Click above to go to the Kolea Watch website!

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Kolea Watch is a project of the GK-12 Program at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

The program is designed to bring inquiry-based scientific research into classrooms of all ages.

GK-12 funding comes from the National Science Foundation through the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program at UH,

Ken Kaneshiro PI; Don Young, Sheila Conant, and Bob Kinzie co-PI’s.

Kolea Watch partners include the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Hawai’i Audubon Society, Hawai’i Nature Center,

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Kohala Center, Waipa Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, University Laboratory School,

and K-12 schools public and private across the state.

Kolea Watch began during a meeting in December, 2000 with Ann Bell Hudgins of USFWS and Gustav Bodner of the UH GK-12 Program.

It was also inspired by the long-term research of Wally and Patricia Johnson, and Phil and Andrea Bruner,

and the profound knowledge of nature of the Hawaiian people – and of course by the wonderful birds themselves!

Mahalo Nui Loa to all!