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Given its unique geographic location CIMAR is primed to conduct research necessary for understanding and predicting environmental change in the Pacific Islands Region, conserving and managing coastal and marine resources in island environments, and supporting the region’s economic, social, and environmental needs. From its original research themes (Equatorial Oceanography, Climate, and Tsunamis and other Long-period Waves), CIMAR research now encompasses eight themes, all aligned with the NOAA strategic plan and the University’s Indo-Pacific Mission.
This theme‘s research focuses on enabling an ecosystem approach to management in the Pacific Islands region, and on science support for the delivery of ecosystem services.
This theme‘s research focuses on enabling an ecosystem approach to management in the Pacific Islands region, and on science support for the delivery of ecosystem services.
Focused on the Pacific Ocean Basin, research under this theme is associated with the collection and analysis of physical, biological, and chemical observations of the ocean that will yield valuable information about large-scale ocean property distributions and currents, including their variability over long time scales.
Focused on the Pacific Ocean Basin, research under this theme is associated with the collection and analysis of physical, biological, and chemical observations of the ocean that will yield valuable information about large-scale ocean property distributions and currents, including their variability over long time scales.
Research in this theme is associated with coastal and deep ocean observations, air-/space-borne remote sensing (e.g., planes, satellites), and economic and social observing systems to understand the present state of the various ecological, environmental, economic, and social parameters in the Pacific Islands region.
Research in this theme is associated with coastal and deep ocean observations, air-/space-borne remote sensing (e.g., planes, satellites), and economic and social observing systems to understand the present state of the various ecological, environmental, economic, and social parameters in the Pacific Islands region.
Research conducted under this theme is focused on understanding oceanic and atmospheric processes associated with global and regional climate change on various temporal scales, including the impacts of climate variability.
Research conducted under this theme is focused on understanding oceanic and atmospheric processes associated with global and regional climate change on various temporal scales, including the impacts of climate variability.
Research under this theme will lead to improved forecasting of the frequency and magnitude of the variability of ecosystem processes within the Pacific Islands region.
Research under this theme will lead to improved forecasting of the frequency and magnitude of the variability of ecosystem processes within the Pacific Islands region.
Researchers focus on multidisciplinary research involving atmosphere-ocean carbon dioxide exchange, water column carbon dioxide distributions and transport, and data interpretation and modeling, emphasizing the Pacific Ocean Basin.
Researchers focus on multidisciplinary research involving atmosphere-ocean carbon dioxide exchange, water column carbon dioxide distributions and transport, and data interpretation and modeling, emphasizing the Pacific Ocean Basin.
This theme‘s research includes development of technology, research tools, and scientific approaches to effective protection and restoration of living marine resources, habitats, and ecosystems.
This theme‘s research includes development of technology, research tools, and scientific approaches to effective protection and restoration of living marine resources, habitats, and ecosystems.
Research conducted under this theme is associated with improving the predictability of the onset, duration, and impact of tsunami and other wave-driven coastal flooding, with a focus on the Pacific Islands region.
Research conducted under this theme is associated with improving the predictability of the onset, duration, and impact of tsunami and other wave-driven coastal flooding, with a focus on the Pacific Islands region.
Credit: ADMB Project
Modular Optical Underwater Survey System (MOUSS) testing in a tank at the IRC seawater facility.
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Three hundred sixty-degree cameras showing a group (X=9) of opakapaka (Pristipomoides filamentosus).
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A gray reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) pictured alongside a school of blackfin barracuda (Sphyraena qenie)
JIMAR reef fish survey diver encountering a reef shark.
Monk seal tangled in marine debris in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands.
An autonomous acoustic recorder drifts off of Alamagan during the 2021 Mariana Archipelago