UN Decade of Ocean Science endorses deep-sea projects involving UH scientists
Two research projects involving UH Mānoa scientists have been endorsed as part of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development program.
Two research projects involving UH Mānoa scientists have been endorsed as part of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development program.
Researchers and students joined the deepsea action via live streaming video from the UH remotely operated vehicle Luʻukai.
Teams were challenged to develop concepts using wave energy to drive small-scale desalination systems for use in disaster response scenarios.
Hālona is a mobile wave-powered autonomous underwater vehicle docking station designed to collect oceanographic data.
During the three-year innovative project, the team of researchers and engineers will develop a wave-energy converter concept culminating in a set of tests in a sophisticated mainland wave tank.
Findings were not a surprise, say researchers at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.
UH Mānoa is on track to build a Hadal Water Column Profiler which will enable high quality physical, chemical and biological sampling of the water column from the deepest zone in the ocean—the hadal zone.