Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program
I worked with the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (CIMAR), a research institute jointly sponsored by NOAA and the University of Hawaiʻi, on their Hawaiian monk seal field research program in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The work involves deploying to remote atolls in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands where small teams live in basic tent camps for months at a time, conducting daily surveys, tagging weaned pups, documenting births and injuries, performing life-saving interventions like disentangling seals from marine debris, and collecting critical data to support recovery of this threatened species.
