Introduction

Regional Monitoring of Benthic Fauna in Mamala Bay, O’ahu, Hawai’i, August 2001

Regional Monitoring of Benthic Fauna in Mamala Bay, O’ahu, Hawai’i, August 2001

Project Report PR-2002-07
Regional Monitoring of Benthic Fauna in Mamala Bay, O’ahu, Hawai’i, August 2001

Swartz, Richard C., Julie H. Bailey – Brock, William J. Cooke, and E. Alison Kay

March 2002, 158 pp.

ABSTRACT

Sediment samples are collected for biological and geochemical analyses to determine whether treated sewage effluent discharged through two ocean outfalls has an effect on the benthic fauna in Mamala Bay. The extent and magnitude of spatial changes in the structure of the benthic community in the bay are described.