Historical Records May Underestimate Global Sea Level Rise
New research published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that the longest and highest-quality records of historical ocean water levels may underestimate the amount of global average sea level rise...
View ArticleKaua‘i’s Deep Coral Reefs Harbor Unique Species, High Coral Cover
A team of 16 researchers has completed a comprehensive investigation of deep coral-reef environments — known as mesophotic coral ecosystems — throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago. A major focus of the...
View Article375 National Academy of Sciences Members: Don’t Abandon Paris Climate Agreement
Hundreds of scientists — including noted physicist Stephen Hawking and biologist E.O. Wilson, and 30 Nobel Prize winners — are asking the United States to stick to the Paris Climate Agreement reached...
View ArticleSunscreen Found Harmful to Coral Sampled on Kaua‘i
By Ruby Pap The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is asking all ocean users in Hawai‘i to avoid sunscreen containing oxybenzone, also known as BP-3, due to scientific research showing the...
View ArticleResearchers Making Headway Against Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are playing an important role in the fight against rapid ʻōhiʻa death. Since 2013, this fungal disease has killed hundreds of thousands of ʻōhiʻa trees and...
View ArticleRetracing Origins of Massive Multi-Ring Crater on the Moon
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reconstructed the extreme collision that created one of the Moon’s largest craters 3.8 billion...
View ArticleUH Researcher Awarded $4.5M to Study Breast Cancer, Leukemia
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center Assistant Professor Lana Garmire was recently awarded two new National Institutes of Health grants totaling $4.5 million to use Big Data to study preeclampsia,...
View ArticleClimate Change May Become a Serious Threat to Kaua‘i’s Birds
By Ruby Pap Over the last few months, there’s been a lot of scary news about mosquitos spreading human diseases such as dengue fever, not to mention the looming threat of zika. Have you also heard that...
View ArticleNew UH Study: Warm Climate More Sensitive to CO2 Changes
It is well-established in the scientific community that increases in atmospheric CO2 levels result in global warming, but the magnitude of the effect may vary depending on average global temperature,...
View ArticleNew UH Study Explains Mysterious Source of Methane in the Ocean
For decades, marine chemists have faced an elusive paradox. The surface waters of the world’s oceans are supersaturated with the greenhouse gas methane, yet most species of microbes that can generate...
View ArticleNew Model Reveals Adaptations of World’s Most Abundant Ocean Microbe
Pacific Ocean, home to Prochlorococcus. Photo courtesy of Tara Clemente/UH SOEST Researchers from David Karl’s laboratory at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and from Professor Jens Nielsen’s...
View ArticleRapid ‘Ōhia Death Kills Giant Tree on Big Island, Keeps Spreading (w/ video)
A centuries-old ‘ōhia tree killed by disease on the Big Island. Photo courtesy of DLNR From the road, in the Laupahoehoe Section of the Hilo Forest Reserve, Steve Bergfeld of the Hawaiʻi Department of...
View ArticleUH Scientists Drill Deep to Gain Insights into East African Climate History
Lake Challa on the border of Kenya and Tanzania. Photo courtesy of UH Researchers from all over the world, including from the University of Hawai‘i, gathered in November at a beautiful but unassuming...
View ArticleIce is Everywhere on Dwarf Planet Ceres
Schematic illustration of path of water molecule in gravity field of Ceres. Some water molecules fall into cold traps near rotational poles. Image courtesy of UH At first glance, Ceres, the largest...
View ArticleGiving the Sun a Brake
An image of the Sun taken with The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. HMI observes the full solar disk with a resolution of 1 arcsecond. Photo courtesy...
View ArticleWhat I Know
By Ruby Pap A learning/data gathering on Kaua‘i's Eastside. Photo by Ruby Pap Last month left me questioning everything I thought I knew. The morning after the national election, many of us woke up to...
View ArticlePan-STARRS Releases Largest Digital Sky Survey to the World
Pan-STARRS1 Observatory on Haleakala. Photo courtesy of UH The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) project at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy...
View ArticleScientists: Deep-Sea Octopods Use Manganese Nodules as Breeding Grounds
New octopod species near Kaʻena Ridge, Hawaiʻi, observed in 2011. Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute/University of Hawaiʻi Manganese nodules on the seabed are an important breeding...
View ArticleThe Shifting Sands of Waimea Beach: New Data Evaluates Kikiaola Sand Bypass
By Ruby Pap Homeowner propagates vegetation on the newly established dune, hoping to retain the sand for as long as possible in front of the property. Charles Blay with his surveying equipment pictured...
View ArticleEnvironmental Science Undergraduate Students Make New Hawaiʻi Discoveries
Mia Delano working at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. Photo courtesy of UH Two undergraduate students in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Global Environmental Science degree program have...
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