Ocean Blog

In honor of World Oceans Day, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard called on the people of Hawai‘i and across the country to take action to protect and preserve the world’s oceans for generations to come.

Celebrate the third annual World Oceans Day, “Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet” at Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area on June 8, 2018 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A new wave buoy off Kalaeloa Barbers Point was deployed by the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS).

Hawai‘i’s fisheries provide more than two million pounds of fish each year throughout the state.

Kahalu‘u Beach Park will be closed from 7 a.m. to noon on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1 and 2, 2018, due to anticipated coral spawning events.

The Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund reports that record amounts of net masses have hit Hawai‘i’s shores this year.

The U.S. Geological Survey announces that control efforts such as the removal of shipwrecks and application of chlorine may help mitigate the damaging effects of corallimorph.

On the morning of Sunday, March 4, 2018, Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund (HWF) and volunteers don gloves and began hauling derelict fishing nets and ropes and other plastic marine debris.

The University of Hawai‘i announces that for the first time, scientists from UH Mānoa and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will track and study ocean microbes.

First comprehensive map documenting the relative impact of human activities and natural events in slowing reef recovery

Completion of 300 research cruises marks a major scientific milestone and makes Station ALOHA one of the best-sampled places in the world’s oceans.

The Pacific Whale Foundation’s reports that their raft the Ocean Journey, on its first whale watch of the day, came across a humpback placenta in the water.

As a child growing up on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, Narrissa Spies thought the classroom and beach were two separate and distinct places.

The deepest 45%t of the ocean depth range remains one of the most unexplored and inaccessible regions on the planet. Twelve people have walked on the moon while only three people have ever been to the deepest zone in the ocean, the hadal zone.

Whale shark sighting are said to be common in Hawai‘i.

The primary cause of reef fish declines across the Hawaiian Islands is overfishing, according to the largest study of its kind ever published.

The group found that for every degree Celsius increase of sea surface temperature, the destructive potential of typhoons in the western North Pacific can increase by 340%

NOAA and University of Hawai‘i marine scientists will publish a study describing a complete absence of the introduced, invasive bluestriped snapper or ta‘ape, across a large region of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Marine Conservation Institute has selected Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument as one of the winners of the first-ever Global Ocean Refuge System (GLORES) awards.

UH Mānoa researchers have compiled the largest single-site microbiome gene catalog to date.