View image credit & caption Research News Giant sea salt aerosols play major role in Hawaii’s coastal clouds, rain Particles scatter light, act as starting point for cloud formation and initiate or limit rainfall January 25, 2024 Despite their tiny sizes, aerosols — such as sea salt, dust and ash — play a significant role …
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Visitors to the East Hawaiʻi Veterans Cemetery No.1 grounds in Hilo have a new map to assist them in locating gravesites thanks to a map created by student geographers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. The team used drones, hands-on fieldwork and extensive geographic information system (GIS) programming to create the map. The online map gives viewers an overhead view of …
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Every curve and every angle of a coral colony holds the key to sustaining an array of marine species, according to University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo public impact research. UH Hilo graduate student Sofia Ferreira led a published study in Nature on predicting how coral reefs in Guam influence habitat complexity. Ferreira, who hails from Paraguay, and marine scientists from UH Hilo analyzed data collected from …
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Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to its fullest potential, seven high school students developed a mobile app that tracks expenses—all within a two-week timeframe. Through an internship with U.S. Department of Education Native Hawaiian Education Act grant grantee, Project Hōkūlani, at the Center on Disability Studies (CDS) in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education (COE), this second cohort of students gained a …
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The University of Hawaiʻi is part of an international group of researchers and Indigenous practitioners that has been awarded a $23-million (Canadian and approximately $17-million U.S.) grant from Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund to work on improving artificial intelligence (AI) through Indigenous knowledge. The project, “Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems,” is Indigenous-led and involves 37 …
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The MEGA Lab of UH Hilo is shifting the ‘culture of science’ with unprecedented engagement from students and community members. The MEGA Lab is reshaping research opportunities for students designed by co-founders John Burns, Cliff Kapono, and Hauani Kane. During their surfing trips together as students, they shared frustrated opinions on stigmas in the culture …
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Link to video and sound (details below): https://bit.ly/3GGH1Xp An investigation into National Science Foundation (NSF) data on funding rates, award types, and proposal ratings from 1996 to 2019 found pervasive racial disparities. The study, recently published in eLife by a team of researchers including University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Associate Professor Rosie Alegado, revealed that white principal investigators …
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UH 2022 tenure and promotion full list Congratulations to our Hawai’i EPSCoR participants who are University of Hawai’i 2022 tenure and promotion recipients. University of Hawai’i at Manoa Tenure and Promotion Jonghyun Lee—Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Water Resources Research Center Alison Nugent —Associate Professor, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of …
Diamond Tachera, a life-long student in Mānoa Valley, joined the spring 2022 commencement celebration after completing a doctoral degree in Earth sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). Though she grew up in Kalama Valley, Oʻahu, Tachera considers Mānoa as part of her home—having attended University Laboratory School from kindergarten through high school. …
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A second high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at the University of Hawaiʻi has been seeded with a $400,000 National Science Foundation grant. Much like the existing HPC, Mana, the new cluster called Koa will serve as a free inter-campus resource for advancing research in such areas as astronomy, chemistry, oceanography, bioinformatics and data science. “We are excited about the capacity …
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