2020, December : UH oceanographer’s TED talk among 2020’s most watched
What ideas captured people’s attention the most in 2020? The list of the most watched
TED Talks of 2020 provides some perspective. Among the talks that intrigued and
propelled us to the end of this world-shifting year is Angelicque White’s presentation
to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, DC on what ocean microbes
reveal about the changing climate.
2020, May : Jim Potemra honored with Board of Regents Service Award
James Potemra, specialist with the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in
SOEST, has been honored with a University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Presidential Award for
Outstanding Service. This award recognizes Potemra’s outstanding service, heart-felt
dedication, and noble contributions as a valued member of the campus community.
2020, January : UH oceanographer presents TED talk at the National Academy of Sciences
Angelicque White,
associate professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa School of
Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) was an invited speaker at TED's first
entirely science-focused Institute event, held at the National Academy of Sciences
(NAS) in Washington, DC. A video of her talk,
was made publicly available today.
2019, August : New leadership as ocean and climate research program celebrates
over 30 years of discovery
August 1, 2019 marks a transition to new leadership for one of the longest running
open ocean research programs in the world. Angelicque White, a newly-hired oceanography
associate professor at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and
Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) will lead the next chapter of the monumental
Hawai'i Ocean Time-series (HOT) program.
2019, June : Leaving microbes out of climate change conversation has major consequences
An international group of leading microbiologists, including University of Hawai'i
at Mānoa oceanography Professor David Karl, has issued a warning: Not including
microbes, considered the support system of the biosphere, in any climate equation
will lead to incomplete predictions of the environmental consequences of global
climate change.
2018, October : The Hawaii Ocean Time-series: 30th Anniversary Collection
The 30th Anniversary of the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) program is being celebrated
with a virtual issue of the academic journal Limnology
and Oceanography. This volume of seminal papers from HOT published by the Association
for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) on biogeochemistry, ocean physics,
and plankton ecology is freely available.
2018, August : Ocean and climate research gets $9M boost
The Hawai'i Ocean Time-series (HOT) program based at the University of Hawai'i
at Mānoa has been awarded $9 million in new funding from the National Science
Foundation to continue for another five years. Even more auspicious, this month
marks the 30th anniversary of the endeavor that has led to so many discoveries
in marine ecology and ocean and climate sciences.
2018, February : Ocean climate change research sets benchmark
The University of Hawai'i has hit a major milestone in its critical research to
observe and understand how the ocean responds to climate change. On February 28, 2018,
UH's research vessel Kilo Moana returned from its 300th scientific expedition of the
Hawai'i Ocean Time-series (HOT) program. Completion of 300 research cruises makes
Station ALOHA, about 60 miles north of O'ahu, one of the best-sampled places in the
world's oceans with a decades-long record of how the ocean responds to climate change.
2017, August : New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises
Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine
food web. In a recent report
published in Nature Microbiology, University of Hawai'i at
Mānoa oceanography professor Ed DeLong and his team report the largest single-site
microbiome gene catalog constructed to date. With this new information, the team
discovered nutrient limitation is a central driver in the evolution of ocean microbe
genomes.
2015, October : Ocean Station ALOHA designated a Milestones in
Microbiology site
Ocean Station ALOHA, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's (UHM) research
site 60 miles north of Oahu, Hawai'i, has been designated a Milestones in
Microbiology site by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). ASM
Milestones in Microbiology program recognizes institutions and scientists
that have made significant contributions toward advancing the microbial
sciences.
2014, July : Ocean's most abundant organisms have daily cycles
Communities of ocean microbes have their own daily cycles, and they are not
all about the sun. Photoautotrophs - bacteria that use solar energy to help
them photosynthesize food - have been known to sun themselves on a regular
schedule. But in a new study published in the journal Science, researchers
working at Station ALOHA, a deep ocean study site 100 km north of O'ahu,
observed different species of free-living, heterotrophic bacteria turning on
diel cycling genes at slightly different times, suggesting a wave of
transcriptional activity that passes through the microbial community each day.
Oceanography professor and C-MORE co-PI and co-director Ed DeLong was head
of the MIT team that made this discovery.
2013, March 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."
