Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
Water Quality Testing — our Clean Ocean Team
Our Hui O Ka Wai Ola Water Quality Testing Program currently tests water on a regular basis at 31 sites in South and West Maui. We are currently in need of volunteers to help with this program.
Volunteers participate in a training program to learn the careful procedures and protocols that we follow to ensure quality data collection. After completing training, volunteers work in teams of about 3 people each. You’ll travel to designated shoreline locations in South Maui to gather ocean water samples (at around knee depth), conduct in-field water testing and prepare samples for storage and transportation to a lab. Our field water testing generally takes place on weekday mornings.
To volunteer in the field or in the lab, you must actively have health insurance.
Learn More Volunteer with MNMRC
Assist at Events
Enjoy meeting and talking with people? Please volunteer to help staff our information tables at community events.
Like to work behind the scenes? We can use help a range of tasks from creating social media posts, to data management, to graphic design. Have a special skill you think could help contribute to our mission? Reach out and let us know!Volunteer with MNMRC
Photograph & Videography
To tell our story, we need photos! If you are a photographer, please volunteer to document projects, programs, meetings, and events. We are also seeking assistance from videographers who have the needed Akaku Community TV qualifications to film our monthly meetings for broadcast.Volunteer with MNMRC
Blogging
Love to write? We’d love your help with creating blogs for our website. We’ll provide the topics and editing assistance. Volunteer with MNMRC
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
About the organizer
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council’s (MNMRC) mission is to ensure healthy coral reefs, clean ocean water, and abundant native fish for Maui Nui (Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi).
We believe that Maui Nui’s reefs are a vital part of our island community. We depend on them to provide food, support thousands of jobs, and protect our shorelines from storm surge and erosion. Unfortunately, 25% of Maui’s surveyed reef sites are dead and 50% of surveyed reef sites are declining in health. Maui also has the 2nd lowest fish abundance in the Hawaiian Islands with some native fish stocks having declined by 90%.
In addition, Maui has Hawaiʻi’s most polluted coastal waters. From 2012-2014, 90% of the water samples collected in Maui coastal waters failed to meet State standards and many sites face chronic brown water events.
Through the power of community involvement, partnerships, and public education, we aim to solve these and other problems that undermine the quality of our nearshore ocean waters and coral reefs. After all, many of the threats impacting Maui Nui’s reefs and nearshore ocean water begin on land, right here on our islands.
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit and hold a Gold Transparency certification from Candid/Guidestar.
Good For
Teens, Families, Kupuna, Students, Groups, Visitors, Bilingual Speakers, Resume Builder
Activity Type
Indoor, Outdoor, Beach & Ocean, Help Animals, Help People, Help Plants & Nature, Cleanup, Skilled Labor, Admin & Clerical, Supervise & Coordinate, Advocacy & Outreach, Technology, Media & Communications, Educational Activity
Cause
Environmental Conservation, Cultural Preservation, Community Engagement
Requirements
RSVP Required
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
Water Quality Testing — our Clean Ocean Team
Our Hui O Ka Wai Ola Water Quality Testing Program currently tests water on a regular basis at 31 sites in South and West Maui. We are currently in need of volunteers to help with this program.
Volunteers participate in a training program to learn the careful procedures and protocols that we follow to ensure quality data collection. After completing training, volunteers work in teams of about 3 people each. You’ll travel to designated shoreline locations in South Maui to gather ocean water samples (at around knee depth), conduct in-field water testing and prepare samples for storage and transportation to a lab. Our field water testing generally takes place on weekday mornings.
To volunteer in the field or in the lab, you must actively have health insurance.
Learn More Volunteer with MNMRC
Assist at Events
Enjoy meeting and talking with people? Please volunteer to help staff our information tables at community events.
Like to work behind the scenes? We can use help a range of tasks from creating social media posts, to data management, to graphic design. Have a special skill you think could help contribute to our mission? Reach out and let us know!Volunteer with MNMRC
Photograph & Videography
To tell our story, we need photos! If you are a photographer, please volunteer to document projects, programs, meetings, and events. We are also seeking assistance from videographers who have the needed Akaku Community TV qualifications to film our monthly meetings for broadcast.Volunteer with MNMRC
Blogging
Love to write? We’d love your help with creating blogs for our website. We’ll provide the topics and editing assistance. Volunteer with MNMRC
Good For
Teens, Families, Kupuna, Students, Groups, Visitors, Bilingual Speakers, Resume Builder
Activity Type
Indoor, Outdoor, Beach & Ocean, Help Animals, Help People, Help Plants & Nature, Cleanup, Skilled Labor, Admin & Clerical, Supervise & Coordinate, Advocacy & Outreach, Technology, Media & Communications, Educational Activity
Cause
Environmental Conservation, Cultural Preservation, Community Engagement
Requirements
RSVP Required
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council
About the organizer
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council’s (MNMRC) mission is to ensure healthy coral reefs, clean ocean water, and abundant native fish for Maui Nui (Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi).
We believe that Maui Nui’s reefs are a vital part of our island community. We depend on them to provide food, support thousands of jobs, and protect our shorelines from storm surge and erosion. Unfortunately, 25% of Maui’s surveyed reef sites are dead and 50% of surveyed reef sites are declining in health. Maui also has the 2nd lowest fish abundance in the Hawaiian Islands with some native fish stocks having declined by 90%.
In addition, Maui has Hawaiʻi’s most polluted coastal waters. From 2012-2014, 90% of the water samples collected in Maui coastal waters failed to meet State standards and many sites face chronic brown water events.
Through the power of community involvement, partnerships, and public education, we aim to solve these and other problems that undermine the quality of our nearshore ocean waters and coral reefs. After all, many of the threats impacting Maui Nui’s reefs and nearshore ocean water begin on land, right here on our islands.
Maui Nui Marine Resource Council is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit and hold a Gold Transparency certification from Candid/Guidestar.