Can you give us the Natl. Geographic website when you can?

Yes Betsy! I don't have that available at the moment but I will make sure that gets out to everyone.

https://onepeopleonereefstorytellingproject.org/

Ah! Michelle beat me to it. Thank you Michelle!

Our name was given by the people of Ulithi, Hofagie Laamle means 'unite this atoll', a recognition of the importance of collaboration & community working together

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Thanks JR! It's a been a great honor to partner with OPOR and the Ulithi Community!

Thanks Tommy

Awesome JR!!

Yes JR, thank you so much for providing all that amazing history and background.

Thanks JR, for the great history and emphasis on respect.

Thanks Loy!!

Magul is another name we use for John Rulmal Jr. =)

Thank you Travis..:)

Kaselehlie from Pohnpei!

Hi Canita!!!

Hi May!!

Canita!!!Welcome

Great to see familiar faces. Hi Jun!

Hi Canita! I need to get in touch with you, about some cool ideas the youth have come up with for educational materials. You definitely will have great insight :)

Yeah John!

Go John!!

Thank you!!!

Thank you so much to these wonderful companies. Drone deploy as well!!

Reminder to post any questions you may have for our team here in chat! We want to hear from you! =)

so glad to help in a very small way John! Thanks for all you do:-)

I will let you steer anytime John

Yeah John!!!

Fantastic use of your water quality and UAV skills for community-based monitoring, John!

Well done, John!

Yes, it's an amazing collaboration of science and community!

Thanks tons it takes a village!

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Yay May and U-YAP!

May’s a superstar… can confirm!

Yeah May!!!

Fuller has been integral to the development of the marine debris program!!

Nice work Fuller!

Hello OPOR community, so great to see everyone!!!

Hello Fuller! So good to see you!

Hi Fuller!!

Awesomeness!

I had zero doubt they were gonna kill it on Woleai.

Thanks for sharing that story May!

Yeah Milo!!

Yeah Milo!!!

Thanks for beaming in all the way from Guam!

One of the most powerful moments of all, the Wooleai community has become incredibly engaged - so grateful to the May and the Ulithi Youth - especially Milo for inspiring communities!

Yo Milo!! Brenton Peck here! Alumni from the Youth Program 2017

Milo John Lloyd says hello!

What a nice hat

Great job Milo. Very inspiring!

Thank you Milo!

Hi Nick!

Let’s go, Nick! You’ve come a long way, brother!

Great work Milo!

Nickson! What a great way to face your fear and share your story with us all

Atta boy Nickson!

YES Nick! So proud of you!

Nickson you are amazing

thank you all

Same goes for you, Clan… proud of you, lil bro!

Love and miss you Clancy! -Brenton

Wow, what amazing spokespeople!!

Hi Clancy!! you guys rock!

Great presentations!

We love hearing from the Youth! Thank you all so much for sharing

Thanks Jamie!

Thank you Clancy! So well spoken!

Great job Clancy!

Yes!! All of these presentations are amazing. You all are incredible

These youth are the wind in our sails, carrying us forward. We are so humbled by them!

Nickson, Clancy and Milo - such wonderful spokesman for OPOR! Miss you all!

Hi Emily!!

Science for people is the way forward. Thanks, Aaron!

Love the youth's talks. Great job, everyone.

thanks to you all

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what an incredible crew!!

Hi Nicole!! What a powerful community that’s been built since 2016! I’m so inspired by the work you’ve all been doing!

Such an amazing set of presentations and comments! Thank you so much!

As Michelle said. First we listen...

Congratulations youth on your passion for OPOR!

Amazing! This model would be extremely useful for the Indigenous communities of the Broughton Archipelago in British Columbia, Canada, with whom I work. This group of youth is so inspiring, and I think youth everywhere would benefit!

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For those interested in hearing more about the youth program, you can read more here https://bluecology.org/expeditions/micronesia-youth-program/

@Tom Okey, that is so great to hear. Please stick around after the presentations if you’d like to talk further, or feel free to email onepeopleonereef@gmail.com

Thanks Fio!!

Here is a link to the Youth Action Project https://onepeopleonereef.org/one-people-one-reef-youth-action-project/

Onepeoplonereef.org

Hi Eric

Has oil residue in the water at Ulithi and the Outer Islands been detected in recent years?

Thanks for the question Mike! I will save your question and pass that along as we are almost at the Q/A period.

We have not detected it shallow. A few years ago the one Navy ship that was sunk in the atoll in WW2 did start to leak but it was quickly patched

As a student at Cabrillo, how can I get involved at the school?

