2021 ARCS Honolulu Scientist of the Year Mark Hixon will describe How Science Can Help Save Hawai‘i’s Coral Reefs in an online Pau Hana talk at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2. Professor Hixon holds the Sidney and Erika Hsiao Endowed Chair in Marine Biology and in the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa School of Life Sciences. An expert in marine ecology and conservation biology, he has studied coral reefs in many locales around the world and appeared in TED talks and PBS TV’s Saving the Oceans. His research explores what determines the number of fish in the sea, how so many different species coexist and how marine reserves and artificial reefs help conserve sea life and enhance fisheries. After completing graduate work at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Dr. Hixon was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hawai‘i and a professor at Oregon State University for 28 years. In 2013 he was recruited back to UH, where he chairs the Zoology Graduate Program. He was recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information Citation Index as the most cited scientific author on coral-reef ecology in the United States in 2004, and he has chaired NOAA’s Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee and National Science Foundation’s Ocean Sciences Advisory Committee. A Fulbright Senior Scholar, Aldo Leopold Fellow and Fellow of the International Coral Reef Society, he serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.