UH students return from final Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition
UH marine science student examined small crustaceans on the final student expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor.
Largest ever private award to UH funds microbial oceanography research
The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education has been awarded $40 million from the Simons Foundation.
New model predicts Ala Wai Canal brown water runoff
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ oceanographers and the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System have created the PacIOOS Ala Wai Turbidity Plume Model.
Christopher Lepczyk helps author roadmap on natural resources
Science, Education and Outreach Roadmap for Natural Resources reports that research, education and outreach are key to managing environmental issues.
Research leads to sensor breakthrough, promises safer structures
David Ma and Hui Zhang have achieved an efficient method of harvesting mechanical energy to power autonomous sensor networks.
Antarctic ice-sheet less stable than previously assumed
A Nature article points to an unstable Antarctic ice sheet that can abruptly reorganize Southern Hemisphere climate and cause rapid global sea level rise.
Water in Moon rocks provides clues and questions
A study in Nature Geoscience sheds new light—and raises new questions—about lunar history and the presence of water on the Moon.
Precursor volcano to the island of O?ahu discovered
Researchers, including UH Mānoa’s John Sinton discovered that Oʻahu consists of three major Hawaiian shield volcanoes, not two.
The leaf doctor is in
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources plant pathologist Scot Nelson creates Leaf Doctor, a new plant disease assessment app.
Researchers find unconscious racism in death-penalty juries
Law Professor Justin D. Levinson is the lead author of a study indicating that, on an unconscious level, Americans seem to value the worth of white lives over black lives.