A recent audit of Hawai‘i’s Source Water Assessment Program (SWAP) drinking water source susceptibility analysis shows that the state’s current approach may not be accurately predicting groundwater contamination at local drinking water sources. The research was performed by Alan Mair, a former postdoctoral fellow at UH Mānoa’s Department of Geology & Geophysics and Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), and Aly …
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At an annual hurricane outlook news conference held by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center, the Sea Grant College Program (UH Sea Grant) at UH Mānoa was awarded the 2013 Dr. Arthur Chiu Award for Excellence in Hurricane Preparedness. The award is given annually to an organization, individual or business that has demonstrated innovation or excellence …
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Researchers from the UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands, including two species currently under consideration as threatened or endangered. They found the order of coral abundance (from highest to lowest) around the main Hawaiian Islands to be Porites lobata, …
Read More »The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Honors Program, in conjunction with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), is proud to celebrate the 55 members of the Class of ‘13 who graduated with Honors last weekend. The number of undergraduates participating in the Honors Program has steadily increased in recent years, up from 188 students in 2010 to nearly 800 students …
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UH Mānoa Assistant Professor of Physics Jelena Maricic has received a prestigious Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to search for a new type of elementary particle. This is the first such DOE award for a UH Mānoa faculty member. The DOE award provides $750,000 in funding over five years that will enable …
Read More »The Field Robotics Laboratory at UH Manoa’s College of Engineering has designed and built an autonomous catamaran robot for port inspection following a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Read More »The University of Hawaiʻi Museum Consortium has completed the digitization of a unique natural science specimen collection from UH Mānoa’s Anthropology Department’s Archaeology laboratory. “The collection is fairly comprehensive for much of the archeological shell midden material commonly found in the Hawaiian landscape,” said Dr. Michael Thomas of the UH Museum Consortium. Beachcombers and citizen scientists will also find the …
Read More »Could a dramatic increase in atmospheric CO2 fuel tremendous increases in agricultural productivity and fight hunger? The general consensus among scientists holds that global warming and higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will hurt poor nations the most. Hotter temperatures, rising seas, and more extreme weather patterns will impact countries in the tropical and sub-tropical regions where poverty is …
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UH Mānoa scientist helped uncover the evolutionary history behind common turtle’s novel traits Scientists have recently decoded the genome of the Western Painted Turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii, one of the most widespread, abundant and well-studied turtles in North America. This freshwater turtle is only the second reptile species for which complete genome sequences have been assembled and analyzed, behind the …
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Warming oceans and other environmental disturbances are highlighting key differences in the resistance of coral species to stress Is biodiversity always a good survival tool? The answer may be a qualified “no.” Ruth Gates, a marine biologist at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, has spent a quarter of a century studying corals and coral reefs. Gates focuses on the …
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