Posted on 2:25 am, Friday, June 27, 2014. Tags: brian glazer, loihi seamount, school of ocean and earth science and technology
MEDIA RELEASE Starting June 25, UH Manoa will lead an expedition to Loihi Seamount, southeast of the island of Hawaii, whose base remains largely unexplored. Dr. Brian Glazer, lead scientist and Associate Professor of Oceanography, his team from UHM, and colleagues from the University of Minnesota, IFREMER Centre de Brest and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution […]
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Posted on 10:10 am, Thursday, October 17, 2013. Tags: camilo mora, climate change, school of ocean and earth science and technology, soest, uh-manoa
MEDIA RELEASE An ambitious new study describes the full chain of events by which ocean biogeochemical changes triggered by manmade greenhouse gas emissions may cascade through marine habitats and organisms, penetrating to the deep ocean and eventually influencing humans. Previous analyses have focused mainly on ocean warming and acidification, considerably underestimating the biological and social […]
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Posted on 3:59 am, Monday, June 3, 2013. Tags: erik franklin, school of ocean and earth science and technology
MEDIA RELEASE Researchers from the UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands, including two species currently under consideration as threatened or endangered. They found the order of coral abundance (from highest to lowest) around the […]
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Posted in Environment
Posted on 11:36 pm, Monday, October 29, 2012. Tags: axel timmermann, international pacific research center, matthew widlansky, school of ocean and earth science and technology
MEDIA RELEASE With greenhouse warming, rainfall in the South Pacific islands will depend on two competing effects – an increase due to overall warming and a decrease due to changes in atmospheric water transport – according to a study by an international team of scientists led by Matthew Widlansky and Axel Timmermann at the International […]
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Posted on 10:29 am, Friday, August 31, 2012. Tags: coral reef, david garrison, hollie putnam, school of ocean and earth science and technology
MEDIA RELEASE Researchers at the UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) made a discovery that challenges a major theory in the field of coral reef ecology. The general assumption has been that the more flexible corals are, regarding which species of single-celled algae (Symbiodinium) they host in coral tissues, the […]
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Posted in Environment
Posted on 10:03 pm, Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Tags: hawaii institute of marine biology, michelle gaither, school of ocean and earth science and technology, uh
MEDIA RELEASE Researchers at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit within the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, have made a remarkable new discovery. Biological invasions with known histories are rare, especially in the sea. Fifty-five years ago, the Hawaii Division of Fish […]
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Posted on 12:08 am, Monday, May 7, 2012. Tags: james foster, school of ocean and earth science and technology, tsunami, uh
‘Our discovery indicates that the vast fleet of commercial ships traveling the ocean each day could become a network of accurate tsunami sensors’
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Posted on 2:24 am, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Tags: fred bullard, school of ocean and earth science and technology, uh
Fred Bullard’s daughter gifts $1.8M for UH SOEST endowment
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Posted in Education, Featured