2012, February 12 : HOT news: Pacific carbon pump speeds up in summer
Using 13 years of Hawai'i Ocean Time-series (HOT) data from Station ALOHA (about 100
miles north of O'ahu), an international team of scientists led by David Karl,
professor of Oceanography and director of C-MORE, has documented a regular,
significant, and unexpected increase in the amount of particulate matter exported
to the deep sea in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. The findings were published
in the 07 February 2012 issue of PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. Oceanography assistant professor Matthew Church is a co-author.
2010, June 29 : Nutrients go deep, sunlight stays shallow?
"An ongoing mystery is how marine algae manage to be very productive
when the sunshine they need for photosynthesis is only near the surface
and the nitrate nutrients they require are in the deep ocean. Ken
Johnson (MBARI), Steve Riser (UW), and Dave Karl (director of C-MORE)
studied nitrate fluxes at Station ALOHA; their findings were published
in 06-24-10 issue of the prestigious journal Nature."
(SOEST in the News)
2010, March 17 : National Academy of Sciences honors UH-Manoa
"A group of Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) scientists from UH and
Montana State will receive the 2009 Cozzarelli Prize from the
National Academy of Sciences for the best scientific paper in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in
the areas of physical sciences and mathematics."
2009, August 16 : Research ship gets Sen. Inouye's praise
"'National interests are well-served', commented U.S. Senator
Daniel K. Inouye after his recent tour of the Research Vessel Kilo
Moana at the University of Hawaii Marine Center. SOEST's Dean Brian
Taylor and some other scientists who have used the ship since 2002
treated Hawaii's senior senator to a sampling of the wide range of
cutting-edge science they do from this unique twin-hulled
platform." (SOEST in the News)
2009, July 31 : Station ALOHA data reveal ocean acidification
"Reporting in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
lead author and former SOEST researcher John Dore (now at Montana State
University) presents an analysis of the changes of pH at Station ALOHA
over time and depth. Dore, along with SOEST co-authors Dave Karl, Roger
Lukas, Matt Church, and Dan Sadler, found that the surface ocean grew
more acidic at exactly the rate expected from chemical equilibration
with increasing atmospheric CO2" (SOEST in the News)
2009, March 7 : Surprising phytoplankton body-building technique
"In a paper published in Nature, an international team of
scientists, including UH oceanography professor David Karl,
director of the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Reasearch and
Education (C-MORE), and oceanography assistant researcher Michael
Rappe, describe a novel strategy for marine phytoplankton growth in
the vast nutrient-poor habitats of tropical and subtropical seas. "
(SOEST in the News)
All marine habitats support diverse and dynamic assemblages of
microorganisms including bacteria, archaea, eukarya and their viral
and metazoan predators. These complex communities interact through
a variety of genetic, metabolic and ecological processes to sustain
life in the sea. Recent discoveries of novel microbes, new
metabolic pathways and their intimate interrelations have
challenged pre-existing paradigms and have led to a renewed
commitment to a comprehensive study of the biology and ecology of
marine microorganisms from genomes to biomes.
2008, February 25 : Oceanography research program reaches milestone
"On February 21, 2008, the SOEST research vessel Kilo Moana
departed from the UH Marine Center on the 200th scientific
expedition of the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) after nearly 20
years of approximately monthly research cruises to observe and
interprete habitat variability and to track climate impacts on
Hawaii's marine ecosystem." (SOEST in the News)
Using data collected at Station ALOHA, scientists have sequenced
and compared the genomes of planktonic microbes living throughout
the water column in the Pacific Ocean. The pioneering study yielded
insight into the specialization of microbial communities at each
depth - ranging from 40 to more than 13,000 feet. (SOEST in the
News)
2006, January 30 : Ocean plants show effects of warming
Phytoplankton can be affected by climate change, according to a
study published by Nature. Oceanographer David Karl worked
with colleagues in the Netherlands to compare climate models to
results from Station ALOHA. (SOEST in the News)
2005, June 21 : Tiny ocean species hold big surprises
David Karl and other University of Hawaii oceanographers are part
of an international group trying to unravel the secrets of
microscopic life in the ocean using observations and data collected
at Sation ALOHA. (SOEST in the News)
2003, November 30 : UH researchers puzzle over oxygen output from oceans
A new study published in the journal Nature shows that the
ocean is a consumer of organic matter, opposing previous views on
the oxygen balance of the ocean. (SOEST in the News)