At 5,150 meters (approximately 3.2 miles) below sea level, the deepest controlled-source electromagnetic survey of the sea floor happened above an oceanic trench in the Aleutian-Alaska Subduction Zone.
Bo Qiu of the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology becomes only the second non-Japanese awardee to receive the 2019 Prize of the Oceanographic Society for his research on North Pacific waters.
Scientists have observed that the areas the subtropical “gyres” cover experience chemistry changes periodically, especially levels of phosphorus and iron, ultimately affecting its biological productivity.
Patricia Fryer, a professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, was invited to participate for her expertise in the Mariana Trench.
The buoy will measure carbon dioxide and other important seawater characteristics within American Samoa Fagatele Bay’s vibrant tropical coral reef ecosystem.
They are surviving under ocean conditions that many predicted would decimate all coral reefs on the planet, according to doctoral researcher Christopher Jury.