Articles tagged with: Caves And Lava Tubes
Evolution
Posted: Aug 8, 2010
Evolution, Hawaiian Style Lava Dubautia Alpine Dubautia Hawaii is a world-class showcase of evolutionary process. In fact, in many ways it surpasses the examples from the Galapagos Islands. Hawaii’s extreme isolation coupled with its phenomenal array of life zones allowed for the small pool of...Continue Reading »
Chirps and Trills
Posted: Aug 8, 2010
"Maybe I should write about crickets?" I asked. "Is there enough stuff to write an article on crickets?" Cindy responded. In answer I pulled down Daniel Otte's The Crickets of Hawaii, a 400 page tome on the Orthoptera of our fair islands. Filled with dozens of pages of cryptic graphs and close-up...Continue Reading »
Kona’s Very Own Volcano
Posted: Aug 8, 2010
Crater on Hualalai Photo by: Kirk AederHawaii is a landscape of volcanoes. If you're a visitor to the Big Island, visiting and learning about volcanoes is at the top of the list. That usually means an all day trip from Kona/Kohala to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. But the park isn't the only...Continue Reading »
Micro, Meso, and Macro Cavernous Critters
Posted: Aug 8, 2010
Let your imagination run wild. Visualize a subterranean world, literally underfoot. Tiny cracks in rock a millimeter wide, empty pockets once filled with volcanic gases, wider crack passages which may fit your thumb and even a hand, and also picture large caves that run for miles. Now imagine all...Continue Reading »
Don’t Call Me A Spelunker
Posted: Aug 8, 2010
Speleological, stalactites, stalagmites, troglobites, chemoautotropic the glossary of the underworld is intimidating. So is a descent thirty feet down on a six-inch-wide cable ladder into a dark, unknown hole in the forest. This is the world of cavers and caving (few of us moles use “spelunkers”...Continue Reading »
A Bird’s Bone View of Hawaii
Posted: Aug 8, 2010
Last month a bunch of bird people were in Hilo. They attended the 67th Annual Meeting of the Coopers Society. The Coopers Society publishes The Condor, one of the prestigious journals for ornithological research. Professional researchers, government officials, land managers, and conservationists...Continue Reading »
The Volcano I Sleep On
Posted: Aug 8, 2010
Hualalai is my favorite volcano. Kohala is so eroded and covered in green it lacks that volcanic bite. Mauna Kea is too cluttered with cows and cinder cones. Mauna Loa is so smooth, broad, and immense as to be overwhelming. And Kilauea is too accessible. Hualalai on the other hand has great well...Continue Reading »
