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May 05: Meteorite may help reveal early conditions on Mars
Publishing in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, HIGP researcher Jeff Taylor, Astrobiology post-doctoral fellow Lydia Hallis, and colleagues, report on a tennis ball-sized meteorite that formed on Mars more than a billion years ago. Lead author Julie Stopar (Arizona State University) is a former SOEST graduate student and earned her M.S. degree with Jeff Taylor. They report on chemical alteration in the Martian meteorite, and present criteria to distinguish between weathering that occurred on Mars from weathering that happened after the rock landed in Antarctica. Also on the paper are Michael Velbel (Michigan State University), Marc Norman (Australian National University), and Edward Vicenzi (Smithsonian Institution).
Read more about it in MSU Today. Image courtesy of Julie D. Stopar, et al; click on it to see the full version.
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Apr 26: Congratulations: HIMB students win Tester Awards!
Matthew Iacchei, Jonathan Whitney, and Nyssa Silbiger won the Best Presentation, Keisha Rodriguez won Best Poster, and Jamie Sziklay won Best Rapid Fire Presentation at the 38th Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium on 19 April 2013.
Please see the flyer PDF for more information about the winners and their presentations.
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Apr 25: Less rainfall expected for the Hawaiian Islands
Almost imperceptibly, rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since 1978, and this trend is likely to continue with global warming through the end of this century, according to a team of scientists lead by International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) assistant researcher Oliver Elison Timm with colleagues at UH Mānoa and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The study says wetter areas like Windward O‘ahu would not be affected as much as drier areas; overall, around a third of the state will have a higher frequency of dry months. The study appeared in the online issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Read more about it and see the video at KITV.com; read more about it in UH System News, Raising Islands (both added 05-0-13), Science Codex, PlanetSave, Science 2.0, Summit County Citizen’s Voice, UPI.com, and RedOrbit. Image courtesy of UH Mānoa; click on it to see the full version.
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Apr 23: Investigating rainfall changes due to global warming
Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms — “wet-gets-wetter” and “warmer-gets-wetter” — will impact rainfall. According to Meteorology professor and IPRC researcher Shang-Ping Xie (on leave as the Roger Revelle Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing the two mechanisms complement each other, together shaping the spatial distribution of seasonal rainfall in the tropics. Their findings were published in an online issue of Nature Geoscience.
Read more about it in the UH System News, Asian Scientist, ClimateWire (PDF), PhysOrg, Science Daily, and the Summit County Citizen’s Voice. Image courtesy of P. Huang.
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Apr 19: Occurrence of white sharks in Hawaiian waters
A study by Oceanography researcher Kevin Weng and Randy Honebrink of the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) sheds new light on the rare observance of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the waters surrounding Hawai‘i. A relatively few animals travel from population centers off California and Mexico. Males tend to come between December and June, while females are seen throughout the year. The study also suggests a method to help distinguish between white sharks and closely related species such as makos; it was published in the Journal of Marine Biology.
Read more about it and see the video at KITV.com; read more about it in the UH System News, Hawaii 24/7 (including a map of sighting locations), Science Daily, Honolulu Civil Beat, The Garden Island, and UPI.com. Image courtesy of K. Weng.
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Apr 18: “Volcanic asteroids: What we dd, and did not, learn from Vesta”
Lionel Wilson
Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University
Tuesday 12 April • 7:30 pm
NASA Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center (PRPDC) POST 544, UH Mānoa
This special FREE lecture was open to the public. See the flyer PDF for more information.
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Apr 16: Vog forecast website in limbo after funding ends
When a vent opened at Kīlauea Volcano’s Halemaumau Crater on Hawai‘i Island in 2008, Steven Businger, professor of Meteorology, said he felt a need to start a public vog forecast model to provide information for the public including those with asthma or other respiratory problems. Initial funding was through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) resulted in the development of the Vog Measurement and Prediction Project (VMAP), but
soon ended. Since then, the program has depended on volunteers, but Businger said the program just got support from the university to hire a graduate student for the next two years. However, without steady funding, he said the program could come to an end at any time.
Read more about it and watch the video at KITV.com; visit VMAP here. Read about the negative impact of vog on Hawai‘i Island air quality in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Image courtesy of Mila Zinkova.
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Apr 15: HSFL plays vital role in Hawai‘i’s first space launch
The Hawai‘i Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) is leading the way in a historic effort: the first ever space launch from the 50th state. When the Super Strypi missile is launched in October 2013, it will be the culmination of the efforts of faculty and students from UHM, Kaua‘i Community College (KCC) and Honolulu Community College (HCC).
