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UH joins new national consortium to advance microbiome research

January 14, 2020

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers Margaret McFall-Ngai and Nicole Hynson, co-authored a publication announcing the new consortium and its goals for advancing the far-reaching field of microbiome research.

UH Hilo graduate student works to save native songbird

December 13, 2019

Alex Bischer and other researchers are making efforts in Maunakea to save the palila, a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper.

Harmful staph, bacteria in Hilo Bay increase with rainfall runoff

October 28, 2019

A team of scientists from the UH Hilo has published a paper on how rainfall-driven runoff increases concentrations of harmful bacteria in Hilo Bay.

UH Hilo ecologists pioneer data-driven extinction risk assessment

September 26, 2019

Researchers Maya Munstermann and Matthew Knope hope the results of their innovative research will help conservationists and policy makers develop better strategies for protecting endangered species.

Kauaʻi losing Hawaiian honeycreepers songs

September 13, 2019

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.

Mānoa honors program graduate named elite Portz Scholar

September 11, 2019

UH Manoa graduate Max Nakamoto was one of only three scholars selected throughout the country.

Invasive lionfish invasion focus of research model

June 10, 2019

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

May 15, 2019

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.

New eDNA technology used to quickly assess coral reefs

April 17, 2019

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

April 9, 2019

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.