Photo Galleries and Multimedia Resources

Photo Galleries of Kane‘ohe Bay Species

The Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island is located in Kane‘ohe Bay on the northeast shore of O‘ahu. Kane‘ohe Bay is a unique environment that houses thousands of different species of tropical marine life. The bay is composed of many different habitats, including patch reefs, mangroves, sandy and muddy bottoms, and “spurs and grooves.”

In these galleries you will find photographs of some of the species that live in Kane‘ohe Bay. All images are arranged in alphabetical order according to scientific name (common names and Native Hawaiian names are listed as well when available).

Blue-lined surgeonfish (Acanthurus lineatus)

NOTE: All photos are courtesy of Mark Mohlmann (mohlmann@hawaii.edu) and may not be duplicated without permission.

Multimedia Resources

Video Clips

We are continually adding new resources to this site. Please enjoy the video clips listed below:

Students at a Honolulu charter school with environmental education as its foundation learn about research techniques at HIMB’s facilities on Coconut Island. Download the 3.8 MB file now.
KHON (Fox) focuses on research being conducted at HIMB (35 MB)
KGMB (CBS) covers Dr. Kim Holland's tiger shark research
Part 1 (40 MB), Part 2 (54 MB)
KITV (ABC) reports on HIMB research on shark electroreception (47 MB)

Giant Sea Jelly
This animal, rare in Hawaiian waters, measured over two feet in diameter! It was brought to Coconut Island for a short time, and then released.
How do you test the hearing of a great whale?
The 2001 Edwin Pauley Summer Program in Marine Biology focused on cetacean audiometrics.
Tiger Shark Research in Kona, Hawaii
The HIMB Shark Research Group conducts a tag and release study of tiger sharks in the Hawaiian Islands.
Electroreception in juvenile sharks
Graduate students in the HIMB Shark Research Group are currently studying how hammerhead sharks and sandbar sharks detect and respond to electric fields.

These video clips are best viewed with the latest version of Apple's QuickTime Movie Player. If you don’t have it, you can download it for free.

Visit the “HIMB in the News” Archive to see other news listings from 2003 to 2005.

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