Most bottom-dwelling marine invertebrate animals, such as sponges, corals, worms and oysters, produce tiny larvae that swim in the ocean prior to attaching to the seafloor and transforming into juveniles. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy…
Michael Hadfield Six faculty members at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have been listed among the top 1,000 scientists in the disciplines of ecology and evolution as evaluated by Research.com. School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology’s (SOEST)…
Future Tech Podcast September 23, 2019 Margaret Mc-Fall Ngai, Ph.D., is director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center and professor in the Kewalo Marine Lab at the University of Hawaii. Her research is focused on animal-bacteria symbioses, and she’s using…
The Hawaiian bobtail squid might be small, but this walnut-sized critter is one of the sea’s mightiest masters of disguise. During its evening jaunts, the squid protects itself by casting an eerie glow to match the moonlight, obscuring its silhouette…
Hawaiian Bobtail Squid. Photo Credit: The Atlantic In the wild, shortly after hatching, these squid would normally be colonized by microbes. But they are selective about their partners: Of the thousands of species of microbes in the ocean, only one—Vibrio…
A recent Journal Club article in Nature Reviews Immunology celebrates work done by the McFall-Ngai and Ruby labs at Kewalo Marine Laboratory in 2004. Read the article here [PDF]
Recently, representatives from islands across the Pacific gathered on Guam to develop approaches to increase participation of Pacific Islanders in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Michael Hadfield, biology professor emeritus at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and…
Robert Richmond was invited by the Pew Foundation to meet with the New Zealand Government in support of their proposal to establish the Kermadec Islands as one of the world's largest Marine Protected Areas. View this video produced by New…
