Pau Hana Maui 2011

Levi Lewis, a PhD student in the Smith Lab, talks about his final field excursion of 2011 to Maui to collect data for his research.

SciFund Fuels Smith Lab Research

Levi Lewis, a PhD student in the Smith Lab, talks about his experience participating in the SciFund Challenge – an experiment designed to help scientists raise money by reaching out to the interested public, as well as interacting and informing people about their current research projects.

Put Your Money Where Your Reef Is

Levi Lewis, a Ph.D. student in the Smith Lab, gives us his view on a peer-reviewed study, commissioned by NOAA, that estimates the value of Hawaiian coral reefs.

Finding Inspiration

Levi & Em's Frog in To Kill a Coral Reef

Levi Lewis, a Ph.D. student in the Smith lab, talks about what inspires him to continually fight to protect coral reefs around theworld.

In the News! Lahaina, Hawaii News

Two of our very own PhD students, Levi Lewis and Emily Kelly, celebrate the 2nd annual birthday of the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (KHFMA) and made the front page of the Lahaina News!

Thrilled to be back on the reef!

Our last dive at Kahekili was in October and Levi Lewis (photo on right holding his cool new helmet cam) and I, both PhD students at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, are thrilled to be back on the reef again so soon. What a difference 3.5 months makes! Of course, the swell is more than when we … Read More