Hawaiʻi could have sustained approximately 250,000 acres of traditional agroecosystems, potentially producing more than one million metric tons of food annually.
The UH Manoa Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific is part of a $500,000 multi-university project that will explore how to make interdisciplinary research more effective and impactful.
UH Mānoa researchers were awarded $792,021 by the National Science Foundation to describe the new species of limu, or marine algae, from Hawaiʻi’s deep waters.
UH Mānoa graduate students Taylor Brack and Georgia Fredeluces earned American Association of University Women grants that will allow them pursue academic work designed to empower women and girls.
Deep in the Honouliuli Forest Reserve a sophisticated monitoring system is being administered by the Pacific Biosciences Research Center to observe Caly or cyanea calycina.
Joanna Philippoff, assistant specialist at UH Mānoa’s College of Education, was awarded $44,000 from the UH Sea Grant College Program for professional development for middle and high school science teachers and internships for students.