Reading time: 2minutes 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.
Reading time: 2minutes The sound of the ʻuaʻu or Hawaiian petrel was heard on Maunakea, thanks to the Office of Maunakea Management and the UH Hilo Listening Observatory for Hawaiian Ecosystems Bioacoustics Lab.
Reading time: 3minutes The project used “metabarcoding,” a technique in which all of the DNA in a water sample is analyzed in one step with DNA sequencing.
Reading time: 3minutes UH 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.
Reading time: 3minutes 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.
Reading time: 2minutes David Duffy was awarded the Pacific Seabird Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to seabird management and conservation science.
Reading time: 2minutes Associate professor Megan Porter discovered a unique animal, called a “thread-legged bug,” in an underground lava tube on Hawaiʻi Island.
Reading time: 2minutes UH Mānoa students, administrators and officials signed their names on the final beam of the building’s steel structure before it was lifted into place.
Reading time: 3minutes The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is one of 12 institutions included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2018–2019 Fulbright U.S. Scholars.