Shorebirds a reminder of Hawaii’s Alaska link

• By Susan Scott
• June 30, 2018
• 4

In some ways Alaska and Hawaii are worlds apart. But after my weeklong work with Pacific golden plovers in Nome, I learned that we also have much in common. Read more

Plover study and tracking in Alaska a pure delight

• By Susan Scott
• June 23, 2018
• 1

When I told kolea researcher Wally Johnson that I wished I could spend my summer solstice birthday in Alaska, he invited me to join his plover study team. Read more

Flatworms and sea sapphires add sparkle to coral reefs

• By Susan Scott
• June 16, 2018

As much as I loved swimming with millions of lovely, pulsing salps last week, their gelatinous bodies obscured the hard and soft corals below. Read more

Swimming with salps a pleasant experience

• By Susan Scott
• June 9, 2018
• 1

This week I swam with several million of the weirdest and most captivating animals off Orpheus Island in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Read more

Hands-on exploration is best way to learn

• By Susan Scott
• June 2, 2018
• 1

I’ve just flown to Townsville, Australia, where we now keep our sailboat, Honu. Read more

Brittle stars can regrow missing limbs if attacked

• By Susan Scott
• May 26, 2018

Finding several brittle stars while snorkeling this week reminded me of an invertebrate zoology class I took long ago at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Read more

April storm washes up dead fish in Kailua

• By Susan Scott
• May 19, 2018
• 1

Volunteers bring aloha to students in Bangladesh

• By Susan Scott
• May 12, 2018
• 1

Bangladesh is one of the last places you would expect to hear hundreds of schoolchildren shouting, “Aloha!” but it’s happening in a town called Di­najpur. Read more

White terns to be focus of upcoming party at zoo

• By Susan Scott
• May 5, 2018

Few seabirds get their own annual party, but then, white terns are not your average seabirds. Read more

UH study offers clue about groups of honu

• By Susan Scott
• April 28, 2018
• 1

Last year several readers who live along Kaneohe Bay wrote that large green sea turtles were hanging out at the shoreline of their waterfront homes. Read more

Kolea ready for spring migration to Alaska

• By Susan Scott
• April 21, 2018
• 2

Plover admirers, this is the week to wish your neighborhood kolea safe travels. Read more

World’s second-largest snail can be found in Hawaii

• By Susan Scott
• April 14, 2018
• 2

Trumpet snails are one of the crown-of-thorns starfish’s few predators. Read more

Samoan crab resembling sea monster is protected

• By Susan Scott
• April 7, 2018
• 18

Samoan crabs are so popular here that the state protects the population by law. Read more

Moray eel gives chase to fleeing Ambon toby

• By Susan Scott
• March 31, 2018
• 7

It’s a fish-eat-fish world out on the reef, so seeing one species chase another isn’t usually a sight that has my heart pounding as I fumble for my camera. But this time the predator was scary and the prey poisonous. Read more

Urchins can use seaweed hat to feed themselves

• By Susan Scott
• March 24, 2018
• 3

Opal seaweed is native to the warm Indian, Pacific and western Atlantic oceans, growing from tide pools to waters 150 feet deep. It’s also native to Hawaii, meaning it got here without a lift from human hands or hulls, drifting hundreds or even thousands of miles to our islands. Read more

Nudibranchs are among the prettiest ocean critters

• By Susan Scott
• March 17, 2018
• 1

Nudibranchs are snails without shells. The common name of these animals is sea slugs. Read more

Stone money and gobies in Palau and Yap

• By Susan Scott
• March 10, 2018

With about 2,000 species, gobies form the largest fish family in the world. Read more

Yap’s unique stone money acts as hard currency

• By Susan Scott
• March 3, 2018
• 2

Besides meeting some of the friendliest people on the planet here, it’s the only place where money is as big as manta rays. Read more