Deep in the Honouliuli Forest Reserve a sophisticated monitoring system is being administered by the Pacific Biosciences Research Center to observe Caly or cyanea calycina.
Joanna Philippoff, assistant specialist at UH Mānoa’s College of Education, was awarded $44,000 from the UH Sea Grant College Program for professional development for middle and high school science teachers and internships for students.
The new spectrometer is the only one in the region and substantially increases research and student training the UH Hilo Analytical Laboratory can support.
UH Mānoa researchers shows how shifting atmospheric circulation patterns that may be caused by climate change are threatening populations of the iconic silversword on Haleakalā.