Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, is a pupping ground for the scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, the pups being most abundant between April and October. While in the bay, the pups stay in the most turbid areas by day and ...

A plume of turbid, CaCO3-laden water (0.24 mg/liter) is expelled from English Harbor, Fanning Atoll, on outgoing tides. On incoming tides, the concentration is 0.36 mg CaCO3/liter. At the two other passes of the atoll, ...

Clypeaster isolatus sp. nov. is described from 61 specimens taken off San Felix Island. It is distinguished by its concave oral side, moderately high test (23 to 36 percent of the test length), broad paired petals, primary ...

The concentrations of total and particulate organic carbon in the waters of Fanning Island Lagoon are high and fairly uniform throughout, averaging 1.68 mg/liter and 80 µg/liter, respectively. Phytoplankton and reefs in ...

Lack of light and excessive sediment deposition rates are factors limiting coral reef development. The presence of very turbid water and muddy bottom does not mean, however, that coral growth is prohibited. Fanning ...

As part of the Fanning Island Expedition 1970, selected physical studies were conducted in the atoll lagoon. The major effort was the measurement of volume, salt, and heat transports through the three main atoll openings ...