1. Community Involvement ReefTeach

2. The Challenge

3. The Funding

5. Volunteer Monitoring & Community Based Management Educators, Researchers and Managers Collaborate to Engage Coastal Users A Success Story in Hawaii

6. Educate and Involve Issue Information Cutting Edge Research Promise of Future Call to Action Volunteer monitoring

7. Triple Component Approach Collaborative Effort: DAR, UH, UHSGES, DOE and W.Hi.Community 1. Education & Outreach > cross-generations > cross-peers > cross-cultures 2. Volunteer Monitoring 3. Community Based Management Council

8. Narrow Reef Ecosystem Easily Wiped Out

9. ReefTalks 11 Free presentations per year for 8 years Highlight issues of concern Introduce residents to Hawaii’s resource people

10. Aloha Kai West Hawaii Explorations Academy High School Cross-peer Cross-cultural experience

11. ReefTeach WHEA & Volunteers Reef Teach at High Impact Snorkel Beach Teens and Adults Involved

13. WHY IS MONITORING IMPORTANT?

14. ReefTeach Can Make a Difference

15. Constant Education Needed at Kahalu’u

16. Show People How to Avoid Live Coral

17. Kids for Corals Murals at Kahalu’u Donated time and funds: artist worked with 5 th grade, contractor framed and hung, private donations for plexi, frame material and painting

19. 4 MOST FREQENT SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS

20. HELP FOR KAHALU’U’S SIGNS ! Uncle Dick & Roy Roy’s Holding This End

21. Girl Scouts Thank you for your help ! The corals thank you for your help!

22. ReefWatchers Volunteer Monitoring Training Fish Identification

23. ReefWatcher Goals Build community understanding marine resource management concepts Record change over time Provide data useful for DAR Involve community Monitor introduced and/or invasive sp

24. ReefWatcher Program Identify data needs Community members are trained to develop and carry out survey protocols to meet those needs Provide ongoing education opportunities

25. ReefWatchers Begin Meet DAR and UH Requirements –By Laws –Liability Release –Medical –PADI Diving & Snorkeling Procedures –SCUBA C Card & Insurance –Accident Reporting

26. Protocols Developed & In Use Tidepool Survey Kahaluu Fish Feeding/No Feeding Survey Human Impact With Substrate >SCUBA & Snorkelers Individual Surveys >Point-to-Point, “Beltless Transects”

27. WHAT HAS REEFWATCHERS DONE? AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS LET’S REVIEW…

28. HUMAN IMPACT SURVEY RESULTS Human Impact on Substrate - SCUBA –Impacts per diver = 3.1 (233 divers observed) –Impact categories and location use analyzed –Ecological briefings rated

29. Human Impact Survey Uses Dive Charter Operators –Receive their own data as a subset of totals –Operators and Resource Managers  Use data to determine use of mooring buoys  Use data to identify ways to reduce impact  Use data to estimate future impact as numbers of divers increase

30. Bob & Eve at Honaunau Transects

31. REEFWATCHERS’ Data Contributions Honaunau: Bob Flatt, Eve Bullinger Hookena: David Shen Keauhou: Ann Guth, David Hoopaugh Kahalu’u: Marjorie & Duayne Erway & Leonard Torricer, WHEA Old Airport: Jim & MaryLinda Passon, WHEA Keahole: Jim & Norma Lathrop, Donna Lavorin Makaiwa(Mauna Lani): Susan Hunt Puako: Bob Teytaud

32. Bob T’s Tidepool Site at Puako

33. Bob Flatt’s Beltless Transect at Honaunau

34. NEED MORE MONITORING COVERAGE  Coral Cover  Fish  Inverts  Tidepools  Sand /Mudflat Communities  Human Use  Water Quality

35. Benefits to the Resource and Management Community participation Education for all ages Support for DAR initiatives Data collection over time (years) Ocean USERS involved Legislative action

36. RESULTS Regional Fishery Management Area 9 FRAs established Over 6000 people/ year Community members are involved Difficult issues Working together

37. You buy the ‘kit’ for $15 includes a fish ID card, and data input directions. Goes to national database. Three levels of competency Kona dive shops interested Maui is using this survey method Random Swim Surveys as You Dive

38. The Largest International Coral Reef Monitoring Program Involving Sport Divers and Scientists Can be done one or more times per year We should contribute to this database

39. YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE JOIN REEFWATCHERS DO WHATEVER YOU FEEL IS MOST IMPORTANT