Fishing networks study may save sharks
Tuna fishers who network with their competition may be able to stop thousands of sharks a year from being accidentally captured and killed in the Pacific Ocean.
Shark study helps explain higher incidence of encounters off Maui
The research suggests awareness is best way to avoid shark bites.
Kealani Cook publishes Native Hawaiian foreign mission work article
UH West Oʻahu’s Kealani Cook examines the effects of post-millennial thinking on Native Hawaiian relationships with their American missionary teachers, Islander hosts and their pre-Christian past.
Childhood and children’s literature in the age of nation-states
UH West Oʻahu Assistant Professor Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo publishes Can the Child Speak? Childhood in the Age of Nation-States, Childrens Rights and the Role of Childrens Literature.
Online resources in STEM education project receives national library grant
UH Mānoa¡¯s Rich Gazan has been awarded a $491,973 Institute of Museum and Library Services grant for the project Online Q&A in STEM Education: Curating the Wisdom of the Crowd.
Probability of Aleutians mega-earthquake estimated
Researchers estimate the probability of a magnitude 9+ earthquake in the Aleutian Islands—an event with sufficient power to create a mega-tsunami especially threatening to Â鶹´«Ã½.
A strategic perspective to planning for cyber attacks
UH West Oʻahu Assistant Professor Matthew Chapman’s paper describes a framework intended to provide a strategic perspective to planning for malicious activity.
Using math to predict Ebola
Through mathematical modeling, Yong and colleagues found that actions taken to halt the spread of the deadly virus may in fact increase transmission.
A helicopter and paintball gun: New tools in the battle to remove invasive species
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹'s James Leary invented a way to adapt pneumatic paintball guns to shoot small gelatin capsules filled with herbicide to control invasive plants and trees.
UH leads $20M research partnership to secure Hawai?i¡¯s water future
ʻIke Wai project will provide critical data and models to water resource stakeholders.