Award Data

Not Available The U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands are extremely isolated rural communities, with limited opportunities, and attendant socio-economic ailments. The best opportunity for sustainable economic development is lucrative black pearl farming. This offers great potential, but wild oysters are scarce, and prospective local farmers lack necessary support. Our first commercial farm in Majuro ...

Triploidy offers an excellent opportunity for increased profitability and competitiveness of hatchery-based pearl farming in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands and Hawaii, for little additional cost. Techniques developed in Phase I for inducing triploidy in black-lip pearl oysters (Pinctada margaritifera) using Cytochalasin B and 6-DMAP were very successful ? up to 100% in several cases. These ex ...

A SYSTEM UTILIZING THE FREE-WING CONCEPT HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR LIGHT AND VERY LIGHT WING-LOADING AIRCRAFT THAT ACCOMMODATES MODERATE TO HEAVY TURBULENCE WITHOUT TRANSMITTING HIGH GUST LOADINGS TO THE AIRFRAME OR THREATENING LOSS OF CONTROL. THE PROJECT WILL TEST THE SYSTEM IN A RESEARCH VEHICLE APPROXIMATING THE DESIGN CRITERIA SET FORTH IN 14 CFR, PART 103; THE RESEARCH VEHICLE IS UNMANNED.

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AN IMMUNOASSAY FOR THE PESTICIDE, CARBOFURAN. PHASE I WILL CONSIST OF SYNTHESIZING SUITABLE HAPTENS, CONJUGATING THESE HAPTENS TO AN IMMUNOGENIC CARRIER, PREPARING AND SCREENING RABBIT ANTISERA, AND CONDUCTING PRELIMINARY COMPETITIVE ELISA TESTS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS APPROACH TO A RAPID, ECONOMICAL PESTICIDE DETECTION SYSTEM.

Not Available The striped snakehead or murrel is a highly prized foodfish in Asia. Several thousand metric tons of frozen snakeheads are imported annually to supply the existing demand for this fish by the domestic Asian seafood market. The striped snakehead was introduced to the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, in the early 1800s, where a small established population remains. The successfully completed Ph ...

Objectives: Phase I research demonstrated the feasibility of rotifer production and enrichment, and day 1-15 larval rearing of Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer) at an inland hatchery site in Hawaii. The overall objective of the Phase II research and development effort will be to remove all further technical impediments to the profitable culture of Asian sea bass in Hawaii. The specific technical o ...

HMSSS project focuses on the production of solar sea salt-leveraging sun, seawater, and wind resources-as the basis for commercial enterprises, jobs, and entrepreneurial opportunities for Molokai, an economically depressed community. The feasibility of HMSSS processes was clearly substantiated by Phase I test results, which showed that the processed products met FDA requirements. Phase II is the c ...

Not Available Hawai'i's agriculture has been transforming in response to changing world conditions and competitiveness. No longer are sugar and pineapple plantation farming the mainstays of Hawai'i's agricultural economy. The focus now is on diversified and sustainable agriculture, taking place on small to medium size family- farms. These entrepreneurial farmers are providing new opportunities tow ...

1.Establish magnetophoresis gene transfer protocols for target crops; 2. Design and construct phenotype-specific gene vectors; 3. Produce commodity transgenic for novel flower color genes; 4. Produce commodity transplastomic for novel flower color genes; 5. Produce commodity transgenic for a daylength neutrality gene.