Continuing the research led by Dr. Megan Porter (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Dr. Christy Slay (University of Arkansas), and Mike Slay (TNC) and primarily funded through a grant from the Cave Conservancy Foundation, the Subterranean Ecology Institute helped support a two-week effort to continue research on lava tube cave ecosystems on the Island of Hawai’i. The efforts on this trip began with some time spent working through collections at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu before a very successful foray into numerous lava tubes on the Big Island.