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Ocean Life

Giant clams thrive with Indigenous management in American Sāmoa

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Ocean Life

Anatomy of a phytoplankton bloom revealed north of Hawai‘i

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Monitoring hidden processes beneath Kīlauea could aid eruption forecast

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Ocean engineering students develop custom solution for monitoring Lahaina waters 

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