UH President M.R.C. Greenwood said, “The work on this mission is creating invaluable workforce development opportunities and training for students across the University of Hawai‘i System. In addition, UH is helping to develop Hawai‘i’s space science enterprise.”
Read more about it at Civil Beat, hawaiireporter.com, SFGate.com, UH System News, and Space.com; also, read more about it and watch the videos at KHON2.com and UH System. Image courtesy of UH News.
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Apr 12: New study reconciles land and sea carbon records
Geology & Geophysics (G&G) professor Hope Jahren and University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) assistant professor Brian Schubert have determined how to resolve an inconsistency in carbon cycling activity records. The geologic markers for historic disruptions in carbon cycling activity—recorded as carbon isotope excursions or CIE—tend to be much larger in terrestrial rocks than those recorded in marine rocks during the same time periods. They developed their model based on research conducted while Schubert was a postdoctoral fellow at UH Mānoa, and published their findings Nature Communications.
Read more about it in UH System News and at Raising Islands. Image courtesy of SOEST/G&G.
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Apr 11: seaHarmony is live!
COSEE Island Earth is pleased to announce the public launch of seaHarmony, an online collaboration tool that matches ocean science researchers with educators, managers, and traditional practitioners in Hawaii based on compatibility and collaboration preferences. Scientist seeking a community partner? Educator looking to invite a scientist to your classroom? Traditional practitioner searching for a research collaborator? Resource managers wanting to connect with community organizations? All of the above? This site is for you!
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SOEST, HIMB, and COSEE-IE presented awards to students with outstanding projects at the 56th Hawai‘i State Science and Engineering Fair on April 8-9. Please see the flyer PDF for a list of the winners and information about their presentations.
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Wednesday 17 April 2013 •
12:30–4:30 pm
UH Mānoa Campus, POST 723
This nationwide screening of “The Island President”, a movie focused around politics and climate change, was shown in celebration of Earth Week. SOEST Associate Dean and GG Professor Chip Fletcher provided an introduction entitled, “The ABCs of Sea Level Rise.” The film was followed by a national webinar discussion. Please see the press release for more information.
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Apr 02: Monsoon intensification attributed to east Pacific cooling
An international team of scientists led by Meteorology Professor Bin Wang at the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), found that most of the recent intensification in monsoon circulation during the past 30 years, is attributable to a cooling of the eastern Pacific that began in 1998. This cooling is the result of natural long-term swings in ocean surface temperatures, particularly swings in the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation or mega-El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which has lately been in a mega-La Niña or cool phase.
Wang and colleagues published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Read more about it in the New York Times Blog and the IPRC press release. Image courtesy of Owen Shieh/IPRC. |
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Apr 01: Dr. Klaus Wyrtki Symposium
A special symposium on the late University of Hawai‘i Professor of Oceanography, Dr. Wyrtki, will take place on Monday, April 8, opening with a reception from 5:00pm, and continue through April 9. The symposium will present a prestigious line-up of scholars and experts in the fields of Oceanography and Meteorology to honor Dr. Wyrtki and his scientific and educational legacy. For more information, visit the website. |
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Mar 21: Marlin J. Atkinson
Marlin Atkinson died in the evening of 18 February 2013 shortly after hosting one of his famous “cook-outs” for a number of visiting colleagues. He was a Professor in Oceanography. His colleagues have said of him, “Marlin had a number of talents, but his greatest gift by far was his ability to see through the complexity of natural systems and ‘get to the heart of the problem.’ One of the things he most often said, with a raised brow and slightly impish smile, was that ‘life is meant to be savoured.’” He was 61. |
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Mar 20: UHAA Distinguished Alumni Award
Congratulations to Patrick Sullivan, PhD (ORE MS ’81, ORE PhD ’85), Chairman & Founder, Oceanit!
The UHAA Distinguished Alumni Awards pay tribute to those alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their professions and community, committed themselves to advancing the values and goals of the University of Hawai‘i and ensuring improvement in the quality of life for future generations. |
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Mar 13: Hawai‘i Ocean Time-series Program reaches milestone
On March 9, 2013, the UH research vessel Kilo Moana returned from the 250th scientific expedition of the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) program after nearly 25 years of approximately monthly research cruises to observe and interpret habitat variability and to track climate impacts on Hawaii's marine ecosystem. "It is really satisfying to reach this milestone, and to see the growing importance of the HOT program accomplishment,." said David Karl, Oceanography Professor and Director of (C-MORE). "Each additional year of observations brings us closer to a fundamental understanding of how the ocean functions, and its relationships to climate."
