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New understanding of ocean passageway could aid climate change forecasts

June 23, 2014

The passageway that links the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean is acting differently because of climate change, and now its new behavior could, in turn, affect climate in both ocean basins in new ways.

Water in Moon rocks provides clues and questions

May 28, 2014

A study in Nature Geoscience sheds new light—and raises new questions—about lunar history and the presence of water on the Moon.

UH partners on project to improve nuclear arms control technology

May 6, 2014

Milton Garces, of Hawaiʻi Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, will lead infrasound portion of program focused on improving the nation’s nuclear arms control technology.

Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology director candidates visiting campus

April 2, 2014

The Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology director candidates will be giving public presentations on the UH Mānoa campus.

Scientists find interplanetary dust particles could bring water to Earth

January 27, 2014

UH Mānoa scientists discover interplanetary dust particles contain water and organics necessary for origin of life on Earth.

U.S. volcanic dangers focus of NSF grant

September 30, 2013

UH Mānoa SOEST awarded grant by U.S. National Science Foundation aimed at mitigating volcanic disasters.

Denise Evans estate funds ocean and cancer research

February 19, 2013

UH Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and the UH Cancer Center each receives 1.5 million from the Denise B. Evans estate.

The economic contribution of the Hawaii Innovation Initiative

January 22, 2013

The University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization analyzes the potential economic contributions of the University of Hawaiʻi Innovation Initiative.

UH Manoa holds Mars rover landing viewing event

August 3, 2012

UH Manoa holds Mars rover landing viewing event on August 5 at the Institute for Astronomy.

Tiny comet grain dates Jupiter’s formation

March 9, 2012

Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology researchers discover that Jupiter formed more than three million years after the formation of the first solids in the solar system.