“How to launch a 13-ton submarine, Part 2” | UnderH2O

In part two of the two-part episode of UnderH2O about the submersible operation at the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Lab (HURL), we observe the launch and recovery of the Pisces V submersible from the recently-restored LRT (Launch, Recovery, and Transport) Platform — a marvel of undersea technology.

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Updates

• A new link to the video of the IPCC briefing at the Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) Hale was added to the archived news item “Fifth IPCC Climate Assessment Report at UH” on 10-14-13.

Wave buoy will impact surf forecasts, maritime transit

Hawai‘i now has new ocean and coastal data available to inform weather forecasts and enable safer, more efficient marine transportation. On 02 October 2013, the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), with support from Young Brothers, deployed a bright yellow wave buoy about three nautical miles off the north shore of Kaua‘i. “Data are updated every 30 minutes and broadcast on the National Weather Service’s Marine Weather Channel,”explains PacIOOS director Heather Kerkering. The buoy joins PacIOOS’ existing network of eleven real-time wave buoys in Hawai‘i, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Marshall Islands.

Read more about it in UH System News. Image courtesy of PacIOOS.

Tropics will be the first hit hard by global warming

Ecological and societal disruptions by modern climate change are critically determined by the time frame over which climates shift. Dept of Geography assistant professor Camilo Mora and colleagues, including those at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and the Dept of Oceanography, have developed one such time frame. The study, entitled “The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability,” was published in the journal Nature and provides an index of the year when the mean climate of any given location on Earth will shift continuously outside the most extreme records experienced in the past 150 years.

Read about in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, Nature World News, PBS News Hour, UH System News, and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (subscription required); read more about it and watch the video at Hawaii News Now. Image courtesy C. Mora; click on it to go to the full version.

Extrusive volcanism formed Hawaiian Islands

A recent study by researchers at SOEST and the University of Rhode Island (URI) changes the understanding of how the Hawaiian Islands formed, determining that it is the eruptions of lava on the surface called “extrusion” that grow Hawaiian volcanoes, rather than internal emplacement of magma, as was previously thought. Authors of the paper in Geophysical Research Letters include Ashton F. Flinders (MS in Geophysics from UHM, now at the University of Rhode Island); Garrett Ito, Michael O. Garcia, John M. Sinton (all of G&G), and Dean of SOEST Brian Taylor; and Jim Kauahikaua of the USGS Hawai‘i Volcano Observatory (HVO).

Read more about it in the UH System News, the Huffington Post, PhysOrg, and the Hawaii Tribune-Herald. Image courtesy of UH Mānoa.

Hurricane season is 01 June thru 30 November 2013

The 2013 hurricane season begins on 01 June and ends on 30 November. To help you prepare for hurricanes (and other natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunami, and floods from other causes), the UH Sea Grant College Program’s Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards is available as a PDF or printed book. Keep track of weather conditions at the Hawai‘i Beach Hazard Forecast Site, the Meteorology Weather Server, and the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System.

Please visit SOEST in the News: 2013 for archived news articles, with links to previous years.

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