• Hawaiian Islands will be first to feel stresses of ocean acidity – A newly released study says man-made activities such as the burning of fossil fuels is raising ocean acidity at an ‘unprecedented’ rate, threatening corals and marine life.
• APEC student conference to be hosted in Hawaii | KHON2 Hawaii’s News Leader – Hawaii will again host representatives from the 21 APEC countries in February.
• Lowell astronomer, project team among last recipients of Keck Interferometer time | SpaceRef – Your Space Reference – A Lowell Observatory-led research team recently received one full night of observing time with the Keck Interferometer, a near-infrared instrument that combines the largest pair of telescopes in the world. Principal investigator Dr. Gerard van Belle of Lowell Observatory says this is the last call for proposals on the instrument, as it will soon be retired.

• Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away – A faint “satellite galaxy” 10 billion light years from Earth is the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance, says University of California, Davis, physics professor Chris Fassnacht, who aided in the satellite’s discovery.
• Patient Receives Hawaii’s First Telescope Implant for Macular Degeneration by Retina Institute of Hawaii – MarketWatch – A team of surgeons from Hawaii, Dr. Michael Bennett of Retina Institute of Hawaii and Dr. Michael McMann of McMann Institute, has successfully implanted the FDA-approved eye telescope, a first in Hawaii, at one of the leading medical centers in Honolulu.
• 100 Years Of Observing Volcanic Activity At Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | National Parks Traveler – For a century now researchers have been studying volcanic activity from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, a facility that has provided many insights into volcanoes and earthquakes in the Pacific.
• Astronomers release unprecedented data set on celestial objects that brighten and dim – Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Arizona have released the largest data set ever collected that documents the brightening and dimming of stars and other celestial objects—two hundred million in total.
• NASA Airborne Radar ‘Sees’ Inside Hawaii Volcano | Hawaii Volcano News, Images & Updates, Kilauea Eruption News, Images & Updates | Most Active Volcanoes, Volcano Monitoring | Space.com – This mission has returned to Hawaii for the third time to see how the volcano’s surface is changing, which holds clues about what’s happening inside the world’s most active volcano.
• China, India to jump forward with Hawaii telescope – China and India will pay a share of the construction cost – expected to top $1 billion – for the Thirty Meter Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano. They will also have a share of the observation time.

• Coast Guard Helps Univ. of Hawaii Research Vessel – A boat carrying a group of scientists on a University of Hawaii Marine Center research trip was headed back to shore Friday after it began taking on water 60 miles north of Oahu.
• The Tallest Mountains in the Solar System | Surprising Science – Earth just squeaks into this top ten list with this active volcano on the island of Hawaii (remember, mountains are measured from their base to their peak, and Mauna Loa’s base is far beneath the ocean surface).
• Student Teams Take Up NASA Rocket Launch Challenge | NASA & Student Launch Projects Initiative | Rockets & STEM Education | Space.com – More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools and universities across the country will show off their rocketeering skills during a NASA contest in April.
• Hawaii launches web directory of green employers – 05 Jan 2012 – News from BusinessGreen – Industries that want a clearer picture of green employment in Hawaii can tap into a new online resource that lists companies with green jobs on their payroll.
• Dark matter’s ‘cosmic web’ revealed – The Daily Record – The international project involved studying images collected over a period of five years by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHC) on Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii.
• Final Health IT Innovators Win Funding For Cancer Treatment Apps | Vadvert – UK Paid Press Release Distribution Service – Innovative winners of an HHS public data and cancer challenge have created health IT applications that use public data and existing technology to help patients and health care professionals prevent, detect, diagnose and treat cancer.

• Solar Companies Get Another Boost from the PUC – State regulators have rejected a proposal by Hawaiian Electric Co. to require solar companies to install expensive remote monitoring systems for small solar photovoltaic systems.
• Navy gets OK to buy two Hawaiian superferries – Congress has given the Navy the green light to spend up to $35 million to acquire two Hawaiian superferries from the U.S. Maritime Administration.
• Honolulu Civil Beat – Civil Beat Business – OluKai To Present TEDxMaui Conference – Olukai has announced it will present its first version of the independently produced TED conference. The spin off, dubbed TEDxMaui, will be a one-day event featuring 18 speakers from the islands of Hawaii and beyond.
• Pilot program to advance Race to the Top initiatives | Hawaii 24/7 – The state Department of Education has announced the creation of a new three-year pilot program to begin in the 2012-13 school year.

• Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning does pipeline survey – Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning announced Monday it has completed a pipeline survey that moves its $250 million project forward.
• Earth Has Two Moons, But It’s Not What You Think – Technology – The Atlantic Wire – In a day packed with astronomy news, researchers at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu came out today and declared that earth probably has two moons at any one time.
• Hawaii utility to make gas from vegetable oil – Hawaii’s gas utility has a new plant that will transform vegetable oil, coconut oil, and other fats and oils into gas.
• Closest Type Ia supernova in decades solves a cosmic mystery | e! Science News – On August 24 of this year, searching data as it poured into DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) from an automated telescope on Palomar Mountain in California, Nugent spotted a remarkable object. It was shortly confirmed as a Type Ia supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy, some 21 million light-years distant.
• Cosmic Log – Moon telescope tested on Earth – After a wild night on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, researchers report that they’ve successfully tested the remote-control system for a prototype telescope that could someday be looking at the cosmos from the surface of the moon.
• Governor Tours Proposed Maui Food Innovation Center | Maui Now – Governor Neil Abercrombie visited the University of Hawai’i Maui College and toured the site of a proposed food innovation center that would be housed in the college’s former cafeteria.

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Here is Saki Arikawa’s class photo. I am curious where all these students are currently. They’re probably juniors or seniors in high school, maybe some quit and are working. It would be interesting to find out at a minimum what is Saki Arikawa now doing?
Mahalo to U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jay C. Pugh for photos.

• Plovers tracked across the Pacific – Scientists have monitored Pacific Golden Plovers for the first time as they migrate thousands of kilometres nonstop from Hawaii to Alaska in spring and back again in autumn.
• New explanation for Hawaiian hot spot – Scientists in the US have suggested that volcanic activity in Hawaii could be fed by a giant hot rock pool 1,000 kilometers west of the islands and in the Earth’s mantle, rather than being fed by a hot plume of magma as previously thought.
• Alien life may huddle under hydrogen blankets – space – 12 … – Earth could still support life even if it were as far from the sun as Saturn, claim two scientists in the US, as long as the air abounded with hydrogen.
• Ancient Hawaiian agriculture studied – UPI.com – Archaeologists say a pattern of earthen berms on the big island of Hawaii shows how ancient Hawaiians farmed long before Europeans arrived in the islands.
• Going Virtual to Get Healthy: Kaiser Permanente Hawaii uses new media to help people thrive | Hawaii Reporter – Kaiser Permanente Hawaii announced today the launch of a new online physical activity program: Thrive Across Hawaii.
• ‘Million-Dollar Reef Sharks’ an Economic Driver for Palau — WASHINGTON, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – – A single reef shark can contribute almost US$2 million in its lifetime to the economy of Palau.
• Release No. 0176.11 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced a $25 million grant to the University of Hawaii to develop obesity prevention strategies among native populations in the Pacific Region, continuing USDA’s commitment to meet the rising challenge of obesity in the United States, especially in American youth.
• TeamPraxis Selects Microsoft Amalga to Create Hawaii’s First Online Physician Network for Healthcare Information Sharing | TTKN News – TeamPraxis, Hawaii’s pioneering physician management services organization, has selected Microsoft Amalga to bolster TeamPraxis’ existing physician information network.
• Referentia Opens Hawaii’s First Cyber Collaboration Center | EON: Enhanced Online News – Referentia Systems, an award-winning advanced cybersecurity solutions leader headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, announced today the opening of its new Cyber Collaboration Center
• Hawaii’s First Electric Car Charging Network Installed | Hawaii Reporter – Better Place today announced the initial deployment of its electric car network infrastructure in Hawaii.
• Blue Mars names new CEO – Hypergrid Business – Avatar Reality, developers of the Blue Mars 3D virtual world and iOS app, today announced the appointment of company Co-Founder Henk Rogers as CEO.

