What’s next for Hawaii’s university? Michael Keany Photo: R.M. Towill Corp. The University of Hawaii is finishing up its centennial year.

Sometime around 2013, an oceanography professor at Florida International University will emerge from his office in Miami and declare Coronado Beach the best sand strand in the United States.

The Discovery Channel will take television viewers on a research cruise with Hawaii and Oregon scientists at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

A potential new source of methane — a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide — has been identified in ocean samples collected in Hawaii.

Hawaii researchers are collecting deep-ocean data about 100 miles north of here without leaving their computers.

Despite today’s threats to the oceans, renowned oceanographer and explorer Dr. Sylvia Earle remains hopeful about our ability to ensure healthy seas and lifestyles.

If no changes are made to how oceans are currently being fished, there will be no commercial fishing by 2048, two renowned ocean experts said yesterday on the first day of the 2008 Hawaii Conservation …

If no changes are made to how oceans are currently being fished, there will be no commercial fishing by 2048, two renowned ocean experts said today on the first day of the 2008 Hawaii Conservation Conference.

Have you listened to the shrimp lately? A fish? A whale? OK, few of us have. But there are University of Hawaii researchers who are listening to these and other marine organisms to see what they can tell us …

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration launched two new buoys.