Happy 3rd Anniversary, Manu Minute! 70 Episodes and counting!

The LOHE Bioacoustics Lab is collaborating with Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Google Bioacoustic Group as well as others to host a public coding competition called BirdCLEF 2023! This exciting competition focuses on creating birdsong classification models in the hopes that new ideas and models will help to improve BirdNET!

See our very own, Erika Kekiwi in the newly released "Heart of Maui" video

Celebrating two years of our Manu Minute on Hawai'i Public Radio!

A big Congratulations to our very own Amanda Navine & Stephanie Mladinich for their amazing presentations and awards at the Hawaii Conservation Conference!

The LOHE Bioacoustics Lab is collaborating with Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Google Bioacoustic Group as well as others to host a public coding competition called BirdCLEF 2022! This exciting competition focuses on creating birdsong classification models in the hopes that new ideas and models will help to improve BirdNET!

What exciting news! Manu Minute is celebrating it's one year anniversary!

Check out our new research papers in our Lab's Publications section entitled "Timing is Everything: Acoustic Niche Partitioning in Two Tropical Wet Forest Bird Communities"

Wishing our very own Amanda Navine a great big CONGRATULATIONS for winning the Robert B. Perry Award from AOS on the "Best oral presentation on a topic pertaining to avian conservation."

We're so excited that two ʻAlalā are now at Panaewa Zoo in their new enclosure. These two ambassadors are named Pano Pau and Loli'ana. The LOHE Lab is currently recording their vocalizations to see how they will change in their new environment over time.

What an exciting re-discovery! Our native 'ua'u, Hawaiian petrel have been observed nesting on Maunakea for the first time in over 60 years! The LOHE Bioacoustics Lab has been working to find these amazing seabirds since 2017. Success!

Congratulations on your new publications- Karen Gallardo Cruz and Alex Wang! Check out their new research papers in our Lab's Publications section!

Eleven photographs by LOHE/Hart Lab's Ann Tanimoto-Johnson were selected to be used in the new Hawai'i Audubon Society Hawaii Birds Book 7th edition. She was also invited to present at their (virtual) annual meeting as one of the photograph contributors.

Celebrating the launch of our Manu Minute! Tune in to HPR-1 every Wednesday to hear a new featured Manu Minute, brought to you by The Conversation on HPR-1 and your very own LOHE Lab! If you miss an episode, check out our link on the Media Page to listen in!

Graduate students Kristina Montoya-Aiona, Keith Burnett, and Bret Mossman in the Hart lab graduated from the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science program with their Master of Science degree this May- congrats!

We have a new publication by Paxton et al. on the loss of cultural song diversity in Kauai endemic forest birds in Royal Society Open Science journal. Check out the paper on our publications page!

Members from the Hart Lab attended the 26th annual Hawaii Conservation Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Attendees included Erin Netoskie, Karen Gallardo-Cruz, Ashley Romero, and Marty Kawasaki.

Graduate students Erin Netoskie and Karen Gallardo-Cruz in the Hart lab graduated from the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science program with their Master of Science degree this December - congrats!

Several members of the Hart Lab including Kristina Paxton, Erin Netoskie, Karen Gallardo-Cruz, Marty Kawasaki, and Patrick Hart traveled to Anchorage, Alaska to present on-going research at the annual American Ornithological Society!

Lab manager and research technician, Ann Tanimoto-Johnson, presented on the behavior and vocalizations of nocturnal Hawaiian birds and bats.

After half a century, the endangered ˊUaˊu, also known as the Hawaiian Petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) has been found on Maunakea thanks to acoustic recorders deployed by the LOHE lab in collaboration with the Office of Maunakea Management at the University of Hawaiˊi at Hilo.

Hawaiˊi Forest & Trail has donated $25,000 to the University of Hawaiˊi at Hilo Biology Department to support research and technologies to reduce mosquito populations and suppress the spread of avian diseases in Hawaiˊi.

Kristina Paxton and Patrick Hart were awarded a grant from the Disney Conservation Fund to study how captive ˊAlala vocalizations may be changing as they adapt to being released in the wild.