Scientific publications and other articles generated by HURL work
2001-2012 Publication Summary
Year |
Journal Articles |
Other Reports |
Maps |
Total |
2001 |
4 (2) |
5 |
|
9 |
2002 |
12 (6) |
5 |
|
17 |
2003 |
3 (2) |
|
1 (1) |
4 |
2004 |
9 (9) |
2 |
1 |
12 |
2005 |
10 (9) |
26 |
|
36 |
2006 |
17 (17) |
21 |
|
38 |
2007 |
6 (6) |
13 |
|
19 |
2008 |
23 (21) |
21 |
|
44 |
2009 |
15 (14) |
9 (2) |
|
24 |
2010 |
16 (15) |
20 (2) |
|
36 |
2011 |
13 (10) |
8 (3) |
|
21 |
2012 |
2 (2) |
|
|
2 |
TOTAL |
130 (113) |
130 |
2 |
262 |
| |
(xx) number of e-copies
|
|
Most recent
Mustard Bombs Off Pearl Harbor Investigated for Potential Health Hazards
Thousands of unexploded chemical weapons are sitting on the ocean floor about five miles off of Oahu’s famed southern beaches. Research shows that the military dumped about 16,000 bombs filled with mustard agent, each weighing 100 pounds, off the coast of Pearl Harbor during World War II. At the time, it was a common method of disposal. Now, decades later, with $3 million in funding from the U.S. Army, scientists at the University of Hawai‘i are investigating whether these weapons could be posing a risk to human health or the marine ecosystem. Read more here.
Availability of our Deep-Sea Animal ID guide online.
With over 30 years of diving to the deep sea in manned submersibles, scientists at the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory have seen a plethora of organisms most people will never have a chance to see. As one of the few institutions that creates detailed logs of all video produced with the submersibles, HURL has created and built up a knowledge base that is featured in a photo-guide of all the organisms one might encounter in the deep-sea around Hawai‘i. Until recently, that guide was only available to scientists preparing for upcoming dives. Now scientists around the world, as well as the general public, can access HURL’s deepwater animal photo-guide online. Read the press release here (pdf). KITV report here. Raising Islands report here.
Petition to re-instate HURL Funding
A petition was launched to demonstrate public support for HURL's work. Read more here.
Funding Being HURLed Away
Science Director, John R. Smith, asks scientists that have utilized HURL assets for help generating letters of support to the U.S. Congress, which has the power to re-instating funding for deep-sea research. Read the letter here.
Land-Ocean Connections Discovered Off Moloka‘i
Scientists from SOEST and colleagues from other institutions recently discovered that land-based plant material and coastal macroalgae indirectly support the increased abundances of bottom fish in submarine canyons, like those off the north shore of the island of Moloka‘i. Oceanography PhD candidate Fabio De Leo, lead author of the report, his PhD advisor Craig Smith, and their colleagues used manned submersibles operated by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) to perform numerous video transects in two submarine canyons off Moloka‘i at depths ranging from 350 to 1,050 m (~1,000 to ~3,000 ft).
Read more about it in Molokai Dispatch, Science Daily, Science Codex, and Maui Now. You can also download the press release (PDF).
Sea Hunt
Story by Paul Wood in Hana Hou Magazine, Maritime archaeologist Hans Van Tilburg estimates there are some two thousand wrecks in Hawaiian waters -- and he'd like to explore every one of them. (pdf)
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