How the moon’s ‘wobble’ worsens coastal flooding
This editorial by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Assistant Professor Philip R. Thompson was posted in The Hill on July 20, 2021.
Climate change likely to increase rainfall rate, cloud formation
An undergraduate student worked to develop a computer model of clouds to simulate the effects of climate change on cloud formations.
UH grad fosters reef stewardship, inspires Hawaiʻi’s keiki
Tina Huynh-Nguyen conducted research on a non-native, invasive seaweed that is threatening Hawaiʻi’s native marine biodiversity.
Charting direction for ocean C02 research, climate change
Christopher Sabine co-authored a newly published strategy for comprehensive and coordinated ocean carbon research over the next decade.
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.
