Shark Research in Palmyra Atoll
May 1, 2007
Stanford University is one of several members of of the Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium whose institutions are conducting long-range ecological research at Palmyra Atoll, a remote group of islands located about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. Owned and protected by The Nature Conservancy and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Palmyra is one of the few intact coral reef ecosystems in the American tropics. In this video, Stanford Earth Sciences Professor Rob Dunbar, senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, explains the importance of Palmyra to marine scientists, including researchers from Hawaii and California studying the black-tipped reef shark, one of several shark species that flourish in Palmyra's remarkably pristine waters (length - 4:04).
Video Courtesy of: Mark Shwartz/Woods Institute