Read more about it on KHON2.com or on the Press Release. Image courtesy of Paul Lethaby/ HOT. |
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Mar 12: CIMES: Helping meet the challenges of Arctic ice
A three-pound unmanned aircraft can help a 16,000-ton US Coast Guard icebreaker and a 1.5 million gallon-capacity oil tanker rescue an ice-locked Alaska town. In January 2012, researchers from the Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES) helped the Coast Guard locate a safe spot for the Russian tanker Renda to anchor and run hoses across the expanse of shifting, jagged ice between the tanker and shore, providing much-needed heating oil, diesel fuel, and gasoline to the residents of Nome. Since then, CIMES and the Coast Guard have expanded their efforts related to the hazards of Arctic ice.
Read more about it in FirstResponder.gov; read about the team’s DHS S&T Impact Award. Image courtesy of US Coast Guard. |
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Mar 11: Pago Bay, Guam, data being kept, evaluated
Since July 2012, the University of Guam Sea Grant Program has been collaborating with the Pacific Island Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) to monitor water quality conditions at Pago Bay. Because of a fish kill in the Fall of 2012, there was an increase in community concern about water quality of the bay. As the data continues to be collected, processed and interpreted, it will allow the community to better understand the cycles and changes of water conditions at Pago Bay, and to assess the effects of conservation and restoration actions that could be implemented to improve the health of the bay.
Read more about it in the Guam Pacific Daily News; also, visit the PacIOOS data archive for this sensor. Image courtesy of PacIOOS Voyager. |
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Mar 10: UH Marine Operations presents new website
For information on the UH research vessels — including the R/V Kilo Moana and the R/V Ka‘imikai-O-Kanaloa — facilities & operations, cruise planning, underwater vehicles, and links to marine research groups and projects, please visit the new UH Marine Operations web site. |
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Mar 08: Special Lecture: “What has the collisional history of the terrestrial planets to do with the origin and evolution of life?”
Prof. Dr. Dieter Stoeffler
Humboldt University of Berlin
Tuesday 12 March • 7:30 pm
NASA Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center (PRPDC) POST 544, UH Mānoa
This special FREE lecture was open to the public.
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Dr. William Chameides
Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Monday 11 March • 7:30 pm
Art Bldg Auditorium, UH Mānoa
The 2013 IPRC Public Lecture in Climate Science. This special FREE lecture was open to the public. For more information please download the flyer PDF.
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Feb 29: Maui High team wins Aloha Bowl 2013
Congratulations to the Maui High School students who won the Aloha Bowl, the 11th annual regional competition for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NSOB), on Saturday 23 February! They will represent Hawai‘i in April at the 16th annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl in Milwaukee, WI. Members of the winning team include Steven Okada (team captain), Bryson Galapon, Gabriel Salazar, Christopher Kim, and Riley Camp. Ed Ginoza, retired science teacher, coached the team. This is Maui High’s sixth win in eleven years. Among 13 teams, O‘ahu’s Punahou School took second and Hawai‘i Island’s Waiakea High School Team B was awarded third.
Read more about it in the Honolulu Civil Beat, UH Mānoa News, and the Maui TV News. Listen to the interview with Steven Okada on HPR's "The Conversation" recorded on 4 March 2013. Image courtesy of SOEST; click on it to open a larger version.
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Feb 28: Great white sharks in Hawai‘i? More likely than you think
Great white shark sightings have always been rare in Hawai‘i. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed only eight sightings in a period of 60 years. However, satellite tags installed by scientists on the backs of great white sharks to track their movements show some are regular visitors as they move between the West Coast of North America and the Hawaiian Islands. Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) researcher Kim Holland noted, “Even though, scientifically, we know white sharks do visit Hawaiian waters, they don’t typically put themselves in shallow waters where people see them.”
Read more about it in the Honolulu Magazine. Image courtesy of Thinkstock.
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Feb 25: Four major UH facilities named to honor Inouye legacy
It's important to name buildings after the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye so people will remember who he was and what he means for the future, U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa said Friday as the University of Hawai‘i put the late senator's name on four buildings and programs. Inouye's name will go on the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) headquarters on the Mānoa campus, the College of Pharmacy at UH Hilo, a health center for dental hygiene and dental assistant programs at Maui College, and a Kauai Community College (KCC) electronics technology building.
