Anna is in Kongens Lyngby today to participate in DTU Aqua’s Theme Day: “The Day of the Cod”. Anna will present recently published work on larval cod timing across the north Atlantic.
New Article: Temperature-dependent adaptation allows fish to meet their food
In collaboration between UH's SOEST, Aarhus University's AIAS, & DTU Aqua, a new open-access article exploring fish life history timing was published today in Science Advances. The study develops new thermal metrics to find evidence that the reproductive (spawning) timing of Atlantic cod is adapted to allow their young to match the seasonal occurrence of their food.
UH's 6th annual Conference of Biological Oceanography Graduate Students
Tomorrow (30 April) the Department of Oceanography at UH's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) is holding its 6th annual Conference of Biological Oceanography Graduate Students (CBOGS). This student-run event will showcase current student research in biological oceanography at SOEST.
Neuheimer Lab @ The Festival of Research / Forskningens Døgn
On Thursday 26 April, Anna will be participating in Denmark's Festival of Research. Anna will present 20 min speed lectures at Aarhus University on how and why fish time seasonal events like reproduction. More information here and below. Hope to see you there!
New Article: How coral reef life history strategies shape settlement success
A new article is out today in Frontiers in Marine Science led by Neuheimer Lab alumnus Jennifer Wong-Ala. The study developed and applied a biophysical model of individuals to explore how different life history characteristics (e.g. spawning location & date, pelagic larval duration or PLD) interact with the environment to change settlement success for fishes off west Hawai'i Island. The work identified multiple pathways (including the use of eddies) that can lead to self-recruitment for fish (and potentially invertebrate) communities in the area. The study was a collaboration among Neuheimer, Powell, McManus, and Hixon labs, as well as NOAA's Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center (Gove & Whitney). The pdf can be found here.
Neuheimer Lab @ 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, USA
Neuheimer Lab alumnus Jennifer Wong-Ala (currently at Oregon State University) will be presenting our work on how life history shapes reef fish settlement off Hawai'i Island. The work, a collaboration with NOAA as well as the McManus, Powell and Hixon labs, explores how biophysical factors shape the ability of larval reef fish to make it back to the reef. Jennifer will be presenting in today's (Monday 12 Feb) poster session from 16:00-18:00.
New Article: Characterizing the deep-sea scattering layer using DIDSON sonar
In collaboration with UH’s Marine Mammal Research Program and led by Dr. Giacomo Giorli (currently at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research), an article exploring the deep-sea scattering layer via sonar was published this month in Progress in Oceanography. In the study, we use a Dual-frequency IDentification SONar (DIDSON) to characterize abundance and size of animals in the deep-sea scattering layer off the coast of Hawai'i Island. Read more here.
Neuheimer Lab @ Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
Anna was awarded an AIAS-COFUND Fellowship and has begun tenure this month at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. The interdisciplinary institute is housed at Aarhus University where Anna's project will focus on developing and applying new mechanistic modelling tools describing controls on larval fish timing and how timing influences the propagation of climate effects through ecosystems.
Neuheimer Lab @ West Hawai’i Marine Ecosystem Symposium
The Neuheimer Lab is in Kona, Hawai’i this week to present research at the Symposium on West Hawai’i‘s Marine Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Management. Our presentation - a collaboration among those at UH Mānoa (Wong-Ala, Neuheimer, Comfort, McManus, Hixon, Powell) and NOAA (Gove) & JIMAR (Whitney) - explores how life history traits interact with physical forcing to vary reef fish settlement probability for populations on Hawai’i Island’s west coast.
Neuheimer Lab MSc Defence - Congrats Marie!
On 03 November 2017, lab member Marie Ferguson successfully defended her Oceanography MSc thesis entitled "Explaining spatial variation in coral size structure in American Samoa". Congratulations Marie on all your hard work and the end product - a clear and comprehensive contribution to the field. A big thank you to Marie's committee - Drs. Mark Merrifield, Tom Oliver and Dione Swanson.
Marie and Anna post-defence
Marie's thesis cake!
2017 SOEST Open House - Friday & Saturday
Join us this Friday and Saturday (20 & 21 October) for the 2017 SOEST Open House showcasing entertaining and educational activities from SOEST's departments and institutes including Oceanography, Geology and Geophysics, Meteorology, and Ocean and Resources Engineering. More info here including the Exhibit Program.
Lab member Jennifer Wong-Ala heads east - Aloha Jenn!
This week we say aloha! to lab member Jennifer Wong-Ala who is heading east for graduate school.
After completing the Global Environmental Science program here at UH, Jenn will start her MSc in Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University in Dr. Lorenzo Ciannelli's lab. Good luck, Jenn!
Jenn's thesis cake!
Neuheimer Lab @ XIth International Larval Biology Symposium
This week, the Neuheimer Lab is at the XIth International Larval Biology Symposium at the Ala Moana Hotel, here in Honolulu. Colleagues from 14 countries are in town to discuss research on the early life stages of marine organisms.
IMR visits The Neuheimer Lab
This summer, we are very pleased to welcome researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR). Senior Scientist Frode Vikebø and his Ph.D. student Kjersti Opstad Strand are at UH for a few months to collaborate on research exploring how biophysical factors shape fish early life history. While in town, they will be speaking at the XIth International Larval Biology Symposium that will be held from 10-13 August. Welcome Frode and Kjersti!
New Article: Tracking the Hawaiian mesopelagic boundary community through time.
A new article was published this week in AIMS Geosciences exploring how the distribution of the mesopelagic boundary community changes over the day using acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs). The effort was a collaboration with the McManus lab, led by Oceanographic Specialist Christina Comfort. You can download the pdf here.
New Article: Community structure via baited cameras in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
In collaboration with the Drazen and Smith labs, an article exploring community structure in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) was just published in Deep-Sea Research I. The CCZ is one of the richest manganese nodule provinces in the world and the paper, led by Oceanography PhD student Astrid Leitner, documents and explains community structure variability across the province.
New Article: Toothed whale foraging activity around Hawai’i.
A third article from our collaboration with UH’s Marine Mammal Research Program over at the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. In the article, we use passive acoustic recordings to explore foraging activity of toothed whales around Hawai’i.
Neuheimer Lab @ Oslo, NO
Anna is in Oslo, Norway this week to participate in a workshop on "Natural mortality in fish populations during early life stages" organized by the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the University of Oslo. Anna joins participants from Norway, USA, Germany and Russia.
Lab Member Jennifer Wong-Ala's research featured on KITV4 news
More coverage of lab member and recent GES graduate Jennifer Wong-Ala's work exploring larval reef fish dynamics was featured on KITV4 News.
Lab member Jennifer Wong-Ala's research featured on UH News
Lab member and recent GES graduate Jennifer Wong-Ala was featured on the UH News page today. Read more about her efforts exploring reef fish sustainability here. Great job Jenn!
