Collaboration and partnership are at the core of what Sea-Bird Scientific does. The company is—Enabling the science that matters—working with scientists and researchers across the globe to provide instrumentation that produces defensible and accurate data for use in climate change research, environmental monitoring, and more.

Sea-Bird Scientific collaborated with Dr. Andrea Kealoha and her team at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Department of Oceanography to deploy a rapid water quality monitoring set-up in response to the devastating wildfire in Lahaina in August of 2023.

This study was featured on the latest episode of Season 16 of PBS‘s, Changing Seas, a TV series that explores what’s going on with our oceans through the eyes of researchers and scientists. In this episode, Maui Aloha ‘Āina: Mauka to Makai, Sea-Bird Scientifc’s collaboration with Dr. Andrea Kealoha and her team is featured to depict the story of community resilience amidst loss from the wildfire. The episode will air live from 8:00 – 8:30 pm ET on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. To watch it now, visit: https://www.changingseas.tv/

For this research, the company partnered with the UH team to develop a comprehensive case study that outlines the deployment and monitoring set-up, as well as findings. To read the case study, visit: https://blog.seabird.com/understanding-the-implications-of-the-lahaina-wildfire-on-coastal-water-quality/