Learn about how experience from being a young aquarist has helped in designing this graduate student research at HIMB, using mesocosm systems to explore the formation of coral reef halos, mysterious patterns found in reefs around the world.

Sewage pollution in the Hawaiian Islands threatens communities that rely on a clean ocean for cultural practice, recreation, and sustenance. Come read about someone who grew up using all of these ocean resources, now thrilled to have the chance to give back to the community through their sewage pollution research.

Got the research blues? Hot-scientist summer didn’t go the way you planned? Mai hopohopo mai – don’t worry! In this blog, the author shares her own woes while providing methods for maintaining self-love and continuing to holomua (move forward) when your research plans go awry.

More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more in the oceans, too, which alters marine chemistry and endangers marine life. Come read about how Hawaiʻi is developing plans to combat ocean acidification.

Each year, the National Sea Grant College Program matches highly qualified graduate students with hosts in the legislative or executive branches of government in Washington, D.C. for the prestigious Knauss Fellowship. Read about the experience of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant's 2020 Knauss Fellow.

Wastewater is a fact of life we tend to shy away from. But with sea-level rise compromising many coastal cesspools, attention (and legislation) has focused on the larger cesspool issue in Hawaiʻi. Read more about our 2020 Grau Fellow’s experience working on this unmentionable problem.