA staff by the ship for almost 1 month. The monument is protected by the U.S. and only allows scientists, researchers, religious practitioners, and the people who have permission to enter the monument.

I invited him to share his knowledge about there with us at USDA.

He is a really good educator.

All of the pictures were taken by Yumi-san when he was on the Northwestern Hawai'i islands for research.
One of his job, I believe was counting fishes. I am sure that he has encountered many sea creatures and new things each dive. The research has been done once a year.



I am very interested in the marine debris.
Many pieces of plastics are floating on, in, and under oceans for years.

We are creating other massive landfills at oceans.

I say we have waterfills (trash areas in oceans).

The Hawi'i islands have had impact of marine debris from all over the world. You can see trash on beaches and at oceans. I picked up the trash written in Japanese at the green sand beach, one of the Hawai'i island's beach. It was come from Japan! The industrialization seems to create the plastic dream ocean.
The sea birds, sea turtles, fishes, and jelly fishes are eating pieces of plastics and trash because they are similar to their food....

Plastics never be composted but remains their forms.....becomes smaller pieces until we can not see by our vision.....but, they are there.....will be never disappeared........

I want to know facts at oceans.
Yumi-san is one of the people who can educate us to be award of the truth.

All pictures we saw from his presentation made us felt as if we were on the Northwestern Hawai'i islands. The islands become more closer to us.

I am very glad to have him at USDA.
Mahalo nui loa e (thank you very much for) coming! We kealoha (love) you!





Hope, we have much better future for our future keiki (children)!!