HONOLULU, Oct. 7 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:
New research led by University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program (Hawai'i Sea Grant), UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), and U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a 253-year old core from a massive coral colony at Olowalu Reef off West Maui to reconstruct how Olowalu has changed over time, what has driven those changes, and what restoring healthy connections between land and sea may mean for the reef's future.
The study, published in Coral Reefs, analyzed the coral core from approximately 1760 to 2013 which provided a rare glimpse into the conditions that began before large-scale changes to the West Maui landscape following Western...