[SEDXC] Fw: Hawaii Scientists to Study Palmyra Atoll - KH5

[Bill Barr]

Looks like permanent inhabitants for KH5 in the future.  Check the 
referenced web site.

Bill N4NX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: <dx-news at njdxa.org>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:43 AM
Subject: [DX-NEWS] Hawaii Scientists to Study Palmyra Atoll


Thu Nov 17,10:17 PM ET

HONOLULU - Dozens of scientists from Hawaii and
the mainland are launching a cooperative research
project at Palmyra Atoll to study the remote area's pristine coral 
ecosystem.

The National Wildlife Refuge 960 miles south of
Honolulu will be used to establish a base line
for understanding environmental change elsewhere in the world.

"The thing that makes Palmyra so sexy to a
researcher is that there are very few human
impacts," said Barry Stieglitz, senior policy
maker with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The atoll is made up of a ring of 54 small,
heavily vegetated islands formed from coral
growth on the rim of an ancient submerged volcano.

The group of researchers ­ which includes the
University of Hawaii, Stanford University,
American Museum of Natural History and the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography ­ plans to
use a new $1.5 million research center built on
the atoll's Cooper Island by The Nature Conservancy.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051118/ap_on_sc/palmyra_study

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