Congratulations to Maya on starting her PhD in marine ecology at Florida State University! We are so very excited for you.
Rebecca Webster and Catherine (Cassie) McTighe are featured in the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and the University of Hawa’ʻi System news for the research they are conducting in collaboration with the citizen science program Our Project in Hawaiʻi’s Intertidal (OPIHI) program! Click the photo to link to the full story.
Congratulations, Melia, on your acceptance to JABSOM! We are so very proud of you.
Congratulations to Jeff Stallman on his acceptance to the PhD program in Botany and Plant Pathology at Purdue University! We are so very proud of you.
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Read about the results of our new study in Science, explaining animal biodiversity patterns in the oceans, in this Scientific American article by Emily Willingham (image above links the story)!
Our new study explaining animal biodiversity patterns in the oceans is now available at Science! The image above is linked to the article online.
Erin co-author’s a paper in PNAS! Congratulations to Erin and her co-authors!
July 7th, 2019
Maya successfully defends her thesis on the global ecological selectivity of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates! Congratulations, Maya!
July 1-5th, 2018
Maya Munstermann presents her research poster at the 55th annual meeting of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Kuching , Malaysia!
May, 2018
Jeff graduates with his master’s in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science - congratulations, Jeff!
Waiakea High School student, Megan Nakamoto (second from right), was recently selected as a top Hawaii Island research student and competed at the Pacific Symposium for Science and Sustainability (https://www.hawaiiacademyofscience.org/ps3/) in Honolulu for her work in the lab with Maya on the ecology of extinction risk in terrestrial mammals. Her science teacher, Whitney Aragaki (far left) is a graduate of the UH Hilo TCBES Master’s program!
March 1, 2018
Maya's work highlighted in Ka Lono Hanakahi! The image below will take you to the full cover-story "UH Hilo an active participant in cooperative research" by Ken Hupp.
February 26, 2018
Jeff's work also covered in the University of Hawaii News! The image below will take you to the full story.
February 23, 2018
Jeff's work highlighted in UH Hilo Stories by the Office of the Chancellor! The image below is a link to the full story.
December 27, 2017
Our new paper on opercle bone shape evolution came out today in PLOS ONE!
August 28, 2017
Erin Datlof published work from her master's thesis at UH Manoa with Nicole Hynson on fungal diversity in plant DNA databanks in PeerJ!
May 17, 2017
Our new paper on the complexity of organisms and their size was just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B!
October 31, 2016
Our new Science paper on the distinct ecological signature of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans has received a lot of media attention. The image below is a link to the over 75 news stories on this research:
September 20, 2016
Our new paper on sculpin homing and site fidelity to their home tidepools was accepted in the Journal of Fish Biology today!
September 16, 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry highlights the results of our new Science paper in his closing remarks of the State Department's "Our Oceans" meeting (the image below is a link to listen to or read speech; ~5 minutes 30 sec in is when he talks about our work):
Secretary of State John Kerry discusses our new paper on the distinct ecological signature of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans
September 16, 2016
Our new paper on extinction intensity and selectivity was accepted in Biology Letters today!
September 15, 2016
Our new paper on the emerging mass extinction in the oceans was published in Science today! The image to the right is a link to access the full article:
The University of Hawaii video press release on this paper
September 20th, 2015
Our paper on the evolution of body size in marine animals was published in Science!
Press coverage by NBC News, BBC News, PBS News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and more (the image below from NBC Nightly News links to the 60 news outlets that covered this story):
March 4th, 2015
Our paper on the ecology-diversity relationship of marine animals over the past 540 million years was published in Nature Communications!
Read the full article here
See the twitter attention, blogs, article views, etc. here or the images below link directly to news articles:
