April 29, 2025

HIMB Researcher Lisa McManus Awarded 2025 Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellowship

Congratulations to Dr. Lisa C. McManus, a theoretical marine ecologist at UH Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), who was announced today as a 2025 […]
April 11, 2025

Kacie Kajihara Awarded 2025 Denise B. Evans Fellowship in Oceanographic Research

Kacie Kajihara, a first year PhD student in the Aquatic Microbial Ecology Lab at HawaiʻiInstitute of Marine Biology (HIMB), was announced as this year’s winner of […]
March 24, 2025

Shark Nursery Habitat Research Earns PhD Candidate Top International Award

UH News, first published March 20, 2025 Dani Bartz, a PhD candidate in the Marine Biology Graduate Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, earned the first place award for Best […]
February 21, 2025

Megan Donahue to be Director of Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology

Megan Donahue has been selected as the new director of the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology in the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth […]
February 19, 2025

HIMB Researchers Describe 10 New Sponge Species in Kāneʻohe Bay

In a series of newly published groundbreaking studies, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology (HIMB) identified 10 new species […]
December 17, 2024

Using Drones, HIMB Researchers Assess the Health of Humpback Whale Mother-Calf Pairs Across the Pacific Ocean

KANEOHE, HI (DEC 17, 2024)- In a groundbreaking study published this week in The Journal of Physiology, biologists at the Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) at […]
December 11, 2024

HIMB Researchers Characterize Keys to Successful Pregnancy in Humpback Whales 

Aerial image of a newborn humpback whale calf off Maui, Hawaiʻi. Photo by Lars Bejder (Marine Mammal Research Program; NMFS permit 20311-01).
November 1, 2024

Breakthrough Study Shows Coral Reefs will Transform but can Persist, if Carbon is Curbed

By Maria Frostic KANEOHE, HI (NOV 1, 2024)- In a breakthrough study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Hawaiʻi Institute […]