HIMB in the News: Archive

Newspapers and Popular Press Media

October 9: Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Assistant Researcher Teresa Lewis and Chuck Helsley, former director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and UH Sea Grant researcher emeritus, are combing forces with the Oceanic Institute and have received $400,000 for research on open-ocean fish farming that will help improve aquaculture off O‘ahu and the Big Island. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of the Oceanic Institute (click on it to see the full version).
September 12: The United States Coral Reef Task Force has requested that all US jurisdictions develop local action strategies (LAS) for dealing with threats to coral and coral reef fisheries. We are soliciting comments and suggestions on the Final Draft of the Hawai‘i Climate Change and Marine Disease LAS.

June 13: Tuning in to sharks’ electrosensory “sixth sense” at HIMB, UH Zoology professor Tim Tricas and doctoral student Ariel Rivera-Vicente are studying the behavior, sensory biology, and ecology of juvenile hammerheads, sandbar sharks, and stingrays in Kane‘ohe Bay.
May 22: Join HIMB scientists aboard the NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai (“embracing pathways to the sea”) on an expedition to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. During the expedition, Outreach Specialist Dr. Malia Rivera will be sending back reports, including photos and podcasts.
April 20: Students at a Honolulu charter school with environmental education as its foundation learn about research techniques at HIMB’s / facilities on Coconut Island. The QuickTime movie clip is available in versions for faster (a 12 MB file) and slower (a 3.8 MB file) connections.

December 25:HIMB researcher Greta Aeby is working to increase the amount of research into coral diseases in Hawai‘i, hoping to avoid the devastation seen in coral communities in other parts of the world. Read more in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
October 18: HIMB researcher Marlin Atkinson studies the relationship between higher concentrations of carbon dioxide and coral growth from Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay. Read more in the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
June 14: Two HIMB scientists are conducting separate research projects at five sites in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to understand how much the animals move between different reefs. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser.
June 13: A radio beam developed in Hawai‘i that stands to revolutionize high-speed wireless transmissions over short distances, has been adopted by HIMB to communicate to the UH Manoa campus through a transceiver at Windward Community College. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
May 30: The defense spending bill passed by the U.S. House contains $2.2 million for expansion of the Marine Mammal Research Program‘s research on hearing of whales and dolphins. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.

December 14: HIMB scientists provide hard evidence to support the theory that sharks navigate with a biological compass. Read more about it in CNN.com and BBC News.
December 9: State and federal partners help Jim Lakey, lab supervisor, and his team at HIMB to remove coral heads blocking the east lagoon channel and moving them to an area that has been devoid of reef since it was dredged in the 1950s. Read more about it in Pacific Business News, the Honolulu Advertiser, and the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
November 6: HIMB scientists contribute their findings to understand the phenomena of the colors in reef-fish. Read more about it in Science News.
August 17: UH faculty members selected HIMB researcher David A. Krupp as one of 4 faculty members who will receive the Hung Wo and Elizabeth Lau Ching Foundation Award for making significant contributions for strengthening ties between the university and the community. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
July 7: The Deep Freeze: Coral Cryopreservation at Coconut Island. An international workshop on Coconut Island hopes to conserve coral species through cryopreservation. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
June 15: The Hawaii Coral Reef Outreach Network looks to ways to protect island reefs from overuse and pollution. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.

October 26: SOEST scientists hope to have a camera on the International Space Station by December 2004 to begin mapping the world's coral reefs. Read more about it at Honolulu Star Bulletin.
June 24: Kelly Benoit-Bird of HIMB leads a mammal research program that is investigating the way dolphins use their unique communication capabilities. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser.
June 2: Using sonar to identify Hawai‘i fish, researchers from HIMB and the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) are testing this non-invasive survey method. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
May 27: Graduate student Jill Zamzow working on Coconut Island discovers that fish make their own sunscreen. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser.

November 3: Visit the Honolulu Star Bulletin website to read about HIMB researchers integrating research and education in the study of scalloped hammerhead sharks in Kane‘ohe Bay.
October 13: A new 2.7-mile wireless virtual-fiber high-speed link will allow for faster access between HIMB and the “mainland” of O‘ahu. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
September 13: SOEST a jewel in UH crown—A look at the UH Manoa school that year in and year out brings in the most research dollars to the university. Read more about it in the Pacific Business News.
August 1: HIMB is planning for renovations and additional facilities at its Coconut Island headquarters in Kaneohe Bay. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser.
May 22: Check out this KHNL News story to read about the bottom fish project at Coconut Island: “The Best Place in the World to Study Marine Biology.”

KHON (Fox) focuses on research being conducted at HIMB (35 MB)
KGMB (CBS) covers Dr. Kim Holland's tiger shark research
Part 1 (40 MB), Part 2 (54 MB)
KITV (ABC) reports on HIMB research on shark electroreception (47 MB)

Giant Sea Jelly
This animal, rare in Hawaiian waters, measured over two feet in diameter! It was brought to Coconut Island for a short time, and then released.

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