Program saving endangered Hawai?i plants earns national award
The award was presented in Washington, D.C. by a group of approximately 30 local, regional and national conservation organizations.
The award was presented in Washington, D.C. by a group of approximately 30 local, regional and national conservation organizations.
Student Maxwell Darris cultivated bacteria from a biofilm hanging from a pipe carrying condensed water from an air conditioner in Honolulu.
Maile Wong will receive a $375 stipend, a certificate and will present her research at the NCHC conference this November in Chicago.
Future research will explore linkages between wastewater management and limu.
This week's image is from Âé¶¹´«Ã½²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹'s Mark Hixon.
A second grant of more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health furthers UH as a microbiome research center of excellence.
When herbivores are in low abundance, coral reefs are overgrown with seaweeds and begin to suffocate and die.
A UH and °¨¡°ì´Çʻ´Ç ʻ?iwi partnership has transformed the area into an agroforest.
In addition, UH¡¯s flagship campus ranked in 17 other narrow subject areas, all in the nation¡¯s top 100.
Nellie Sugii managed the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program for 25 years and most recently served as Lyon¡¯s interim director for the past two years.