Volunteers
- West Hawaii Explorations Academy, Kailua-Kona, HI
- Site: Honokahou Harbor Fuel Dock
- Description: Aloha from Hawaii and the West Hawaii Explorations Academy. Samples are collected from the Honokahou Harbor Fuel Dock.
We go out every Monday to get a sample and then students analyze it during the week when they have time. We have our own plankton laboratory with 5 microscopes and a MIC-D digital scope. The students seem to be very exicited about the project, and they are always asking if they can go to the lab and count plankton! That's crazy since we are an outdoor charter school (that's right...our school has no buildings) that is focused on marine science inquiry based projects. All writing essays come from student or teacher directed projects. Hence, we are writing and learning a lot about plankton, HABs, and the effects on the marine ecosystem.
