Oceanography graduate recognized as an International Rising Talent
Anela Choy was honored for her work on how human activity such as fishing and pollution shape deep ocean food webs.
Self-driving robots collect water samples to create snapshots of ocean microbes
UH and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists will track and study ocean microbes in unprecedented detail using a small fleet of long-range autonomous underwater vehicles.
Researchers create first map showing human and environmental impact on Hawai¡®i reefs
The study synthesized 10 years of datasets for the first time to get a big-picture perspective on Â鶹´«Ã½'s reef health and regional impacts and it provides a foundation for further research and informs policies to protect coral reefs.
Ocean climate change research sets benchmark
UH has completed 300 research cruises to Station ALOHA, about 60 miles north of Oʻahu, one of the best-sampled places in the world¡¯s oceans with a decades-long record of how the ocean responds to climate change.
Acidic oceans pose global coral reef threat
Many of the world¡¯s coral reefs could begin to erode within 30 years as a result of increasing ocean acidity, according to a paper in Science co-authored by UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Professor Eric DeCarlo and former graduate student Patrick Drupp.
UH experts appointed to city climate change commission
The role of the commission, which includes UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹'s Rosie Alegado, Makena Coffman and Chip Fletcher, is to gather the latest science and information on climate change impacts to Â鶹´«Ã½.
Research reveals how climate change may affect Hawaiian fishpond aquaculture
Results published recently in PlosONE indicate that there is a relationship between two periods of high fish mortality at He?eia Fishpond and changes in the climate.
Director of NOAA lab to join UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ as oceanography professor
Chris Sabine's research emphasis is on the role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle.
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ scientists part of a $6 million grant to investigate aquatic viruses
Oceanographers Grieg Steward and Kyle Edwards received a National Science Foundation grant to probe how viruses impact microbes critical to our lives—from producing oxygen to growing food.
Exploring the ocean¡¯s deepest zone with $1.2M Keck Foundation grant
UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ is on track to build a Hadal Water Column Profiler which will enable high quality physical, chemical and biological sampling of the water column from the deepest zone in the ocean—the hadal zone.