Summary of HI-MDAP Coordination Call - NOAA Inouye Regional Center - Hawaii

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Here, some information regarding the data collection and policy part of their discussion:

Data Collection  

NOAA MDAP promotes a national shoreline monitoring protocol and marine debris tracker app (http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/partnerships/marine-debris-tracker)

An other mobile data collection app will be promoting this September by ICC:  the Clean Swell app (more info on: http://www.oceanconservancy.org/do-your-part/about-clean-swell.html). © Chris Woolaway, Hawai'i State ICC Coordinator

A master student at Hawaii University is analysing ICC data from 2008-current.

No update on the 2015 data from the TransPac race yet.

The entire shoreline of the 8 main Hawaiian Islands were analysed thanks to a Cessna 206 airplane to take high resolution aerial imagery to 2 cm resolution, from large abandoned shipping containers to small plastic detergent bottles. "In the end, we had identified over 20 000 points and were able to map the marine debris hotspots for each island" © Kirsten Moy, Marine Debris Coordinator, Division of Aquatic Resources

Policy

A potential hearing in April 2016 for the Styrofoam ban (Bill 140) © Stuart Coleman, Surfrider Hawai'i

For more information you can contact Grace Chon, Marine Debris PIR Assistant Coordinator, NOAA Affiliate, Honolulu

And you ! Have you information to share regarding new data collection and policy in your area ?

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  1. Aloha all. In addition to our High-Resolution Aerial Imagery Final Report, we will have the aerial imagery hosted on the public servers at the Hawaii Office of Planning's GIS program available for free download. That imagery should be available by summer 2016. The data our analysts compiled on marine debris sightings in the imagery will also be made available by that time. Our study partners are the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative and Resource Mapping HI  and they are available to assist future projects with similar ambitions and adapt our methodology for further monitoring studies.  

     

    I will post the final report to this platform for anyone who is interested in reviewing the study, and you can contact me at Kirsten.v.moy@hawaii.gov or at kirstenvmoy@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments. Thank you everyone for providing a forum to talk more about our project! We're very excited at what the team has accomplished and hope we can help wherever needed. 

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    1. Thank you Kirsten to share all your interesting Hawaii data into the platform.
      It's a really nice overview of the marine debris density for the Main Hawaiian Islands. Did you have an explanation why Niihau island seems to be the most invaded coast by marine debris during August-November 2015 period? In the forward to reading your final report, kind regards.