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Hanauma Bay Lecture Series

Hurricanes in Hawai‘i:
How susceptible are we?

Tom Schroeder

Chair, Dept of Meteorology & Director, Joint Inst. of Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)

Thursday 07 May • 6:30 pm
Hanauma Bay Education Cntr

FREE public lectures highlight threats from hurricanes,
tsunamis and other natural hazards every Thursday in May at the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve. Every participant will receive a free copy of the UH Sea Grant College Program’s recent publication Homeowner’s Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards.

For more info visit the Hanauma Bay Education Program.

Special Public Lecture

What should we do about fossil fuel CO₂?

Wallace S. Broecker

Newberry Professor of Geology
Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia Univ.

Thursday 07 May • 7 pm
Architecture Auditorium 205

A Fellow of the National Academy of Science and Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Broecker is one of the most prominent climate scientists in the world. He has focused on the ocean’s role in controlling Earth’s climate and has recently turned his attention to action that needs to be taken to counter climate change.

For more information download the flyer PDF.

Spring 2009 C-MORE Scholars Symposium

Friday 08 May • 8:30 am-Noon
Marine Science Bldg 100
UH Manoa Campus

Please join us as the second cohort of C-MORE Scholars present on their undergraduate research experience for the Spring 2009 semester. Refreshments will be served.

For information about individual projects, please visit the C-MORE Scholars projects page.

SOEST in the News

Tiger sharks “hit-and-run” hunters

Hawai‘i’s tiger sharks roam large expanses and make brief, infrequent visits to shallow coastal sites used by swimmers and surfers, according to a new study. Their wide-ranging movements and long absences between quick visits to a location may be a hunting strategy that prevents prey from anticipating when tiger sharks will appear, said Carl Meyer, a biologist with the Hawai‘i Institute for Marine Biology (HIMB).

Read about it in the Honolulu Advertiser. Photo courtesy of HIMB.

Island reefs await extra protection

Reef-protection groups are awaiting approval of federal permits to install 52 day-use mooring buoys in a continuing effort to reduce the damage caused when boat anchors crush fragile coral colonies and destroy large swaths of underwater habitat. The program has received assistance from the UH Sea Grant College Program and the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP), which developed the “Hawaiian eyebolt” day-use mooring buoy based on a Florida design.

Read about it in the Honolulu Advertiser. Photo courtesy of Jack’s Diving Locker via Honolulu Advertiser; click on it to see the full version.

Maxine Burkett: director of new environmental center

Associate professor of law Maxine Burkett is the inaugural director of the UH Sea Grant College Program’s Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP). She currently holds a joint appointment with the William S. Richardson School of Law and the Center. ICAP is a partnership among several UH schools that aims to lead the way on climate change adaptation, law, policy, and planning for Hawai‘i and other islands in the Pacific and beyond. The goal is to provide research and real-world solutions to the public and private sectors, assuring a sustainable future.

Read about it in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Photo courtesy of Craig T. Kojima, Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Hawai‘i black coral renamed for UH oceanographer

A species of Hawaiian black coral long thought to be the same as a Mediterranean species has been renamed for oceanographer Richard “Ricky” Grigg, world-renowned big wave surfer and coral reef scientist. Grigg said he was “really shocked” when he was told that the species previously identified as Antipathes dichotoma is now described as Antipathes griggi. Grigg says black coral “is probably the best-managed species in the state” because it’s “highly visible, sold as jewelry, and it is so beautiful and so huge when you see it on the reef, it’s like you see a whale or giant ulua. It’s totally memorable.”

Read more about it in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and BioOne Online. Image courtesy of A1Surf; click on it to see the full image.

For more news, visit our News and Awards & Honors pages, and read the weekly SOEST Bulletin.

Three Top-Ten Rankings for SOEST Programs

Three 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.

Read More about it in the UH Press Release.

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The Dean’s Overview of the School

Dean Brian Taylor’s message from the new SOEST brochure, describing the school’s mission. Download a high-res (49MB) or low-res (6MB) PDF of the entire brochure.