Announcements

Apply for C-MORE Scholars Program today

In Fall 2009, C-MORE granted awards to ten undergraduate students in the UH system to participate in their prestigious and competitive undergraduate scholars program.

Applications for Spring 2010 are due Tuesday 01 December, so visit the C-MORE Scholars Program web site for application information today!

Ocean FEST is online!

Ocean FEST (Families Exploring Science Together) puts science in the hands of Hawai‘i’s students and their families. Our overarching goal is to interest Hawai‘i’s kids in careers in ocean science and related Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields through fun, hands-on activities. Read more about it in the UH News.

“Ocean acidification” in Education in Chemistry

Scott Doney is the lead author in an article (scroll down to “The Elements”) on ocean acidification in the UK Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal for education.

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

C-MORE Hale
inaugural pour

On Thursday 27 August 2009 at Noon HST, a cement truck arrived at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa site of the future C-MORE Hale to make the first foundation support pour (1250 cubic feet of concrete). The two photos at right show the start of the inaugural pour!

This is in effect our initial stake in the ground and a reality check that despite the economic situation, the University administration is moving forward with their $22.5M commitment to this new project. The attractive and functional C-MORE Hale will emerge on that site over the next 15 months.

About the Center

Rendering of C-MORE Hale. 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.