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  • MTS-Sponsored Seminar: Natural Hybrid Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience in the Pacific

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    This seminar is sponsored by our Marine Technology Society Student Section! Michael Foley, Ph.D., P.E. Senior Coastal Engineer - EA Engineering, Science and Technology *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (2/4) @ 11:59 pm HST Coastal communities are facing accelerating hazards that threaten public spaces, roadways, utilities, homes, and businesses. Traditional development strategies such as hardened shorelines, graded coastal plains, and armored channels often fail to capture the value provided by natural systems. Drawing on 20 years of experience addressing coastal hazard risks in Hawaiʻi, Dr. Foley will discuss the importance of a

  • Seminar: All Aboard the R/V Kilo Moana: An Oceanographic Research Cruise Experience

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    Kaja Reinhardt, MS Student The MILLO Group, Ocean and Resources Engineering *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (2/11) @ 11:59 pm HST Let me take you aboard the R/V Kilo Moana for a 12-day oceanographic cruise in the North Pacific Ocean. Departing from Honolulu Harbor, the crew and science team led by Chief Scientist Dr. Oscar Sosa traveled nearly 400 miles north of Oʻahu before completing a transect back toward the Hawaiian island, sampling at multiple stations along the way. The goal of this project was to understand the coupling between nutrient limitation and

  • Seminar: Study of Traditional Seawalls

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    Ned Samson Ph.D. Candidate, Ocean and Resources Engineering *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (2/18) @ 11:59 pm HST Hunting has been facilitated by strategies to circumvent animals’ evasive maneuvers, for example by camouflage, ambush, and the use of traps. In addition to inland fish weirs, coastal enclosures imitating shallow tropical lagoons were built by Pacific engineers throughout the centuries. Along with harbors, these ancient structures are the most successful, durable examples of coastal engineering. It is interesting to speculate that these engineers understood and harnessed the secondary undulations of tides on the

  • Seminar: The Importance of Reshaping AI to Serve Ocean Conservation Communities

    Filippo Varini Head of AI, WildHackers *Online ONLY* Zoom link Meeting ID: 896 2570 6844 Passcode: ORE Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly in ocean science, yet the local communities working daily to protect our marine ecosystems often operate under very different constraints, priorities and values. A significant gap remains between technological innovation and conservation practice. In this talk, I argue for the importance of reshaping AI to truly serve ocean conservation communities. Drawing from my experience deploying AI tools for ocean conservation, from deep-sea biodiversity monitoring to shark conservation, I will share lessons I drew from the field on what

  • MTS-Sponsored Seminar: Intellectual Anarchy – Connecting Big Science to Society

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    This seminar is sponsored by our Marine Technology Society Student Section! Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan Founder & CEO of Oceanit *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (3/4) @ 11:59 pm HST This talk will review what is done at Oceanit to illustrate how the company drives fundamental science into products and systems to impact humans, society, and the economic consequences therin, such as economic growth. In this review, recent projects and coastal programs at Oceanit across Hawaii will be discussed in detail. Seminar flyer

  • MTS-Sponsored Seminar: Spice, Stratification and Sound: Observations of Fine-Scale Upper Ocean Variability

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    This seminar is sponsored by our Marine Technology Society Student Section! Alejandra "Ale" Sanchez-rios Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography, SOEST *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (3/25) @ 11:59 pm HST Temperature and salinity (T–S) can vary strongly along density surfaces in the upper ocean, a quantity known as spice, without directly modifying stratification. This density-compensated variability does not directly drive dynamics, yet plays an important role in water mass characterization, tracer transport, and the evolution of upper-ocean structure. In regions influenced by fronts, river discharge, or strong surface forcing, spice

  • POSTPONED Seminar: Makai Ocean Engineering: An update on current projects and future vision.

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    SEMINAR POSTPONED, DATE TBD                 Greg Rocheleau CEO/President, Makai Ocean Engineering Inc. *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (4/8) @ 11:59 pm HST For over 50 years, Makai Ocean Engineering has been a global leader in providing innovative subsea engineering solutions. This seminar provides an overview of Makai’s current portfolio and its strategic vision. As a Hawaii-based firm with national and international clients, Makai often sits at the intersection of the global marine economy. Current initiatives highlight Makai’s expertise. Makai continues to excel in the market with

  • Seminar: Distributed Acoustic Sensing – From Interrogators to Environmental Monitoring

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    Will Redford Post-Bac at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) / ORE Graduate Student *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Friday (4/10) @ 11:59 pm HST Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a fiber optic sensing technique that typically utilizes light pulses and Rayleigh backscattering/OTDR to detect longitudinal strain temporally and spatially. The output is inherently noisy but also can have high spatial resolution, which presents uniquely challenging but valuable acoustic data. While working at Los Alamos National Laboratory I was part of a few projects that utilized DAS, one of which looked at comparing interrogator

  • Seminar: Science Communication Presentations

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    ORE Students *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (4/15) @ 11:59 pm HST “Study of Traditional Seawalls” Edward Whitworth Samson (Ned), PhD Candidate, ORE “Mapping the Freshwater/Saltwater Mixing Zone” Kaja Reinhardt, MS Student, ORE “Beach Memory in Waikīkī, Hawaiʻi” Lydia Rice, Graduate Assistant, ORE “How Nature Solves Problems Better Than We Do” Olivia DeCroix, MS Student, ORE Seminar flyer

  • Seminar: Science Communication Presentations

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    ORE Students *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (4/22) @ 11:59 pm HST "What I do in my PhD" Clara Vanessa Encke, PhD Student, ORE "The Physics of Waves and Surfing" Kade Jimenez, PhD Student in ORE "Understanding Complex Systems Using Limited Information" Maliheh Gholizadeh Sarvandi, MS Student, ORE Seminar flyer

  • MS Plan A Defense: Modeling Nearshore Hydrodynamic Processes in a Reef System with a Rip Channel: Evaluating XBeach Model Performance

    POST 418 1000 Pope Road, Room 418, Honolulu, HI, United States

    Xinyi Zhang Master’s Student Department of Ocean and Research Engineering University of Hawaii at Manoa **This defense will be held in person (POST 418) and over Zoom** Meeting ID: 859 1029 7666 Password: XinyiMS https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/85910297666 Coastal hydrodynamics in reef–lagoon–channel systems are controlled by complex interactions among wave transformation, breaking, and circulation. Although previous numerical studies have advanced process-based understanding, a systematic evaluation of XBeach for such systems remains limited. This study assesses the capability of XBeach to simulate hydrodynamics in an idealized reef system with a rip channel, using large-scale laboratory datasets under irregular wave conditions. The analysis evaluates the

  • Seminar: Modular On-Site eDNA Enrichment (eDNA MODE): An Autonomous Sampling System for Active Environments

    POST 723 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI, United States

    Austin Fisher, Walid Hassan, Olivia Holbrook, William Redford ORE653: Ocean Instrumentation and Technology *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Friday (4/29) @ 11:59 pm HST Environmental DNA (eDNA) samplers are in situ, autonomous water filtration systems that are designed to collect genetic material within the water column, enabling species detection in the lab. While there are over 20 eDNA samplers currently available, none offer a combination of high filtration rate, robust housing, self-preserving technology, and the capacity to collect replicate samples. We will present the design of the eDNA MODE (Modular On-site DNA Enrichment), an