Mark Wright (PEPS) was interviewed for a Civil Beat article on efforts to control the macadamia felted coccid, a pest of macadamia that can suck the trees dry of sap, killing them. Mark is one of the state’s foremost researchers on the coccid and says that the insect is taking its toll on the industry.

Dean Comerford is quoted in a Washington Post article on the damage that Island agriculture has undergone thanks to Hurricane Lane on top of the eruptions on the Big Island and the heavy flooding that Kaua‘i experienced in April. “It’s been a tough year for agriculture in Hawai‘i,” he confirms.

A CTAHR scientist and his protoge describe the benefits of microaeration in anaerobic digestion process in their recent critical review research paper in Biotechnology Advances.

The first speaker in the UH Manoa Institute of Sustainability and Resilience's interdepartmental seminar series will be Clay Trauernicht (NREM), who will discuss wildfire ecology on Monday, August 27, from 12 to 1:20 p.m. in the iLab (Building 37).  RSVP for lunch by Friday, August 24.

Researcher Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer of CRISPR research, will present a special seminar on “CRISPR Biology: The Future of Genome Editing” on Tuesday, September 18 at 3 p.m. in the Sullivan Center Auditorium at the UH Cancer Center (in Kaka‘ako, next to JABSOM).