This document provides images and descriptions of various locations in Hawaii including active volcanoes like Kilauea, lava fields, coastal areas with lava entering the ocean, tropical rainforests and beaches with black sand. It also features astronomical observatories on Mauna Kea like the Gemini Telescope and Keck Telescopes used to study the universe.

1. From Rocks to Rainforest

2. Somewhere in the Middle of
Nowhere

3. Kilauea Iki Lava Fountain, Nov. 1959 – 1,900 ft high!

4. Kooluawe Island, SW of Maui

5. Somehow life happens

6. Come back later and …

7. What Gives ?

8. STS-26 Shuttle view of Hawaii

12. Trecking across Lava Fields

13. Cracks in fresh pahoehoe lava

14. Surface of recent lava lava flow

15. Clinker on surface of lava flow

16. Road Kill

18. Ropey pahoehoe lava flow

19. Hike towards active lava flows

21. Plume downwind from ocean entry

22. Steam and HCl plume from ocean entry

24. Kilauea Iki eruption, November 1959

25. Active lava flow at coast

26. Temperature measurements over active
lava tube mid-way between the active
Pu’u O’o vent and the ocean entry.

27. Sulfur Dioxide Venting

29. Measuring temperatures with spectrometer, Pu’u O’o February 1992

30. Pahoehoe lava flows

31. Glass on surface of pahoehoe lava flow

35. Skylight in active Pu’u O’o lava tube

36. Asian Dust from Gobi Desert

38. First Signs of Life

53. Guided Tours

54. Two Pollination Methods

60. Stress Roots

62. Soil Samples

64. Happy Face Spider

68. Paradise Isle

73. At the Beach

74. Black Sand

79. Chemical Assessments

80. Kumana Lava tube

85. Mauna Kea Observatory

87. Gemini Telescope

88. Subaru 8.2m Telescope

92. Keck Telescopes

94. Keck - Adaptive Optics

96. Mirror Support Structure

97. NASA 3-m IR Telescope

100. Dr Alan Tokunaga

101. Submillimeter Telescopes

102. Very Long Baseline Array

103. Mauna Kea Shadow

104. Mauna Kea Summit – 13768ft

110. Mauna Loa Observatory

111. Brewer Instrument

115. Green LIDAR & Dr Barnes

116. Dr. John Barnes, Director

117. COOL Scenes

121. South Point

138. Green Flash

143. Pearl Harbor