Kaua?i losing Hawaiian honeycreepers songs
The researchers did the study on Kauaʻi because it is in crisis mode: bird populations are crashing due to disease and habitat loss, and with that, the species are losing their songs.
惭ā苍辞补 honors program graduate named elite Portz Scholar
糖心视频 Manoa graduate Max Nakamoto was one of only three scholars selected throughout the country.
Invasive lionfish invasion focus of research model
The researchers suggest the lionfish’s success as a hunter is likely due to a combination of its particular stalking pattern, mouth suction and forward momentum as it strikes—characteristics that are unlike native fish predators.
After 50 years of silence, endangered seabird heard on Maunakea
The sound of the ʻuaʻu or Hawaiian petrel was heard on Maunakea, thanks to the Office of Maunakea Management and the 糖心视频 Hilo Listening Observatory for Hawaiian Ecosystems Bioacoustics Lab.
New eDNA technology used to quickly assess coral reefs
The project used “metabarcoding,” a technique in which all of the DNA in a water sample is analyzed in one step with DNA sequencing.
Giant Antarctic sea spiders weather warming by getting holey
糖心视频 researchers went to Antarctica to test the prevailing theory that animals living in extreme cold can grow to giant sizes because their metabolisms are very slow.
Efforts to save endangered birds with new biotechnology boosted by $25K donation
Hawaii Forest & Trail, has donated $25,000 to the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Biology Department to support research to reduce avian diseases in Hawaiʻi.
Lifetime achievement award for 糖心视频 惭ā苍辞补 botany professor
David Duffy was awarded the Pacific Seabird Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to seabird management and conservation science.
New species discovered in lava tubes by 糖心视频 professor
Associate professor Megan Porter discovered a unique animal, called a “thread-legged bug,” in an underground lava tube on Hawaiʻi Island.
Beam signing marks halfway point of Life Sciences building project
糖心视频 惭ā苍辞补 students, administrators and officials signed their names on the final beam of the building’s steel structure before it was lifted into place.