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“Blue carbon” is the carbon stored in mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrasses. These coastal and marine ecosystems sequester and store large quantities of blue carbon in both the plants and sediment below. In fact, recent research shows that 50% of all carbon in the ocean is stored in coastal habitats, despite taking up on only 2% of ocean area. Which means these ecosystems could be an underutilized yet critical component to battling climate change.
After a four-year hiatus, the landscapers are back. Thatʻs right, the 2023 Green Industry Annual Conference is set for Sept. 14-15 at the Hawaii Convention Center. Hosted by the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaiʻi, the event will be jam-packed with learning opportunities, including can’t-miss presentations by CTAHR faculty.
What does it take to become a world-renowned scientific investigator? Only the top researchers in the world can answer that question – and Samir Kumar Khanal of the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering is officially recognized as one of them by Research.com, the leading research portal for science rankings.
Over the past decade, CRISPR genetic engineering tools have become an essential technology in numerous industries, including food and agriculture, drug development, and therapy, as well as for ongoing scientific research. Yet, says Rock, Zhi-Yan Du of the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, these Clustered Regularly Intersced Short Palindromic Repeats systems are “not well understood in the general community, leading to fears and misunderstandings about genetic engineering and an overall anti-science outlook.”
If you’re not familiar with CTAHR’s Environment and Bioenergy Research Group, just ask the faculty and students of Can Tho University in Vietnam. Led by Samir Khanal of the Dept. of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, the group will soon travel to the Mekong Delta in a new international effort “pairing some of the United States’ top research institutions and scientists with their counterparts from countries where agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change,” notes the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.