Read more about it and watch the video at UH System News and on the UH Hilo Chancellor’s Blog; read more about it at UH System News, KHON2 and The Garden Isle. Image courtesy of the United States Senate.
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Feb 22: Are shark attacks on the rise?
A spike in the number of unprovoked shark attacks in Hawai‘i in 2012 — nine, rather the usual three or four per year — was just by chance, considering the “millions and millions of hours” people spend in the water and the very low number of attacks, according to Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) assistant researcher Carl Meyer, who has studied tiger sharks for 20 years. Tiger sharks were thought to be territorial, but tagging data showed that they in fact quickly roam over very large areas. Because culling (hunting and killing sharks in the immediate area after an attack) is unlikely to catch the attacking animal, it was discontinued.
Watch the video at Time.com. Image courtesy of Time.
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Terry Kirby
Operations Director and
Chief Submersible Pilot,
Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL)
Thursday 28 February
Refreshments at 6:30 pm •
Program at 7:00 pm
11 Arizona Memorial Drive,
Honolulu, HI 96818
Attendees learned about how the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Lab discovered three out of the five Japanese submarines returned to Pearl Harbor after Japan's surrender.This FREE lecture was open
to the public.
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Scott Rowland
Geology & Geophysics (G&G)
Tue 26 Feb • 7:30 pm
NASA Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center (PRPDC),
POST 544, UH Mānoa
This FREE lecture wass open to the public.
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Feb 19: Infrasound study of 15 February 2013 Russian meteor
Milton Garces, Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) associate researcher and director of the University of Hawai'i Infrasound Laboratory (ISLA), is posting emerging analyses of the 15 February 2013 meteor blast above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shock wave, resulting from the break-up of the meteor, smashed windows and collapsed roofs, injuring an estimated 1,200 people in this city of 1.1 million people. Although the low-frequency sound waves from the event cannot be heard with the human ear, 11 infrasound stations detected it. Follow Garces’ posts about the blast — one of the loudest, deepest exploding meteor sounds ever recorded — in Twitter under @isoundhunter and in the blog Infrasound Huntress.
Read more about it in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (subscription required) and at HIGP, and see the video at KITV4. Image courtesy of Milton Garces; click on it to go to the posting.
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Feb 19: Klaus Wyrtki • 1925–2013
SOEST Oceanography Professor Emeritus
Download the obituary PDF here.
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Feb 15: Microbe may be elevated to symbol of Hawai‘i
Flavobacterium akiainvivens might join the list of Hawai‘i state symbols if a recommendation by the state House Committee on Veterans, Military, and International Affairs and Culture and the Arts becomes law. House Rep. James Kunane Tokioka, who represents southeastern Kaua‘i, introduced House Bill 293, which calls for establishing and designating the microbe, found only on ‘akia (a flowering shrub endemic to Hawai‘i) as the official state microbe — the first in the country. It was discovered and named by a 2012 Iolani School graduate, Iris Kuo, in collaboration with a team of UH scientists that included Stephanie Christensen from Oceanography.
Read more about it in The Maui News.
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Feb 13: Congratulations, Shimi Rii and Alice Colman!
The Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) is pleased to announce the awardees of the inaugural Denise B. Evans Fellowships in Oceanographic Research: Shimi Rii from C-MORE (left) and Alice Colman from G&G (right). Rii, a graduate student with Matthew Church, is researching the role of gradients in controlling plankton community structure. Coleman, a graduate student with John Sinton, is researching the effects of the rate of magma supply on mid-ocean ridge volcanic eruptions and magmatic systems. Congratulations!
Read more about it in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, on the HIGP home page and in the UH News, and see the award photo gallery. Photo courtesy UH Foundation; click on it to learn more about the Fellowships.
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Feb 07: Ocean FEST and TECH — FREE event for middle, high school students
Are you a middle school or high school student interested in learning about careers in the ocean, earth and environmental sciences? C-MORE invites you and your family to attend a FREE hands-on Ocean FEST and TECH (PDF) event at the Mānoa Experience on Saturday 23 Feb.
For more information please see the flyer PDF. Space is limited, so please register soon!
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Feb 05: Global warming: greenhouse gases vs solar heating
Examining global precipitation changes over the last millennium and projections to the end of the 21st century in computer climate simulations, a team of scientists led by Jian Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS) and Bin Wang (IPRC researcher and Meteorology department chair), report in the journal Nature that global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns differently from warming from solar heating. For example, global rainfall has increased less over the present-day warming period than it did during the Medieval Warm Period, even though temperatures are higher today.
