Support from the Conchologists of America

Jun 21, 2022

Support from the Conchologists of AmericaI am very excited to announce that our project has been selected to receive a $2,200 grant from the Conchologists of America to support our research! The Conchologists of America fund laboratory research related to malacology, and malacology-related projects. Reviewers were pleased with our project, and we are invited to publish a summary of our research in their publication American Conchologist by June 2023. This $2,200 grant will go a long way towards helping us finish our project! 
Mahalo for all of your support! Very exciting times for our project! 

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Why did a prehistoric community of snails in Hawaii go extinct?

Hawaii Pacific University

After the last ice age, temperatures in the Northern hemisphere rose and precipitation levels were dramatically altered. We are beginning to understand how these changes impacted many areas, but what about Hawaii? We have dated shells from extinct, endemic Hawaiian snails to this period of global change, and we will use isotopes from these shells to examine how Hawaii's environment changed. We hypothesize that rising temperature and lowered precipitation led to the extinction of these snails.