SMMILE For Marine Mammals!
We’re learning about marine mammal research and traditional navigation practices as part of SMMILE—the Summer Marine Mammal Intensive Learning Experience for Hawaiʻi high school students entering their junior or senior year. We head to the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) with SMMILE program coordinators Kirby Parnell and Brijonnay Madrigal to learn about studies being conducted by the Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP). Then, we visit the Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy (KVA) and talk with SMMILE student alumni—about what they learned and about how the SMMILE program affected their career paths.
Watch the trailer for Season 10, Episode 5 on Vimeo, or YouTube, or on Vimeo with English Subtitles.
Telly Awards Winner!
- SMMILE For Marine Mammals! is a Gold Telly Awards Winner in Nature & Wildlife!
- Visit the Gold Telly Awards page here.
- The episode also won a Bronze Telly Awards Winner for Television programming covering an Educational Institution!
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Curriculum Connections:
- Grade 4: Information Processing
- Activity: Echolocating with Dolphins
- Further Investigations: Harmonizing with Humpbacks
- Grades 6-12: Introduction to Mammals and Marine Mammals
- Structure and Function, Activities: Identifying Cetaceans and Measuring Whale Dimensions
- Adaptations, Activity: Insulation in Marine Mammals
- Energy Acquisition, Activity: Whale Feeding Strategies
- Compare-Contrast-Connect: Marine Mammal Decline and Conservation
- NOAA Education Collection: Marine Mammals
- At Home in the Monument: New Research Shows Koholā Widespread in Papahānaumokuākea
- National Marine Sanctuaries: Whale Resource Collection
- NOAA Fisheries: Hawaiian Monk Seals
- Hawaiian Language Video Series: He Moʻolelo ʻĪliokai
- Honolulu Magazine: A Parent’s Guide to Humpback Whales in Hawai‘i
- Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy (KVA): Waʻa curriculum
Additional Resources:
Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB)-
Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP)
- Kirby Parnell: underwater acoustic communication of Hawaiian monk seals
- Brijonnay Madrigal: acoustic behavior of odontocetes, geographic variation, and anthropogenic noise
- Martin van Aswegen: bioenergetics of humpback whales migrating between Alaska and Hawaiʻi
- SMMILE: Summer Marine Mammal Intensive Learning Experience
- Apply for the next SMMILE cohort
- Follow SMMILE on Instagram
- Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy (KVA)
- Hutton Junior Fisheries Internship
- He‘eia NERR (National Estuarine Research Reserve)
- Paepae o He’eia
- Kākoʻo ʻŌiwi
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Contact information:
Kanesa Seraphin, Ph.D.
kanesa@hawaii.edu
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