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Mass bleaching events have become increasingly
common on coral reefs throughout the world (Williams
and Bunkley-Williams 1990; Berkelmans and Oliver 1999) and now, for the first time, have been observed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). During a September 2002 survey expedition to the NWHI, we observed substantial bleaching (greater than 20% of the corals) on reefs at the three northwestern-most atolls of the Hawaiian Archipelago: Kure, Midway, and Pearl and Hermes. There was lesser bleaching on reefs at two adjacent islands: Lisianski and Maro.