For seminars, recent grants, thesis & dissertation defenses, etc., see the SOEST Bulletin.
Every Thursday evening in January • 6:30 pm
Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve.
UH Sea Grant’s Hanauma Bay Education Program invites the public to learn about the Hawai‘i Ocean Observing System (HiOOS), whose primary objective is to integrate and expand ocean observing and forecasting throughout the Hawaiian Islands, and is a part of a larger effort spanning the Pacific Islands.
This lecture series highlights changes being observed in the ocean and coastline of the Hawaiian Islands and beyond. Visit the Education Center calendar page for details.
C-MORE is pleased to offer an international summer course Microbial Oceanography: Genomes to Biomes. The course will explore the dynamic and fundamental role marine microbes play in shaping ocean ecology and global biogeochemistry.
To apply for the 2009 summer course, please visit the 2009 course web site and follow the links. Application deadline is February 20, 2009.
For more information, download the flyer PDF.
Download a high-resolution (49MB) or low-resolution (6MB) PDF of the new SOEST brochure, providing an excellent overview of the school and its mission.
Through 11 February 2009
6 pm
in the Outrigger Waikiki Hotel’s “Kalakaua Room”
(2335 Kalakaua Ave).
Download the flyer PDF
for details.
Saving Kailua BeachGeology and Geophysics (G&G) department chair Chip Fletcher and UH Sea Grant extension agent Dolan Eversole are working with groups from the Army Corps of Engineers, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, and the Department of Health to get needed permits and clearances to allow sand from Kaelepulu Stream to replenish the rapidly disappearing Kailua Beach, which has seen an acceleration of sand erosion over the last three years. Tiny diamonds implicate comet or meteor in mass extinctionsIn a recent article in the journal Science, a team of scientists link the well-documented sudden global cooling almost 13,000 years ago with one or more comets or meteors they propose exploded over North America, causing changes in climate patterns that drove dozens of mammal species into extinction. “They have a hypothesis that explains several things that hard to explain any other way,” said HIGP researcher Gary Huss, an early reviewer of the paper. “Diamonds are less convincing by themselves, but they strengthen their case considerably.” Looking for extraterrestrial life in all the right placesAssociate professor Eric Gaidos of the department of Geology and Geophysics (G&G) is part of a team exploring the possibility of finding water on “super-Earths“ in orbit around distant stars. The planets they are investigating — giant worlds made of rock and ice that astronomers have detected on the outskirts of faraway solar systems — are thought to be quite plentiful, and models indicate that some of them could have liquid water on or beneath the surface, making some form of life a possibility. Lifecycles of real tropical cyclones successfully predictedA team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), the Japan-Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), and the University of Tokyo analyzed initial results from the Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM), the first global model that simulates individual cloud systems. Starting with the atmospheric conditions 1-2 weeks before two previously observed cyclones formed, the model was successful in accurately modeling their formation and subsequent evolution. Published in Geophysical Research Letters, the study was selected by the journal editors as a research highlight. Three Top-Ten Rankings for SOEST ProgramsThree SOEST programs: Oceanography, Physical Sciences (2nd), Marine Science (4th), and Geophysics (7th) continue in good company in the Academic Analytics FSP Index for Top Performing Individual Programs 2006-2007. For more news, visit our News and Awards & Honors pages, and read the weekly SOEST Bulletin. | ||
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