School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) undergraduate student Peter Felicijan has long been engaged in a variety of academic, athletic, and personal pursuits. From the small farming town of Prosser, Washington, Felicijan was in high school clubs … Read More
Recent GES graduate, Michaela Johnson studied embryonic Siphonaria normalis, which is a native false limpet that is abundant in the rocky intertidal areas around Hawaiʻi. During her project, Johnson discovered that Hawaiʻi’s intertidal waters can sometimes reach temperatures that lead to higher mortality of these animals.
Global Environmental Sciences graduate Tina Huynh-Nguyen researched an invasive species of seaweed…
“Ocean features called surface slicks are an interconnected highway of nursery habitat for more than 100 species of baby fishes, study finds[…] The people of Hawai‘i have long recognized slicks as an important part of the seascape. The traditional Hawaiian … Read More
Dr. Angelicque White, faculty member and Biological Oceanographer, has one of the Most Popular TED Talks of 2020! Check out the talk below.
Oceanographers Richard Zeebe and Joji Uchikawa were recently awarded four grants from the National Science Foundation totaling nearly $1.25 million to study climate change events in the Earth’s history and to better constrain the timing of these phenomena. Click here to learn more.
The largest aggregation of fishes ever recorded in the abyssal deep sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH, USA), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI, USA) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK). … Read More
The sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world’s oceans, including the deepest spot of all: the 36,000-foot-deep Mariana Trench in the northwest Pacific. And most of … Read More