SciFund Fuels Smith Lab Research

Levi Lewis, a PhD student in the Smith Lab, talks about his experience participating in the SciFund Challenge – an experiment designed to help scientists raise money by reaching out to the interested public, as well as interacting and informing people about their current research projects.

Put Your Money Where Your Reef Is

Levi Lewis, a Ph.D. student in the Smith Lab, gives us his view on a peer-reviewed study, commissioned by NOAA, that estimates the value of Hawaiian coral reefs.

Finding Inspiration

Levi & Em's Frog in To Kill a Coral Reef

Levi Lewis, a Ph.D. student in the Smith lab, talks about what inspires him to continually fight to protect coral reefs around theworld.

Notes From the Field: Palmyra Atoll

Maggie Johnson, the newest Ph.D. student in the Smith Lab, talks about her experience looking at the various effects of elevated CO2 on the coral reefs of the Palmyra Atoll.

In the News! Lahaina, Hawaii News

Two of our very own PhD students, Levi Lewis and Emily Kelly, celebrate the 2nd annual birthday of the Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (KHFMA) and made the front page of the Lahaina News!

Earth Day at Qualcomm

Members from the Smith and Sandin lab joined together to celebrate Earth Day at Qualcomm Headquarters. This was a great opportunity for our group to share some of the work we are doing to help understand and protect coral reef ecosystems with the public. Clint Edwards, a M.Sc. student with the Smith Lab who was at the event said “It … Read More

Featured Research: Ocean Acidification

Read more about some of our current research on Ocean Acidification in this recently published piece from Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry News. See pg. 9 for some images and data from our last trip to the Line Islands. Check out the full article here: Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry News, Winter 2011