In April 2025, the University of Guam welcomed visiting researchers as part of an ongoing collaboration on the development of a new research instrument that can be used to assess the bleaching risk of different types of coral.

UOG Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant Director Austin Shelton, Ph.D., and Lt. Gov. Josh Tenorio facilitate the July Guam Green Growth (G3) Steering Committee. At the meeting, G3 working groups share updates that feed into the island-wide action framework dashboard.

Guam Green Growth reports regional and local initiatives at July meeting

Louella Losinio July 8, 2025

At the July Guam Green Growth (G3) Steering Committee meeting, members highlighted progress toward the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals—both locally and regionally—including the launch of a new Green Growth hub in Micronesia and a watershed restoration workforce initiative that expands the G3 Conservation Corps.

Ernesto Guades, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Guam School of Engineering, works with COMPASS NextGen undergraduate interns to prepare a plastic lumber prototype using an extruder machine at the Guam Green Growth (G3) Circular Economy Makerspace & Innovation Hub.

UOG School of Engineering research at G3 Makerspace explores plastic as construction material

Louella Losinio July 8, 2025

The Guam Green Growth (G3) Circular Economy Makerspace & Innovation Hub is collaborating with Ernesto Guades, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Guam School of Engineering, on a research project exploring how certain types of recyclable plastic can be prototyped into construction materials.

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Guam EPSCoR’s Lobban receives award from Japanese diatom society

Ruzelle Judicpa July 2, 2025

In 2024, Guam NSF EPSCoR senior researcher Christopher Lobban, Ph.D., received an award from the Japanese Society of Diatomology for his paper “Disymmetria reticulata, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Mediophyceae: Thalassiosirales), a new genus in Lauderiaceae emend., and transfer of Lauderia excentrica.” Lobban, a UOG professor emeritus of biology, is the first non-Japanese member of the organization to receive an award.

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Students board the Nautilus vessel before Marianas Trench expedition

Kyle Mandapat June 30, 2025

Students from the University of Guam’s (UOG) National Science Foundation Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES), Navigating Home and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) programs recently embarked on an extraordinary journey of scientific discovery, touring the state-of-the-art research vessel, Nautilus Live. This unique opportunity provided future island scientists with an invaluable firsthand look into cutting-edge ocean exploration and research.

UOG welcomes researchers for coral restoration collaboration

Ruzelle Judicpa June 26, 2025

UOG researcher explores the biodiversity of crabs in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf

Amanda Dedicatoria July 18, 2023

The specimens gathered from these expeditions will be placed in the Guam Ecosystems Collaboratorium for Corals and Oceans (GECCO) Biorepository, a physical and cyber warehouse

UOG grad student explores the small world of meiofauna

Amanda Dedicatoria July 3, 2023

Over the course of the workshop, Vega was able to connect with meiofauna experts from around the world as well as learn different collection and

UOG student sets sail on deep-sea research voyage

Amanda Dedicatoria July 3, 2023

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Science and Technology committee reports progress in developing plan for Guam

Louella Losinio May 2, 2023

At the first University of Guam- Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Science and Technology (S/T) committee meeting of 2023, members discussed ways to

Guam NSF EPSCoR showcases research at sustainability conference

Amanda Dedicatoria April 27, 2023

Graduate students, postdocs, as well as other researchers were able to speak about their work to attendees of the University of Guam Conference on Island

Search for Guam’s next conservation force underway

Guam EPSCoR January 11, 2022

Guam Green Growth (G3) Conservation Corps members examine honeybee hives at a ranch on Aug. 10, 2021 in Malesso’, Guam. Christopher Rosario, a local apiarist

Come spark new industries in new Guam Green Growth Makerspace

Guam EPSCoR December 27, 2021

Previous Next Entrepreneurs and creators throughout the island can put their innovative abilities to work and transform waste into marketable products at one convenient location

Students present and win at STEM conference

Amanda Dedicatoria December 22, 2021

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UOG NSF EPSCoR welcomes Dr. Michalis Mihalitsis, the Biorepository's new assistant professor of vertebrate morphology.

UOG NSF EPSCoR Biorepository welcomes new fish expert

Ruzelle Judicpa April 15, 2025

Born and raised in Greece by the Mediterranean Sea, Michalis Mihalitsis, Ph.D., gained an interest in fish as a child, fishing with his family and keeping aquariums in his home. He went on to study marine biology and earned his Ph.D. at James Cook University, studying the ecology of predatory fishes.