The CPIE website was developed to provide information about natural environments on Central Pacific islands and reefs, with an emphasis on water quality and biology of fresh, brackish, and marine waters. The purpose then, some two decades ago, was to provide links to natural history web-sites covering the Pacific region and develop original web-based resources. Now, finding useful websites has shifted from old-school lists of relevant links to web-based search engines that efficiently handle all queries. The CPIE site has been an adjunct to internal library materials at AECOS and a quick connector page to websites regularly visited by AECOS employees. If others have found it useful, then our original purpose has been satisfied.

CPIE has continued, however, as a place where various identification guides are developed, maintained, and expanded—guides in the form of dichotomous and polychotomous keys to various groups of organisms found in the Hawaiian Islands—and, most recently a key for Guam grasses and development of multi-access keys (MAK) to various plant groups. Connecting knowledge of plants and place is the latest CPIE project: a self-guided tour of the Hawai‘i State Park Reserve known as Nā Pōhaku o Hauwahine located along Quarry Road in Kailua, windward O‘ahu. The link below leads to a list of associated webpages, but these are intended to be accessed through QR codes distributed along the park trails.

Links to useful websites (the old school approach):

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