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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2015 | WEST HAWAII TODAY
WEATHER
6A
City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W City
Hi/Lo/W
Weather(W): s-
sunny,
pc-
partly cloudy,
c-
cloudy,
sh-
showers,
t-
thunderstorms,
r-
rain,
sf-
snow flurries,
sn-
snow,
i-
ice.
TODAY’SWEATHER KONA TIDES TODAY SUN ANDMOON
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Shown is today’s weather.
Temperatures are today’s
highs and tonight’s lows.
NATIONAL CITIES TODAY
SATELLITE VIEW
First
Time
Height
Second
Time
Height
Hanalei
Kapaa
Waialua Laie
Lanai
Hana
Kapaau
Honokaa
Hilo
Naalehu
Captain Cook
Kailua-Kona
Mountain View
Kihei
Wailuku
Mokapu
Honolulu
Kaunakakai
Ewa Beach
Kalaheo
Kekaha
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and
precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
As of 3 p.m. yesterday.
Moon
Rise
Set
Sun
Rise
Set
Jun 24
Jul 1
Jul 8
Jul 15
First
Full
Last
New
Albany, NY
76/63/t
Albuquerque
96/66/s
Amarillo
88/63/pc
Anchorage
77/59/s
Atlanta
95/76/t
Austin
87/71/t
Baltimore
85/69/t
Billings
84/61/pc
Birmingham
93/74/t
Bismarck
69/57/t
Boise
92/60/s
Boston
71/59/pc
Buffalo
75/59/t
Charleston, SC
96/76/t
Charleston, WV
85/67/pc
Charlotte, NC
99/72/t
Cheyenne
82/57/t
Chicago
80/53/c
Cincinnati
86/66/t
Cleveland
80/61/t
Columbia, SC
100/77/s
Dallas
87/71/t
Denver
88/60/t
Des Moines
81/65/c
Detroit
80/59/t
Duluth
70/46/s
El Paso
102/75/s
Fairbanks
83/57/pc
Fargo
69/56/pc
Grand Rapids
77/53/c
Green Bay
79/49/pc
Honolulu
88/74/pc
Houston
89/74/t
Indianapolis
85/66/t
Jackson, MS
93/73/t
Jacksonville
96/73/t
Juneau
62/49/c
Kansas City
82/66/pc
Key West
89/81/pc
Lansing
78/54/c
Las Vegas
108/77/s
Little Rock
85/74/t
Los Angeles
81/64/pc
Louisville
87/70/c
Madison
80/54/pc
Memphis
90/75/t
Miami
91/78/pc
Milwaukee
78/51/t
Minneapolis
79/60/s
Nashville
89/71/t
New Orleans
90/77/t
New York City
73/63/sh
Norfolk
94/76/t
Oklahoma City
79/66/t
Omaha
81/65/t
Orlando
96/76/t
Philadelphia
78/66/t
Phoenix
115/86/s
Pittsburgh
81/65/t
Portland, ME
71/56/pc
Portland, OR
79/57/pc
Providence
72/58/pc
Raleigh
97/73/t
Reno
92/55/s
Sacramento
90/56/s
St. Louis
82/69/t
Salt Lake City
97/69/s
San Antonio
86/75/t
San Diego
77/64/pc
San Francisco
66/53/pc
San Juan, PR
89/79/s
Santa Fe
92/57/s
Seattle
74/55/pc
Spokane
82/55/pc
Syracuse
79/59/t
Tampa
91/78/t
Tucson
109/77/s
Tulsa
76/70/r
Washington, DC
90/75/t
Wichita
84/66/pc
Wichita Falls
88/67/c
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc.
©2015
High
4:26 a.m.
1.0’
Low
10:22 a.m.
-0.2’
High
5:34 p.m.
2.2’
Low
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84/73
84/73
84/71
86/74
83/69
87/74
85/73
84/68
83/70
83/72
86/76
82/69
87/72
87/70
85/74
88/74
84/71
87/71
82/72
83/73
83/74
Today
5:46 a.m.
7:05 p.m.
Friday
5:46 a.m.
7:05 p.m.
Today
7:51 a.m.
9:04 p.m.
Friday
8:44 a.m.
9:48 p.m.
NATIONAL SUMMARY:
As hot, humid air with blazing sunshine hold in the Southeast
today, a swath of drenching downpours and thunderstorms will extend from the south-
ern Plains to the Great Lakes and interior Northeast. The rainfall in part of the Central
states is associated with Bill. Storms will affect Montana, while the balance of the West
is sunny.
Hoary bats arrived in islands in two waves
It wasn’t just the human
population of Hawaii that
arrived in different waves.
A study published
Wednesday found that
the opeapea, or Hawaiian
hoary bat, also made its
way here in at least two
separate migrations.
Using genetic sequenc-
ing, researchers deter-
mined the migrations
were separated by near-
ly 9,000 years, with the
most recent wave hap-
pening about 800 years
ago.
“The fact that there
were two different disper-
sals was astonishing,” said
Dr. Amy Russell, an asso-
ciate professor at Grand
Valley State University
in Michigan and lead
author of “Two Tickets
to Paradise: Multiple
Dispersal Events in the
Founding of Hoary Bat
Populations in Hawaii.”
