Making ʻaha (using coconut husk fibers to create a cord) to tag and identify corals is the focus of a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa undergraduate student's project to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into marine science and help keep plastic out of the ocean. Jasmine Chang Jasmine Chang, a third-year student studying marine biology and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology ( HIMB ) in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology , also works as a lab technician in the Coral Resilience Lab .

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/09/25/making-aha-tag-identify-corals/

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