As artificial intelligence grows more advanced, state lawmakers are pushing to regulate the controversial technology in Hawaii. A number of AI-related bills are moving through the state Legislature this week, each one proposing some degree of state control over the future of the rapidly advancing technology. The most prescriptive of the bills, Senate Bill 2687, […]
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View image credit & caption Research News Giant sea salt aerosols play major role in Hawaii’s coastal clouds, rain Particles scatter light, act as starting point for cloud formation and initiate or limit rainfall January 25, 2024 Despite their tiny sizes, aerosols — such as sea salt, dust and ash — play a significant role
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Visitors to the East Hawaiʻi Veterans Cemetery No.1 grounds in Hilo have a new map to assist them in locating gravesites thanks to a map created by student geographers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. The team used drones, hands-on fieldwork and extensive geographic information system (GIS) programming to create the map. The online map gives viewers an overhead view of
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A massive brown plume has scientists worried despite protective measures aimed at preventing toxic runoff. A group of scientists raced into the ocean off Lahaina on Wednesday morning to quickly gather samples from a massive brown plume that surrounded the fire-scorched West Maui town. Wearing waders, gloves and respirators, they filled buckets and test tubes
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Two University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa students, Cherryle Heu and Roderick “RJ” Tabalba, have clinched the grand prize in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Michael H. Freilich Data Visualization Competition. Their user-friendly data visualization tool is aiding Hawaiʻi ranchers in navigating the challenges of drought. Heu, a master’s student in the Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Management and Tabalba a PhD student in the Information and Computer Sciences
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A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and UH Mānoa are leading the charge to explore the relationship between hooved animals and the spread of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD). Maps of hard hit districts on Hawaiʻi Island were recently released online from a collaborative study involving community, county, state and federal experts and show the destructive role animals such as cattle and pigs
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The ability to provide enhanced risk assessments now exists, but it needs help getting off the ground. University of Hawaii researchers are pushing to kickstart the second phase of a years long project to help the state better forecast wildfires by using artificial intelligence. Researchers say they have developed the technology needed to boost risk
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Research on the trillions of microorganisms that make up a person’s or ecosystem’s microbiome can lead to medical breakthroughs to treat diseases like inflammatory bowel syndrome and diabetes and discoveries that transform conservation efforts. According to a study published in Nature Microbiology and co-authored by a University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa associate professor, microbiome samples from Indigenous
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by Marcia Grabowski Climate change in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Islands worsens inequities and threatens unique island ecosystems, cultural resources, human health, livelihoods, the built environment, and access to clean water and healthy food. These are among the findings of the U.S. National Climate Assessment, released by the Biden Administration which involved five University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers. The
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The 2023 hurricane season officially draws to a close Thursday, extending to five years a run of average to below-average Central Pacific hurricane seasons. However, this year’s season will be forever remembered for its link to the origin of the deadly Maui wildfires. That connection is so strong that the Central Pacific Hurricane Center will
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