• Technology News: Science: Virgin Oceanic Sub Will ‘Fly’ to Ocean Depths – Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson on Tuesday announced his plans to begin a series of deep-sea explorations through Virgin Oceanic.
• NASA airborne radar set to image Hawaiian volcanoes – A NASA Gulfstream-III aircraft equipped with a synthetic aperture radar developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is scheduled to depart Sunday, April 3, from the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., to the Big Island for a nine-day mission.
• DeconGel(R) Provides Radiological Decontamination Technology to Japan in Wake of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Crisis – CBI Polymers LLC, the Honolulu-based innovator of DeconGel® nuclear decontaminant, will join the broad-based philanthropic effort to help with the crisis in Japan.
• Shrink Nanotechnologies Signs Binding Letter of Intent to Acquire 100% of Hawaii-Based… — IRVINE, Calif., April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – – Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”) , an innovative high technology company, announced today that it has executed a binding letter of intent to acquire 100% of Hawaii-based Nanopoint Inc.
• Students honored for creativity, message at Internet Safety Awar – Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL Home – Cyber-bullying. Internet predators. Plagiarism. Those were just a few of the topics of some award-winning student videos at the fourth annual Internet Safety Awards, held at the Farrington High School Auditorium Friday.

• HPCwire: Computer Simulations Illustrate Scope of Japanese Disaster – NOAA, as well as a number of research institution, rely on the MOST model for tsunami forecasting. MOST (Method of Splitting Tsunami) is a suite of numerical codes capable of simulating three processes of tsunami evolution: earthquake, transoceanic propagation, and inundation of dry land.
• Photo Release — NASA Global Hawk Takes the Earth’s Temperature Over the Pacific Ocean (NYSE:NOC) – A Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC)-produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11 as part of a campaign to study atmospheric rivers.
• Briefs: Grant Will Help Hawaii Establish State Technology Office – Thanks to a $3 million grant from the Hawaii Community Foundation (HCF), Hawaii will create a new Office of Information Management and Technology (OIMT), which will be led by the state’s first CIO.
• Mānoa: Grey Hats place second in regional collegiate cyber defense competition | University of Hawaii News – The UH Mānoa Grey Hats, made up of eight Information and Computer Science students, recently placed second in the at-large regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on Saturday, March 5.
• Mānoa: College of Education launches 3-D virtual environment Second Life Island | University of Hawaii News – The UH Mānoa College of Education Second Life Island (COE SL) is complete.
• Successful tech transfer leads to more Hawaiian exports – Hawaii growers can now export more fruits and vegetables to the U.S. mainland, thanks to technology advanced by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and cooperators.
• SANYO’s pedal-assist eneloop bike makes a big debut in Hawaii | Greener Ideal – After winning the award for ‘Best of Innovations’ at CES 2010, the eneloop bike manufactured by SANYO and created in partnership with World of Green, LLC, is being introduced to bike rental shops all across Hawaii. SANYO’s intention is to provide vacationers with an eco-friendly and comfortable travel option when going on long sight-seeing trips around the island.
• Mānoa: SUPER-M team returns to Moloka’i for weekend of mathematics | University of Hawaii News – University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa mathematics and engineering students, faculty and staff will team up on Friday and Saturday, February 25-26, with Moloka‘i High and Aka’ula Middle School to teach math to  K-12 students and their families.

• Bill Clinton lobbies for Hawaii studio tax credit bill – Motion picture industry giants Relativity Media LLC and Shangri-La Industries recruited Bill Clinton to push for tax credits to build studios on Maui and Oahu.
• Kamehameha Schools planning wind farm in Haleiwa | KHON2 Hawaii’s News Leader – Twelve Clipper Liberty turbines will generate 30 megawatts of electricity, enough to power almost 8,000 Oahu homes, cutting Hawaii’s oil consumption by nearly 140,000 barrels a year.
• Aegis BMD Facility To Be Set Up In Hawaii | AVIATION WEEK – A new testing site is being planned in Hawaii to mirror other Ballistic Missile Defense testing facilities at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai.
• JPL airborne sensor to study ‘Rivers in the Sky’ – NASA’s Global Hawk soars aloft from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on a functional check flight of the WISPAR aircraft payload system and science instruments.
• HECO’s new biofuels RFP faces obstacles – Hawaiian Electric has issued a new RFP for supplies of biodiesel for use in its 110-megawatt Campbell Estate Industrial Park Generating Station.
• School to put it all online – Hawaii News – Staradvertiser.com – Next school year, Kapolei Middle School will be the first traditional public school campus in the state to offer all of its classes for seventh- and eighth-graders online.
• Tropical Atlantic sees weaker trade winds and more rainfall: study – Earth’s global temperature has been rising gradually over the last decades, but the warming has not been the same everywhere.
• Hawaii, Alaska sign remote health care partnership: AP Alaska | adn.com – Hawaii and Alaska health care providers have signed an agreement to cooperate in the development and expansion of programs delivering health care using telecommunications technology.