Read more about in UH Mānoa News, EurekAlert!, RedOrbit, and AccuWeather; read the Nature abstract. Image courtesy of Shang-Ping Xie, SOEST.
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Charles “Chip” Fletcher, professor of Geology & Geophysics and SOEST’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, joined a discussion led by host Dan Boylan on PBS Hawaii’s INSIGHTS on Thursday 14 February at 8 pm to discuss the latest on climate change.
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Feb 02: HIMB coral video wins NSF/Science award
Congratulations! The 2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge Honorable Mention for Video goes to Christine Farrar, Zac Forsman, Ruth Gates, Jo-Ann Leong, and Robert Toonen, all at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), for their video “Observing the coral symbiome using laser scanning confocal microscopy.” Without using dyes, images of the fluorescence by molecules in living corals and their symbiotic red algae under different wavelengths of light were captured by a confocal microscope and compiled into three-dimensional, time-lapse animations.
Read more about it at the NSF and Science news sites, and in the Guardian, NBC’s CosmicLog, UH Mānoa News, and Dive Professionals.org. Image courtesy of HIMB; click on it to go to our videos page.
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Feb 01: Congratulations, Penny Chisholm!
Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) Co-PI Sallie “Penny” Chisholm received the National Medal of Science at a ceremony on Friday 01 February 2013 at the White House (watch the video here; Penny is at 11:01).
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Feb 01: First climate change textbook for college students
Charles “Chip” Fletcher, professor of Geology & Geophysics and SOEST’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, has released the first edition of Climate Change: What the Science Tells Us (published by J. Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ). Fletcher offers the first real textbook to present the science surrounding climate change at the right level for an undergraduate student. “Our climate is changing NOW in rapid and dangerous ways. But by and large, we are not teaching the current generation of students about the reality of this phenomenon,” stated Fletcher. “Without this knowledge, our ability to manage the impacts of a changing climate is limited.”
Read more about it at EurekAlert! and UH Mānoa News. Image courtesy of J. Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ.
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“The no longer lonely planet: mixing it up for the Mars menu”
Kim Binsted, PhD student in the Geology & Geophysics and associate professor in Information and Computer Sciences, UH Manoa, is a member of the HI-SEAS Research Team. Listen to the interview with her on HPR’s “The Conversation” recorded on 29 January 2013. Read more about the Hi-SEAS recipe contest at UH Mānoa News.
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Jan 28: Studying deep-sea nutrients with new instrumentation
The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) has been making near-monthly observations on ocean climate and biogeochemistry for nearly 25 years, and will soon celebrate its 250th cruise to its ocean outpost Station ALOHA, located approximately 100 km North of O‘ahu. This long-term effort has resulted in one of the world’s only, and most valuable, records for documenting climate-linked environmental change in the open ocean. Among the many findings are changes in ocean nutrient and carbon pools at episodic, seasonal, and sub-decadal time scales — changes closely linked to hydrographic variability, including climate-sensitive processes. Through its history, HOT has also been at the forefront of implementation, testing, and validation of new analytical methodologies and field and laboratory instrumentation.
Read more about at AZoSensors.com and at the HOT web site. Image courtesy of HOT/SOEST.
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Jan 27: Hurricane sound waves could aid forecasting
Hurricanes generate sound waves detectable through the air thousands of miles away, which could be a good way to measure the wave conditions near these storms, a new study suggests. In principle, listening to these very low signals can help researchers continuously monitor ocean wave activity and track marine storms. “The strongest infrasound signals come from the storm center, which is the most dangerous portion of the hurricane,” said Ocean and Resources Engineering (ORE) PhD student Justin Stopa, lead author of the paper in JGR: Oceans, with co-authors Kwok Fai Cheung, Milton A. Garcés, and Nickles Badger.
Read more about it in Our Amazing Planet. Image courtesy of NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Jan 25: Partnership awards $1 million in coastal hazard grants
One million dollars in coastal hazard research and education grant money is being awarded to coastal communities throughout the US-affiliated Pacific Islands region to help plan for, respond to, and recover from coastal hazards such as storms. This funding opportunity is made possible through a partnership between the UH Sea Grant College Program and the Coastal Storms Program (CSP) of the Coastal Services Center (CSC), a unit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Read more about it in Hawaii Reporter and the UH Sea Grant NOAA CSP page. Image courtesy of Steven Businger.
