Oceanographic Pathways Institute

Hooray! Big Island reef restoration launch.

Coral Reef Restoration Project Launched On Hawaiʻi Island KAʻŪPŪLEHU, Hawaiʻi - The Nature Conservancy, Hawai‘i and Palmyra, and the Kaʻūpūlehu Marine Life Advisory Committee launched Kanu Ko‘a on October 30th.

Big news! Sunken ships off Midway found!

Video provides first clear views of WWII aircraft carriers lost in the pivotal Battle of Midway Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway and could help solve mysteries about the days-long barrage that marked a shift in control of the Pacific theater from Japanese to U.S. forces.

A start? Yet these actions, albeit laudatory, are still far downstream of the origin of this enormous problem!

Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world.

Shout out! Nevertheless, this is only the tip of the proverbial plastic-berg.

The End of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch