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Veronica Gibson, MS

Marine Botany, Ecology, Coral Reef Conservation

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PhD Candidate | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Botany Department

Marine Botany, Ecology and Conservation

My research interests span the fields of ecology, hydrogeology, botany, and conservation.

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Friends who do a 7 hour hike with you, in slippers, ending in the dark after the slippers break, feeling your way through Palolo river... And still go out for ramen after! They're keepers! 🌈🍜🍻 #bigislandgirls #teamawesome #slippahhiker #thisisreallyliving #motivationalyelling #sorefeet #donttrythisathomekids

Tricleocarpa fragilis from Haleʻiwa reef flats. #rhodophyta #tricleocarpa #redalgae #limu #phycology #marinebiology

Joined the 100ft deep club this past weekend! This is only the beginning 💦💙. Through all our training I can't stop laughing and appreciating the people I grew up with when I realize all the pool games Uncle Lambert used to teach us in @maialandxx 's pool were really freedive training. Keiki breath hold comps and underwater breast stroke laps. Love you Leeloys! Mahalo nui in large part to coach @chambersbelow for putting on the class and dive partner in crime 🚓@elizabethsides. First and last photos by Kurt second one by Morri.

Wrangelia elegantissima from my dive in Haliewa yesterday 🏖️🌈🏊. A Hawaiian endemic first described from Makapu'u beach, Wrangelia is currently recorded only in the main and northwest Hawaiian Islands (no where else in the world) . 🌊 W. elegantissima is a red alga in the order #ceramiales. In other news I dove to the bottom of the Haliewa trench, 85ft, and was happy to find no invasive Avrainvillea almadelpha but instead all coral cover! #hawaiianendemic #rhodophyta #wrangelia #marineplants #algae

Had the best time mentoring these amazing young ladies at #oceangirlproject this past week! 💦👭🤸🏽🌊🌊🌈 So greatful to have worked with @808surfergirl and all of the strong and amazing women who volunteered to make this camp happen! We surfed, we yoga-d, we dove, we pressed algae, we played hard and we conquered! We conquered Tongs, fears, waves, wind, and judgement. We grew love, confidence, and amazing young surfer women. So so so proud of all the ladies at camp for making the experience great for everyone! There is absolutely nothing like hanging out with kids and powerful role models to get your priorities in order. More surf, more love, less worries. Love all of these ladies. 👭👭👭👭🌈🌈🌈🌈🌊🌊🌊💦💦💦💞💞💞💋💋💋💋💖 #girlpower #girlswhosurf #girlswhoscience #surfcamp #luckywelivehawaii

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Summer Fieldwork 2018 Has Begun!

Our summer fieldwork season has begun! It’s going to be a very productive and exciting summer filled with new connections, exciting new data, and much more! I’m really excited to have a great and diverse team of undergraduates joining us in the field this summer! First, I am excited to have an incoming freshman undergraduate […]

Graduation Season

There are subtleties of PhD student life that you really aren’t warned about, can’t be warned about, until you experience it. The slower passage of the typical PhD education makes you a more permanent figure in the college than the typical bachelors or master’s degree student. You marinate longer in your research questions and may […]

Phycological Society of America Conference

If you’re thinking that looks like a Hawaii girl who found herself a long way from home at her first scientific conference in Monterey, California, then you’re right. What a long strange trip it has been, but I did it! I attended my first scientific conference on my own, got a travel award, and presented […]

Community Workday at Huilua Fishpond in Kahana

This past weekend I volunteered with Friends of Kahana at the Huilua Fishpond, one of my field sites. An interesting connection between my field sites, those with submarine groundwater discharge, and ancient Hawaiian fishpond sites. Many sites with submarine groundwater springs are also sites that were chosen by ancestral Hawaiians as sites for loko iʻa, […]

More South Shore Field Work

Another beautiful day of field work on the south shore of Oʻahu. Currently, I am doing percent cover analyses of various sites with Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) influence across Oʻahu. Each of these seeps has different characteristics, including pH, salinity, temperature, natural nutrient concentrations, and amount of pollution from anthropogenic nutrient loading (septic tanks, leaking […]

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