Marine Sponges from Hawaii: Big Island

My name is Jaaziel E. Garcia Hernandez, This website is part of my marine science undergraduate senior thesis project that I am working on at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. I will be surveying, collecting, describing and cataloging any marine sponge I find along the East Coast of the Big Island. The ultimate goal of this project is to identify the local marine sponges and to isolate any novel secondary metabolites that may be found in microbes and fungi that live within marine sponges.