Lipoa Beach Seaweed Collection and survey

Monday morning at 8:00 I went down to Lipoa st. to readers on my other blog about how bad run-off can get from rain.
After that I went to Lipoa beach to collect some seaweed.
I was honestly not expecting much. Only Ulva and Hypnea. But to my surprise I collected much more!





From about 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. all this seaweed was washed up on Lipoa beach.
I have to say though, that beach area really did not smell so good.
I'm not sure if it was the smell from the run-off after the rain, or if it was the Hypnea washed up on the beach. But it smelled terrible at some parts on the beach...
I heard Hypnea can smell really rank when it washes up on the beaches, so I believe it was that. There was a lot of Hypnea taking over most of the seaweed when I was there.



Some seaweeds I wasn't able to identify.
But I was able to identify the Ulva fasciata and reticulata, Colpomenia sinuosa, Hypnea musicfomis, Sargassum echinocarpum, Sargassum polyphyllum, Acanthophora spicifera, Gracilaria salicornia, Codium edule, Halimeda discoidea, Padina and Dictyota.

Amansia glomerata; Kanaha beach park, Maui

Today a friend and I went to Kanaha beach park to collect some seaweed (marine algae) for a class assignment. We had to collect and identify whatever seaweed we found at our choice of beach.

At Kanaha beach there are many seaweeds, but the one that appeared the most on this stretch of beach was Amansia glomerata. (I call it the hamburger seaweed, because when it grows in clumps it looks like a hamburger patty to me!)
We went to this beach around 3:00 p.m. and as a quick estimate I'd say there was about 30 gallons of Amansia washed up on shore. (that's approximately 250.35 lbs)