The Maui Nui Marine Resource Council will host the December edition of its “Know Your Ocean Speaker Series” featuring Caesar Hjertén of Aqualink and Liz Yannell of Hui O Ka Wai Ola at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 4 via Zoom.

Earlier this year, the two organizations collaborated to incorporate water quality data from local beaches into Aqualink’s global platform. In this webinar, Hjertén and Yannell will share more about the heat stress, wind and wave information available to the public as well as additional data on salinity, pH, turbidity and nitrate levels at locations across Maui.

“Aqualink was born to help monitor our ocean’s major challenge with increasing heat stress,” Hjertén said in a statement. “In my presentation, I’ll discuss how elevated temperatures are affecting our reefs, along with the critical data and tools we’ve helped make accessible to empower communities to address these issues.”

Being able to offer Hui data alongside Aqualink’s metrics is exciting for the community, according to Yannell.

“Not only can we see what is going on in reefs around the world and what is trending globally, but we can also compare that to conditions at our local beaches,” Yannell said. “What makes this collaboration even more special is the fact that Hui data is only available for Maui locations in the Aqualink system, giving us an even more robust idea of how our reefs are doing.”

Registration for the talk is free at bit.ly/KYOALHUI24.