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Box jellyfish research breakthrough by Manoa biochemist
Angel Yanagihara, a researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has developed a medicine that effectively treats the sting of a box jellyfish. Though the sting is usually just a painful nuisance in Hawaiʻi, it is deadly in places like Australia, Thailand and Indonesia. Yanagihara works for the university’s Pacific Biosciences Research Center and the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) Model Now Tracks Lighter Tsunami Debris
The IPRC model tracking the tsunami debris across the Pacific now reflects the effects of wind on the movement of debris with varying fractions of surface above water. Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner have added five additional windage levels to the original model, which is based on data from scientific drifting buoys with drogues at 15 meters deep. Items with high windage could have arrived on the West Coast by the end of 2011, according to this adjusted model. Read more....To view the animation as gif file click here; as avi file click here. To view separate windages: wind_00.gif; wind_00.avi; wind_02.gif; wind_02.avi; wind_04.gif; wind_04.avi; wind_05.gif; wind_05.avi
Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) featured in National Geographic series
National Geographic's five-part series, "Alien Deep" features the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL), the only U.S. deep submergence facility in the Pacific Rim tasked with supporting undersea research necessary to fulfill the mission, goals, and objectives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), along with other national interests of importance. Over 30 years of submersible operations have resulted in nearly 1900 dives representing 9300 hours underwater, and a benthic ecology database derived from in-house video record logging of over 125,000 entries based on 1100 unique deep-sea animal identifications in the Hawaiian Archipelago. With emerging interest in marine resources of the Pacific and renewable energy from the sea, HURL's contributions will continue to play an essential role in scientific research and advanced technology.Testimonials
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