Applied Research

The highly anticipated website for HOST Park, Hawaii’s premier hub for research and development in renewable energy and ocean science and technology, is officially live. This user-friendly platform is your ...
Read More HOST Park Unveiled: Dive into an Ocean of Innovation Online

NELHA has received an award from the US Department of Energy to utilize the existing 4 acre CSP array to provide heat for a forward osmosis project. The project plans ...
Read More NELHA Receives M Federal Funding for Forward Osmosis Desalination Project

Infrasound Laboratory located at NELHA focuses on inaudible low frequency sounds generated by large events including volcanic eruptions, meteors, tsunamis. This recent blog gives a good overview on volcanic acoustics work done ...
Read More Infrasound Laboratory work highlighted in blog on volcano accoustics

UH’s Infrasound Laboratory (ISLA), whose home base is at NELHA,  is part of a 13-university and eight national laboratories team under the newly established consortium called the Center for Verification Technology. Dr. Milton Garces, ...
Read More ISLA Partners on New -million Project to Improve Nuclear Arms Control Verification Technology

West Hawaii Today reported on sea water air conditioning a few days ago. The technology first implemented at NELHA 30 years  is gaining popularity.

Infrasound from the meteor blast generated by the February 2013 Chelyabinsk event propagated around the world and was recorded at least twice in Antarctica. Dr. Milton Garces from the Infrasound ...
Read More Infrasound Laboratory at NELHA contributes to research on 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor crash