1st Pacific Islander to reach ocean’s deepest point is UH grad student
Nicole Yamase, a PhD candidate in the Marine Biology Graduate Program, explored the Western pool of the Challenger Deep.
Scientific breakthrough: First images of freshwater plumes at sea
Researchers demonstrated a new method to detect freshwater plumes between the seafloor and ocean surface.
Ocean surface slicks create superhighway for diverse fishes
Researchers found these ocean features create a superhighway of nursery habitat for more than 100 species of commercially and ecologically important fishes.
Ancient rivers reveal multiple Sahara Desert greenings
Researchers extracted sediment cores from the sea which tell the story of major environmental changes in North Africa over the past 160,000 years.
Climate, carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years reconciled
UH oceanographers reconciled climate and carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years—solving a controversy debated in scientific literature for decades.
Fleet of robots successfully tracks, monitors marine microbes
Researchers have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy.
Doubling tropical cyclone risk to Hawaiʻi possible
Global warming will intensify landfalling tropical cyclones of category three or higher in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, while suppressing the formation of weaker events.
UH oceanographer’s TED talk made 2020’s most watched list
Angelicque White’s presentation to the National Academy of Sciences on what ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate is a most watched TED Talk.
Murky ocean impacts from COVID-19 emissions reductions
A team of scientists shared the results of their research that showed no detectable slowing of ocean acidification due to COVID-19 emissions reductions.
New tool projects high-tide flooding in U.S. coastal locations
UH Sea Level Center Director Phil Thompson developed a tool to assess how sea-level rise will affect the frequency of high-tide flooding in U.S. coastal locations.
