Two for Phoenix.

Let's get going.

Smart Shop, Phoenix, Arizona.

Are you up Phoenix way?

Did you check in Phoenix?

So where are the Phoenix Islands?

I headed north to the Phoenix Islands.

Phoenix Islands is a major tuna location.

Ben Cichy Phoenix is the first Mars Scout mission.

No, I found her outside of Phoenix.

This is Lila Crane from Phoenix.

And the Phoenix Islands is very rich in those seamounts.

And what's the context of the Phoenix Islands?

MOUs, creating the Phoenix Islands Trust Board.

I got a call from a friend in Phoenix.

Let me give you a little peek here of the Phoenix Islands protected area.

In the center we have the Phoenix Islands, which is the subject that I'm talking about.

They'd never had any information from the Phoenix Islands.

This is Mars Pathfinder.

Well, she left Phoenix a week ago yesterday, without a trace.

But back to the Phoenix Islands, which is the subject of this Talk.

And during my time in coma, she had been laid to rest in her hometown of Phoenix.

Phoenix, come here, take this, and go to Jamie, please.

You're 21 years old, and we're on our way to a big city

And I've taught her Phoenix, come here, take this, go to and the name of my son, Jamie.

There was a label in them of the place I got them the Smart Shop, in Phoenix, Arizona.

They aren't down in Dallas they are not in Phoenix (Laughter)

This is Mars Pathfinder. This is Phoenix, we just put two years ago.

Parrotfish spawning this is about 5,000 longnose parrotfish spawning at the entrance to one of the Phoenix Islands.

We just had our first PlPA Trust Board meeting three weeks ago.

There's lots of seamounts in the Phoenix Islands, which are specifically part of the protected area.

Then in 2002, when this was all going full swing, a coral bleaching event happened in the Phoenix Islands.

This picture was just taken by Brian Skerry a few months ago when we returned to the Phoenix Islands and discovered that, because it is a protected area and has healthy fish populations that keep the algae grazed down and keep the rest of the reef healthy, the coral is booming, is just booming back.

It was an ecosystem. Parrotfish spawning this is about 5,000 longnose parrotfish spawning at the entrance to one of the Phoenix Islands.

So David Obura, a coral reef biologist, and I went to Tarawa, and we presented for two hours on the amazing findings of the Phoenix Islands.

The ocean heated up as it does sometimes, and the hot spot formed and stalled right over the Phoenix Islands for six months.

As you saw a little bit earlier, when we were doing the Phoenix one, we have to take into account the heat that we are going to be facing.

If you want to get to the Phoenix Islands, it's five days from Fiji, it's five days from Hawaii, it's five days from Samoa.

I've just described to you the one story behind that rectangular area in the middle, the Phoenix Islands, but every other green patch on that has its own story.

So we have a spacecraft which is heading towards Mars, called Phoenix, and that spacecraft will land 17 days, seven hours and 20 seconds from now, so you can adjust your watch.

Your assignment, when you're learning the gratitude visit, is to write a 300 word testimonial to that person, call them on the phone in Phoenix, ask if you can visit, don't tell them why, show up at their door, you read the testimonial everyone weeps when this happens.

As a first step towards biodiversity recovery on the islands of the PIPA, in mid 2008 rats and rabbits were targeted on McKean and Rawaki.

The Phoenix Islands and all the equatorial parts of our planet are very important for tuna fisheries, especially this yellowfin tuna that you see here.

I've just described to you the one story behind that rectangular area in the middle, the Phoenix Islands, but every other green patch on that has its own story.

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is located in the Republic of Kiribati, an ocean nation in the central Pacific approximately midway between Australia and Hawaii.