Letter from the Editor Photo credit: Tate Wester, UHM MOP Student
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ast month, MOP went “On Air,” with UH-Hilo MOP student Zach Higgins, who for his MOP Project is hosting “MOP Talk,” a radio show about all things MOP. He will be archiving all his shows so listeners can hear old podcasts (including an interview with Seawords in the November 9 podcast).
You can tune in every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., either online at http://www.uhhradio. com or on a mobile device by downloading the radioflag app at http://www.radioflag. com/#. The station ID is @ihilo. To learn more, you can flip to page 14 to read the interview Associate Editor, Brijonnay Madrigal wrote. On page 6, UHM MOP employee and student Tate Wester, shares his summer MOP adventure aboard the Reef Assesment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) NOAA cruise, that explored the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Also in this issue, readers can learn about recent research regarding ocean acidification and corals as well as a strange phenomenon that is allowing species not usually found to show up on the West Coast.
Thank you for reading,
--Kathryn Lam, Seawords Editor 4|
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