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‘Small World Initiative’: Engaging young students in critical research

By Guest PostAugust 13, 2013Education, Scienceeric warrick, jean schmidt, kline biology tower, manoa, neil enis, pilot program, research projects, sachie etherington, small world initiative, stem, tiffany tsang, tulsa community college, university of hawaii, university of pittsburgh, yale campus

Twenty-four faculty members from colleges and universities from around the country left the Yale campus on Aug. 1 with a new mission: to inspire their freshman and sophomore students to pursue scientific research, specifically by discovering new antibiotics from soil bacteria.

In a week-long workshop called “The Small World Initiative” and held at Kline Biology Tower, the teachers developed the tools to engage their students in real-life research projects with such life-saving potential. (more…)

Researchers Share Surprising Discovery about Coral Reef Ecology

By Guest PostSeptember 4, 2012Environment, Natureacidification, algae, algal symbionts, american samoa, climate change, coastal development, coral reef, coral species, coral tissue, david garrison, DNA, ecology, endosymbionts, environment disturbance, environmental change, environmental stress, french polynesia, functional ecosystem, future, generalists, global stressors, hawaii, himb, hollie putnam, host, manoa, moorea, nsf, ocean acidification, photosynthesis, pollution, prediction, reef corals, ruth gates, skeletal growth, skeletons, soest, stresss, symbiodinium, taiwan, temperatures, theory, threat, tissue sample

Researchers at the UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) made a discovery that challenges a major theory in the field of coral reef ecology.

The general assumption has been that the more flexible corals are, regarding which species of single-celled algae (Symbiodinium) they host in coral tissues, the greater ability corals will have to survive environmental stress. In their paper published August 29, 2012, however, scientists at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) at SOEST and colleagues documented that the more flexible corals are, the more sensitive to environment disturbances they are. (more…)

Three Year Investigation of Military Munitions Sea Disposal Site Completed

By Guest PostJuly 28, 2010Environment, Weaponsdeep-water, edgewood chemical biological center, environet, environmental protection, hi-05 project, human health, m47 100-pound bombs, manoa, margo edwards, military, pearl harbor, pisces, risk, sea disposal site, seafloor, soest, tad davis, tnt, university of hawaii, us coastal waters

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) completed a three-year long investigation of Sea Disposal Site Hawaiʻi Number 5 (HI-05), a deep-water military munitions disposal site in U.S. coastal waters approximately 5 miles south of Pearl Harbor, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi.

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‘Small World Initiative’: Engaging young students in critical research

Researchers Share Surprising Discovery about Coral Reef Ecology

Three Year Investigation of Military Munitions Sea Disposal Site Completed