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Jan 24: Breakthrough predicting E. Asia summer monsoon rain
A team of scientists led by Bin Wang, International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) researcher and Department of Meteorology chair, has made a breakthrough for the spring prediction of both the summer monsoon rainfall over East Asia and the tropical storm activity near East Asian coastal areas. These two weather phenomena are controlled by fluctuations in the Western Pacific Subtropical High, a major atmospheric circulation system centered over the Philippine Sea. The study was published online on in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences.
Read more about it in the Hawaii Reporter, Environmental News Network, UPI.com, the UH Mānoa News, and in the IPRC press release (PDF). Image courtesy of UH Institute for Astronomy.
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This special supplement to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser showcases the new UH Innovation Initiative — HI2 — and highlights several units and programs of the School, including the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, the Hawai‘i Space Flight Laboratory, the Hawai‘i Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, the UH Sea Grant College Program, the Vog Measurement and Prediction project, sea level and climate change research, the Hawai‘i beach safety web site, the International Pacific Research Center, and more.
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Jan 21: Fridge, other tsunami debris wash ashore in Hawai‘i
The Japanese government has estimated that the March 2011 tsunami, which was triggered by an underwater earthquake, swept about five million tons of wreckage out to sea. While 70 percent appears to have sunk offshore, the rest is floating in the Pacific Ocean. Wind acts on similar objects in similar ways, according to research by Nikolai Maximenko of the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), so while all of the tsunami debris went into the ocean at the same time, some objects drift across the Pacific faster than others. That results in clusters of similar objects showing up in at the same time.
Read more about it in Live Science; see a KITV4 video and slide show (bottom of the page) of tsunami debris in the Huffington Post. Image courtesy of Nicholas Mallos, Ocean Conservancy.
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Jan 17: Sylvia Earle and need for manned ocean exploration
“Legendary explorer and oceanographer Sylvia Earle is saying goodbye to the ocean floor, but are machines good enough to take her place?” Tony Dokoupil reports in Newsweek on Earle’s last dive with the Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) and its two manned submersibles: Pisces IV and Pisces V. The article joins Earle and the submersibles’ crews as they explore the unique environment of the deep sea floor around Hawai‘i. In video of the submersibles in action on their last dive on 15 December 2012, Earle passionately explains why we still need manned ocean exploration. Chris Kelly, HURL program biologist, is also highlighted.
Read more about it in Newsweek. Image courtesy of HURL.
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Patricia Doyle
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics
and Planetology (HIGP)
Tue 22 Jan • 7:30 pm
NASA Pacific Regional Planetary Data Center (PRPDC),
POST 544, UH Mānoa
This FREE lecture was open to the public.
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Wednesday 16 January 2013 • 5–6 pm
Listen at 760 AM on your radio or streaming live at www.hawaiistomorrow.com
Please join Carlie Wiener, COSEE Island Earth program manager, as she hosts her talk radio show “Hawai‘i’s Tomorrow”. Read more about this month’s show on SOEST’s Facebook page.
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C-MORE PI and director Dave Karl is the 2013 recipient of the National Academy of Science’s Alexander Agassiz Medal for his “acknowledged leadership in establishing multidisciplinary ocean-observing systems, for detection of decadal regime shifts in pelagic ecosystems, and for paradigm-shifting insights on biogeochemical cycles in the ocean.” (C-MORE Co-PI Penny Chisholm was the 2010 recipient.)
UH Oceanography chair Kelvin Richards notes that, “This a very prestigious award made every three years … established by Sir John Murray in honor of his friend Alexander Agassiz. Dave joins the ranks of illustrious past recipients who include Bjerknes, Bigelow, Sverdrup, Stommel, and our very own Klaus Wyrtki.”
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Jan 07: Anonymous gift funds chair in microbial oceanography
An inspired anonymous donor has made one of the largest gift commitments to the University of Hawai‘i by a private individual to benefit UH students and research. Included in the $9.2 million gift are funds for a chair in microbial oceanography. “This gift will be used by a team of scientists at UH and the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education (C-MORE) to promote our research and education missions,” said C-MORE director and professor of oceanography David Karl. “In addition to doing pioneering, frontline research and microbial oceanography, our Center has developed innovative tools and techniques for educating the public at large.”
Read more about it in the UH News and in the UH Foundation press release. Image courtesy of C-MORE.
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