Announcements

Teacher talks about “Microscopes” program

On the Friday 04 May edition of Hawaii Public Radio’s “The Conversation”, Jenny Kuwahara, an 8th grade science teacher at Mililani Middle School and president-elect of the Hawai‘i Science Teachers Association, talks about C-MORE’s Microscopes in Middle Schools program and the value of hands-on experience in science education. Ms Kuwahara’s segment of the program starts at about the 38 minute mark.

C-MORE Honors: 2012

The C-MORE Honors page is now on line, listing a few of the honors recently received by C-MORE faculty and students.

Video: “Visualizing Plankton”

Grieg Steward discusses microscopy of in this new video.

Funding Opportunities

• C-MORE EDventures is “venture capital for educational activities.”

• Grants for Education in Microbial Science (GEMS) are grants (up to $1500) to promote microbial science literacy.

Previous announcements are available on the Archived News and Announcements page.

Pacific carbon pump speeds up in summer

Using 13 years of Hawai‘i Ocean Time-series (HOT) data from Station ALOHA, an international team of scientists led by C-MORE director David Karl has documented a regular, significant, and unexpected increase in the amount of particulate matter exported to the deep sea in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.

The findings were published in the 07 February 2012 issue of PNAS, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Matthew Church (UHM) and Ricardo M. Letelier (OSU) are co-authors. See the profile of Dr Karl at PNAS (subscription only). Read more about it at UH News, which also has a profile of Dr Karl.

C-MORE Hale has officially achieved LEED PLATINUM Certification!

Our new Hawai‘i research facility, C-MORE Hale, is now officially a LEED Platinum building! This is the first in the state of Hawai‘i for a laboratory facility.

Read more about it at News at UH, EarthTechling, Mānoa Campus Talk, and see the press release at the UH Newsroom. Video of a ceremony held on February 8, 2012, celebrating C-MORE Hale’s Platinum certification can be viewed here.

C-MORE Hale Grand Opening and Dedication Ceremony

At the C-MORE Hale grand opening and dedication ceremony on Monday, Oct. 25th, 2010. From left: Reverend Solomon Kekoa, United States Senator Daniel Inouye, University of Hawai‘i President M.R.C. Greenwood, National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh, C-MORE Director David Karl, UH Mānoa Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Education Gary Ostrander, and Dean of SOEST Brian Taylor.

Visit the C-MORE Hale page for more information about the ceremony, including links to an article and gallery of photos in Mālamalama (the magazine of the University of Hawai‘i); photos in our image library; downloadable event programs and fact sheets about the Center and C-MORE Hale; and videos of the grand opening and dedication ceremony, burial of a time capsule (to be opened in 25 years), and a guided tour of C-MORE Hale led by C-MORE director David Karl.

About the Center

The Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) was established in August 2006 as a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Science and Technology Center. The center is designed to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the biological and ecological diversity of marine micro-organisms.

Life has its origins in the sea: the first living things were microbes. Marine microbes are the most abundant life forms on Earth, and everything about them is extraordinarily diverse: their structures, their genomes, their physiologies, and their ecological interactions with each other and with the rest of life on the planet.

As a global research information center working across disciplines, C-MORE brings together teams of experts—scientists, educators, and community members—who usually have little opportunity to interact, facilitating the creation and dissemination of a new understanding of the critically important role of marine microbes in global habitability.

The center’s mission and unifying vision is expressed it the motto: Linking Genomes to Biomes.

The Center’s activities are shared among five partner institutions:

and is coordinated at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.