Russell and other
researchers on the main-
land looked at mitochon-
drial data to establish
the “clear signal” of two
genetic populations in the
Hawaiian hoary bat. Field
work was carried out by
researchers at the Hawaii
Cooperative
Studies
Unit at the University of
Hawaii at Hilo and the
U.S. Geological Survey.
The opeapea is the only
land mammal endemic to
the islands. Like so many
other Hawaii species, it
became genetically dis-
tinct from its mainland
relative — in this case, the
North American hoary
bat — after millennia
of adapting to its island
environment.
“They’re
purely
Hawaiian,” USGS wildlife
biologist and study co-au-
thor Frank Bonaccorso
said. “They have sequenc-
es of DNA that are found
in no hoary bats in con-
tinental North America.”
Bonaccorso’s previous
research established that
the tiny bat, which weighs
no more than 18 grams,
was nevertheless capable
of making the overwater
flight from the Pacific
Coast. On the mainland,
the North American
hoary bat makes annual
north-south migrations,
relying on reserves of fat
to sustain it on the trip.
If the bats were prop-
erly hydrated before
embarking on an oce-
anic flight, “They could
do it quite easily in two
and a half to three days,”
Bonaccorso said. “There
are many small birds that
do it all over the world;
there’s no physical reason
why bats that can store
fats couldn’t do this.”
The first colonization
took place about 10,000
years ago, according to
the molecular analysis.
Bats in that genetic group
have a different fur color
and are smaller than the
North American hoary
bat, Bonaccorso said.
“That lineage has diver-
sified through natural
selection and genetic
drift,” he said.
Bats descended from
the second migration
group 800 years ago show
more genetic affiliation to
the mainland bat.
Genetic studies are
becoming a key resource
for scientists studying the
opeapea because the ani-
mal is elusive in its natural
habitat. The bat is on the
Endangered Species List,
but nobody knows for sure
how many there are.
“They’re difficult spe-
cies to study in the wild,”
said Corinna Pinzari, a
graduate student with
the HCSU. “There’s a
lot of work to be done
understanding their biol-
ogy and their ecology —
I don’t think we’re going
to have another group of
bats flying over anytime
soon.”
Pinzari is continuing
the studies by looking at
possible island-to-island
migration and whether
each island has genetical-
ly unique bat populations.
Most research on exist-
ing populations has been
done on the Big Island,
but there are also opeapea
specimens from Kauai,
Oahu, and Maui includ-
ed in the “Two Tickets to
Paradise” work.
“Maui is a really inter-
esting place, genetical-
ly,” Russell said. “Both of
those [migration] lineag-
es were present on Maui
to a great extent, and I
think that might be a
key area to look at in the
future.”
A complete genomic
study is also in the works,
to see if more differences
between the ancient-de-
scended and modern-de-
scended bats can be
found.
The discovery also
holds implication for con-
servation efforts, since
the current conservation
plan doesn’t account for
two different evolutionary
pools.
“It opens up questions
for wildlife management,”
Bonaccorso said. “What’s
the importance of con-
serving both lineages?”
E-mail Ivy Ashe at iashe@
hawaiitribune-herald.com.
BY IVYASHE
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
The Hawaiian hoary bat is the only land mammal
endemic to the islands, and arrived in two
different migrations.
COURTESY FRANK BONACCORSO.
Exhumation begins for unidentified remains from USS Oklahoma
HONOLULU
—
Officials this month have
started to exhume the
unidentified
remains
of USS Oklahoma crew
members killed in the
1941 Japanese bombing of
Pearl Harbor as part of
an effort to account for
sailors and Marines still
classified as missing.
Four caskets were
dug up last week and
six this week, said Gene
Maestas, a spokesman for
the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific.
The Defense POW/
MIA Accounting Agency
announced the exhu-
mations in April, saying
advances in forensic sci-
ence and genealogical
help from families have
made it possible to identi-
fy remains nearly 75 years
after the attack.
Officials expect to disin-
ter 61 caskets at 45 grave
sites at the Honolulu cem-
etery commonly referred
to as Punchbowl, Maestas
said Tuesday. These graves
contain the remains of up
to 388 Oklahoma sail-
ors and Marines because
many of the coffins
include multiple people.
Altogether, 429 on
board the World War II
battleship were killed.
Only 35 were identified
in the years immediately
after.
The cemetery and
the Defense POW/MIA
Accounting
Agency
BYAUDREY MCAVOY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
declined to allow media to
cover the disinterments.
Maestas said an honors
detail drapes each casket
with an American flag
once it is raised out of
the ground. He said it’s
done in a solemn, digni-
fied manner.
“It really is an honor
and a privilege for us to
be involved in this pro-
cess, providing closure
for the family members
that have waited close to
three-quarters of a centu-
ry to have the remains of
their loved ones returned
to them,” Maestas said.
Maj.
Natasha
Waggoner, a spokeswom-
an for the Defense POW/
MIA Accounting Agency,
said the identification
work will be conducted
at agency laboratories in
Hawaii and Nebraska.
They will also be done at
the Armed Forces DNA
Identification Laboratory
at Dover Air Force Base in
Delaware.
The agency expects to
identify about 80 percent
of Oklahoma crew mem-
bers now considered miss-
ing. It expects the work
will take about five years.
