Honolulu Hybrid Talk Explores Unwanted But Not Unstoppable Seaweed
Marine Biologist Angela Richards Doná discusses “The Spread of an Invasive Hitchhiking Seaweed to the Main Hawaiian Islands Needn't Be Inevitable” at an ARCS Honolulu Pau Hana event on September 3.
The session will explore a recently identified but rapidly spreading Chondria tumulosa. The fast-growing alga is smothering native limu and coral in the Papahānaumakuākea National Marine Sanctuary and is likely to thrive in degraded ecosystems, making damaged reefs vulnerable.
A postdoctoral fellow in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Limu Lab, Dr. Doná will talk about how (and where!) the Limu Lab team is working to prevent this catastrophe, why the science matters, and who may be our unlikely allies in this endeavor.
Details at tinyurl.com/ARCS-seaweed
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