Welcome to the home page of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (CIMAR). CIMAR was created under the name JIMAR in 1977 under a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UH). Since 1988, JIMAR (and now CIMAR) has been part of the University’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). CIMAR serves as NOAA’s cooperative institute (CI) for the Pacific Islands region.
UH Sea Level Center - 2024 RCUH Outstanding Employees of the Year 1st Place
The UH Sea Level Center operates and maintains more than 90 sea-level and GPS monitoring stations that provide real-time observations from remote and under-resourced locations, such as Haiti, Kiribati, and Tanzania, that would otherwise not be available. They also helped modernize Hawai’i’s tsunami water-level monitoring network.
CIMAR seeks to:
- facilitate innovative collaborative research between scientists at NOAA and the University of Hawaiʻi
- provide educational opportunities for basic and applied research in the Life and Earth Sciences at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral levels
- advance interactions through the support of visiting scientists and post-doctoral scholars
- promote the transition of research outcomes to operational products and services that benefit the Pacific Islands Region
Project Spotlights
CIMAR supports dozens of projects that employ over employ around 100 individuals across diverse fields, including ecosystem-based management; ocean monitoring and forecasting; ecosystem monitoring; climate science and impacts; ecological forecasting; air-sea interactions; protection and restoration of resources; and tsunamis and long-period ocean waves.
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A school of jacks follows CIMAR diver Corinne Amir collecting photogrammetry images at Manawai. Credit: Ari Halperin
Credit: Jeff Hare
Credit: Jeff Hare
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CIMAR Symposium 2024. Credit: CIMAR Admin
Credit: Jeff Hare
Domino damselfish (Dascyllus trimaculatus) shelter in a branch Pocillopora grandis colony on Maui’s reefs. Credit: Rebecca Weible, CIMAR
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CIMAR logo. Credit: Amanda Toperoff
SOEST logo. Credit: School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technologies
NOAA logo. Credit: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association
Credit: Molly Scott