Map of the Northwestern Hawaiian islands / Image borrowed from this website
For six months during the spring and summer of 2016, I teamed up with NOAA’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program as artist in resident. After a month of training in Honolulu, I worked as an embedded member of a three-person field camp at Pearl & Hermes atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. During the residency, I worked as a field biologist collecting important population assessment data on the Hawaiian monk seal. I will use the experience of working as a field biologist to inform a new body of work focused on wildlife conservation and environmental stewardship.
An exhibition of work based on this research will debut in the fall of 2017. In the meantime, I will update my site with pictures and notes about my collaboration with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program and my time in the field.
More information can be found on the RESEARCH and BLOG pages of this website.
This project is approved under the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument permit No. PMNM-2016-011 and National Marine Fisheries Service permit No. 16332-01.
An exhibition of work based on this research will debut in the fall of 2017. In the meantime, I will update my site with pictures and notes about my collaboration with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program and my time in the field.
More information can be found on the RESEARCH and BLOG pages of this website.
This project is approved under the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument permit No. PMNM-2016-011 and National Marine Fisheries Service permit No. 16332-01.
Satellite image of Pearl & Hermes atoll / Image borrowed from THIS website
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