USS Mississinewa was salvaged in early 2003 but internal fuel bunkers were not accessible. Has oil residue been a problem in areas such as Chuuk?

What does the ocean debris aspect look like on Ulithi and the outer islands? Do the islands experience major problems with ocean debris or is it pretty minimal?

@ Tobias! Great question! I’ll let Nicole answer in the Q and A - she’s a prof at Cabrillo!

Brooke, marine debris is a BIG problem. Amazingly, even though these islands are so remote, marine debris washes up from very far away..

I am struck, as I always am when interacting with OPOR, by how positive its participants are—how dedicated and how supportive. This optimism is infectious. It has personally carried me through more than one exhausting day of lectures, fieldwork, and storytelling. Thank you Junior, Birgit, Nicole, Giacomo, and Co. for your tireless efforts. I can’t wait to join you all again! Sa hachigchig!

Is it possible to have the oil removed from the sunken ships to avoid future patching and leakage concerns?

Great Presentation Everyone. Thank You.

I recall US military coming down to salvage fuel off the sunken vessel

Thank you all so much for participating everyone!

Thank you for this fantastic update and set of presentations! Really great to hear about

Thank you Diana!!

yes oil continues to leak in the WWII wrecks in Chuuk

Thank you to OPOR! This has been a fantastic presentation and update on your work! Thank you!

What other communities will you be expanding this approach to? Can you also expand it to other ecosystems (like seagrass or rocky reefs in the north pacific) ?

Your community based approach and success combining culture and science to revive traditional conservation practice is amazing and inspiring. Do you share this model and provide zoom presentations with other research universities?

Thank you for being here Vid, so glad to have someone from Chuuk!

Thank you all for such a great and informative presentation!

Thanks Neek!! In awe of OPOR team's amazing work!

Can UCSC students also get involved?

Hi Madelyn! Yes! We’ve had UCSC students join too!

Thanks May :)

does the youth program collaborate with Outer Islands High School?

Are the internships something we could get involved with during covid? Are there any opportunities to analyze data at this time?

Madelyn, contact us and we’ll keep you in the loop about getting involved

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Or if not analyzing data, are there other internship opportunities? :)

Yes of course.. our local youth are from OIHS and we are in the process of developing and piloting adding into the OIHS curriculum some of this real case studies.

Yes CC! You can definitely help with data, let's get started!

YAY!

Thank you all for hosting! Much love to the OPOR team and community

Thank you JR! how many students are currently at OIHS?

Thanks Caden! See you at youth Zoom this week?! ;)

Yes I will be there this week!

Well done OPOR! love your work!!

Thank you all very much.

Thanks for all the updates - good to see everyone!

Thank you for your wonderful presentations

Thank YOU all! This meeting was so inspiring and exciting. Love all the positivity from the people involved in the organization

Thank YOU Emma! So much of this work was possible because of you!

Thank you all so much for being here.

Thanks OPOR from Yap DOE

thank you for all of the information, enthusiasm, and the model of the approach

Thank you for being here Larry!

Thank you Nicole for your amazing work along with your whole OPOR team!

Sa hachigchig/Kilisou chapur/Thanks everyone!

Thanks for sharing your great work!

Wonderful presentations! Congratulations on your successful ongoing work. Thank you and much respect for the resilient people of Ulithi Atoll for being great stewards of the ocean and for sharing your knowledge and stories.

Super interesting work! Thanks so much for a great presentation.

Mahalo nui friends. Is it tuba time?

Good night everyone! Fantastic program with an even more fantastic group of people. Best to all of my old friends in the islands. So good to see you all again. Be well and keep up the excellent work. Cheers, Andy (the sleeper)

thanks to all for a fascinating and inspiring presentation,

Thank you everyone!

We are so deeply honored to have had the chance to journey with you all this evening, thank you!

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Thanks Robin! Hopefully we will be back soon…

Thank you everyone for all your work and sharing it with us. Truly inspiring.

Thanks Andy! Good night ;)

Thanks Andy, can’t wait to go back to the outer island with you!

Thank you guys! Honored to participate. saabong! (that’s “goodnight”, right?)

Good to see so many familiar faces! Good night!

Thank you all. This is truly an important project and it will undoubtedly spawn solutions/methods for other projects in other areas.

Thank you for sharing, great presentations!!!

Return trip is on my bucket list.

Good night everyone thanks for coming. It was great to share with you all tonight.

Yes Andy, we need you!

Thank you all so much!! I hope to work with you all one day! Goodnight!:)

thank you, everyone!

Thank you for such a great presentation! Take care!

Thank you all! Good seeing so many of you again :)