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September 9 : UH tackling tsunami reactions The National Science Foundation has awarded $500,000
to a group headed by UH volcanology professor Bruce Houghton to develop
a "tsunami preparedness model" to help emergency workers improve
public alerts. Image courtesy of Chris Gregg / ETSU |
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September 7 : Retired professor pioneered tropical meteorology James C. Sadler, an internationally noted meteorologist who had a distinguished
career at the University of Hawai‘i, where he taught meteorology 22
years, is remembered for being “one of the foremost meteorologists
of his time, and one of the founders of tropical meteorology as a discipline.” |
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August 10 : Submarine Ring of Fire Expedition a Resounding Success The Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory and the crew of the K-O-K
return from a highly successful deep-diving cruise in the South Pacific
exploring submarine volcanoes. Image courtesy of NOAA/NURP |
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July 5: Klaus Keil appointed to NAS Space Studies Board Klaus Keil, interim dean of SOEST and planetary scientist, has been appointed to the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin . Image courtesy of EAUR/UH |
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June 28 : SOEST researchers study sea floor for catastrophic events Gary McMurtry and Lloyd French will be using a deep ocean mass spectrometer to look at the chemistry of seismically active sea floor off Costa Rica. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin . Image courtesy of Gary McMurtyr/SOEST |
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June 21 : Tiny ocean species hold surprises University of Hawai‘i oceanographers are part of an international group trying to unravel the secrets of microscopic life in the ocean. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin . Image courtesy of HOT /SOEST |
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June 14 : HIMB scientists track shark movement Two UH ocean scientists, both with the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, are conducting separate research projects at five sites in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to understand how much the animals move between different reefs. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser. Image courtesy of HIMB/SOEST |
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June 13 : New radio technology opens possibilities for UH A radio beam developed in Hawaii that stands to revolutionize high-speed wireless transmissions over short distances, has been adopted by the UH Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, on Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay, to communicate to the UH Manoa campus through a transceiver at Windward Community College. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of HIMB/SOEST |
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June 12 : Underwater Wealth UH microbial researchers will be among those studing the discovered microorganisms gathered during dives in the South Pacific Ocean using HURL's submersibles. The microorganisms are being researched for possible industrial and pharmaceutical uses. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of HURL / SOEST |
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June 9 : Lab to write Solar History A $1.5 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation will allow HIGP researchers to obtain an ion probe to analyze bits of cosmic dust.Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of UH EAUR / SOEST |
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May 31 : Hunting "Ghost Nets" in the Pacific Mary Donohue, Associate Director of Hawaii Sea Grant, comments on a joint NOAA/NASA venture to locate and clean up lost fishing nets in the Pacific Ocean. Listen to the NPR interview on All Things Considered. Image courtesy of Hawaii Sea Grant / SOEST |
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May 30 : Federal funds to aid HIMB research on ocean mammal noise The defense spending bill passed by the U.S. House contains $2.2 million for expansion of the Marine Mammal Research Program's research on hearing of whales and dolphins. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of SOEST |
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May 28 : High-olivine region expanded on Mars A study co-authored by HIGP researcher Victoria Hamilton has concluded that a region of high-olvine Martian bedrock is actually 4 times larger than previously thought, offering clues about water — or the lack of water — on the Red Planet. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser, or the Honolulu Star Bulletin. You can also see the pdf of the Press Release. Image courtesy of Vicky Hamilton/ HIGP/ SOEST |
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May 19 and 26 : New South Pacific volcano discovered Scientists using HURL submersibes have discovered a new volcano off of Samoa, named Nafanua after the Samoan goddess of war. Read more about the volcano on the KGMB 9 web site, and the AP article on ABCNews.com. There's also a May 19 story on South Pacific cruise on the KGMB 9 web site. Image courtesy of SCRIPPS Institute of Oceanography |
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May 23 : UH gets $1.5M astronomy grant The W.M. Keck Foundation has given the University of Hawaii 1.5 Million dollars to support a new ion microprobe, part of a new UH cosmochemistry laboratory. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser, on the KHNL web site. You can also see the Press Release. Image courtesy of Bob Chinn/ University Relations |
