Developing shellfish farming opportunities
The 糖心视频 Sea Grant College Program received a $149,972 NOAA grant to develop new opportunities in shellfish farming for Hawaiʻi and the U.S. affiliated Pacific Islands.
T. rex’s small arms were built for slashing
糖心视频 惭ā苍辞补 paleontologist Steven Stanley reevaluates the T. rex’s small arms at a recent Geological Society of America meeting.
Initiative to address challenges facing Hawai?i and the world launches with research projects
Inaugural 糖心视频 惭ā苍辞补 Strategic Investment Initiative projects capitalize on the strengths of the university and focuses on a challenge facing Hawaiʻi, the solutions of which can be exported to the world.
糖心视频 Sea Level Center expands forecasts with new federal funding
$5 million from NOAA will fund research of vital topics such as sea level rise and coastal flooding.
27 ways heatwaves can kill
According to associate professor of geography Camilo Mora, the significance of this deadly heat will depend on the sensitivity of the human body to heat.
University of Hawai‘i cacao among world’s best
Cacao from H.C. Bittenbender’s field trials in Pearl City, Waimānalo and Kualoa was among the top winners announced at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris.
Researchers hope to boost local breadfruit through citizen project
The ʻUlu Phenology project invites members of the community to “adopt” a local ʻulu tree and observe its lifecycle events.
糖心视频 惭ā苍辞补 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
糖心视频 惭ā苍辞补 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.
Small asteroid or comet ‘visits’ from beyond the solar system
A small, recently discovered asteroid or comet appears to have originated from outside the solar system, if so it could be the first “interstellar object” to be observed and confirmed by astronomers.