Our lab research has been highlighted in >200 news articles, radio and TV interviews worldwide, reaching >2 million people in 143 countries via our website and social media. Our work is included in policy documents across three continents.
“Clean Water, More Fish, Healthy Reef” — Voice of the Sea Documentary
Featured on Hawaiʻi Sea Grant’s Voice of the Sea (Season 13, Episode 2). The episode explores our work in Kāneʻohe Bay studying fish responses to muddy water, and how ʻāina stewards are restoring streams and wetlands to bring abundance back to nearshore reefs.
In the News: Hawaiʻi’s Corals and the Mud Floods (Civil Beat, March 2026)
PI Johansen was quoted in Civil Beat’s reporting on the catastrophic Kona low storms: “What about the fisheries? What about subsistence food security? … I don’t think that anyone has any numbers on that, and they could be very tall as well.” Johansen recommended the state monitor damaged reefs over the next year.
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STEM Education: RECOVER Virtual Lab
An online tool for elementary school through university students to experience being a real scientist — learning how to conduct experiments, make critical decisions and interpret results. Includes a teacher step-by-step workbook.
Media Coverage
Featured in Nature Climate Change
Our research on how coral reef fishes respond to warming by relocating rather than adapting was published in Nature Climate Change.
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Lab Research on Video
Video documentation of our lab’s research on fish physiology, swimming performance, and environmental stress experiments.
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Fish Biodiversity & Nature Communications
Our work on coral reef fish biodiversity under extreme conditions, published in Nature Communications, and the companion video explaining the findings.
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Radio Interviews
Listen to PI Johansen discuss reef fish resilience, environmental stress, and conservation on radio programs worldwide.
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Voice of the Sea Documentary
“Clean Water, More Fish, Healthy Reef” — a full PBS documentary episode on our research in Kāneʻohe Bay.
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