Oceanography graduate Gabrielle Ellis earned the 2024–25 Dr. Clifford K. Mirikitani, MD, JD & John M. Mirikitani, JD PhD, Outstanding Dissertation Award from the UH Mānoa Graduate Division. Ellis, supported by the Gregory and Lucia Leong Foundation Oceanography Graduate Student … Read More
In the latest ShanghaiRanking 2025 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Oceanography has achieved its strongest performance to date, rising to #5 in the United States and #7 in the world for research … Read More
Assistant Professor of Oceanography Justin Suca and collaborators have published an exciting new study that sheds lights on one of the ocean’s mysterious predators—the cookiecutter shark. The research combines long-term fisheries data with ʻike Hawaiʻi and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi to reveal … Read More
The Department of Oceanography is proud to recognize Dr. Andrea Kealoha and Dr. Nyssa Silbiger for being featured on KITV’s Island News, where they shared their expertise on the urgent state of coral reefs in Hawaiʻi and encouraged restoration efforts … Read More
Early 1967, a World War II seaplane known as Tiare Tahiti lifted off from Honolulu and headed towards a string of remote tropical atolls in the heart of the Pacific. On board, not bombs or troops, but scientists and sensitive … Read More
September 25, 2025 / UH Archives We are happy to share the University Archives release of the Craig R. Smith Papers — now publicly available through the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Catalog for Archival Material, ArchivesSpace. This comprehensive collection … Read More
The American Meteorological Society announced its 2026 Awards and Honors, recognizing outstanding contributions to the weather, water, and climate community by individuals and organizations. Malte Stuecker, associate professor in the Department of Oceanography and director of the International Pacific Research Center, was selected to receive the Clarence … Read More
On Thursday, July 24, 2025, In a thrilling celebration of Shark Week, the Waikīkī Aquarium hosted marine biologist and UH Mānoa – Department of Oceanography graduate student, Aaron Judah, to give a captivating Ocean Talk that plunged attendees into the … Read More
Posted to SOEST News on May 21, 2025 by Marcie Grabowski Ian Chung in Waikiki, O’ahu This past weekend, graduates of the Global Environmental Science (GES) undergraduate program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa took with them a bachelor’s degree and real-world, hands-on … Read More
Posted on UH News on April 17, 2025 When the Kīlauea volcano erupted in May 2018 on Hawaiʻi Island, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly 5 miles high. A new study by an … Read More