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May 18 : Judith Vergun receives Presidental Award The Kumu Ola: Source of Knowledge Director is among recipients of Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Read more about it in the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Or see the Press Release. Image courtesy of Bob Chinn/ University Relations |
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April 30 : Tuna fears exaggerated John Sibert and colleagues from the Pelagic Fisheries Research Program say that recent claims of Pacific tuna being disastrously overfished are exaggerated. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Discussion and responses to the Nature letter can be found on the PFRP Large Pelagics web site. Image courtesy of Pelagic Fisheries Research Program/SOEST |
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April 13 : Sea Grant turns to urban issues Long associated with environmental and coastal issues, UH’s Sea Grant College Program is quickly transforming its mission and reach to deal with problems of urban design and growth. Read more about it in the Honolulu Advertiser. Image courtesy of Hawaii Sea Grant/SOEST |
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April 5 : Cyanobacteria toxin linked to nerve ailments Oceanographer and CMMED director Bob Bidigare was part of a research team that discovered that bacteria found throughout the world might produce a toxin linked to certain neurological diseases. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of Dept. of Oceanography/SOEST |
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March 29: Earth's moon is still a puzzle... Planetary scientist Paul Lucey describes how craters in the lunar polar regions are super-cold traps for the debris scattered by comets crashing into the surface, and could provide clues to the origins of life on Earth. Read more about it in Space.com. Image courtesy of NASA |
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March 28: Monitoring the reefs Oceanographers in SOEST have been studying “coupled environments” of land and water in some of Hawai‘i's coastal zones to determine whether they emit carbon dioxide or absorb it as does the ocean. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of Fred MacKenzie/SOEST |
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March 21: UH models calculate tsunami flooding Hawaii Sea Grant and ORE researchers have developed sophisticated models to predict coastal flooding in Hawaii from tsunamis generated by distant earthquakes. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of Sea Grant/SOEST |
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March 20: HURL scientists discover Japanese submarine The deep-diving scientists of the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory's Pisces submarines have discovered the remains of the Imperial Japanese Navy's I-401 submarine, a gigantic underwater aircraft carrier built to bomb the Panama Canal. For more information and pictures please see the HURL I-401 web site. You can also read about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of HURL/SOEST |
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March 9: Swarm of undersea quakes prompts rapid response cruise Researchers from the Department of Oceanography were part of a RIDGE program rapid response cruise following a swarm of undersea quakes off of Vancouver Island, Canada. For a list of articles written about this cruise see the VENTS program research page. A post cruise review is also available from the Seattle Times. Image courtesy of PMEL/NOAA |
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March 9: Vessel readies for deep-sea expedition Researchers with the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory, jointly operated by UH and the NOAA, will leave on their most challenging mission yet on March 18 when they will begin their 5-month exploration of some of the world's largest and most active undersea volcanoes, stretching from New Zealand to Tonga. UH anthropologists also will investigate the USS Chehalis, a shipwreck off American Samoa. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image courtesy of HURL/SOEST |
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Feb 24: SOEST oceanographer receives defense grants Margaret McManus from the Department of Oceanography is one of several UH scientists to receive grants from the Defense Department to purchase state-of-the-art equipment to perform cutting-edge defense research. Read more about it in Pacific Business News. Image courtesy of M. McManus/SOEST |
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Feb 12: HIGP professor provides tsunami clues Read more about it in SitNews (Alaska) Image of the Scotch Cap Lighthouse courtesy of US Coast Guard and NOAA/NGDC |
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Feb 8: Fred Duennebier named UH Outstanding Alumni
Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. Image of Fred and Terri Duennebier courtesy of Fred Duennebier |
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Jan 27: George Walker Remembered
Read more about him in the Honolulu Star Bulletin, the Guardian, and the Times. Image of George Walker courtesy of SOEST Publications. |
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Jan 23 and 24: Mapping Hawai'i’s cataclysmic future SOEST researchers try to map out Hawai'i’s cataclysmic future in order prepare the state should tsunamis and earthquakes occur. Read more about it in the Honolulu Star Bulletin (part one and part two) Image courtesy of Gerard Fryer, HIGP/SOEST |
Archives -SOEST in the News: 2004 |
