1946 Hawai'i Tsunami publication now available online

Peter Brueggeman, Librarian at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has recently arranged for this publication to be made available online.

The digital book index

Digital Book Index provides links to more than 130,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 90,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

Canada France Hawaii Telescope - Images of the Cosmos

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT) is the oldest international astronomical facility on Mauna-Kea. CFHT made Waimea its home and has been playing for more than 30 years an important role in the local community, thanks to its diverse and dynamic staff. Its 3.6-m telescope has been, and remains, one of the best in its class. Though bigger telescopes came to Mauna Kea in recent years, CFHT is still one of the leading facilities in todays astronomy, thanks to a suite of unique instruments. One of them, MegaCam, the largest digital camera in operation on a telescope, has been since mid-2003 one of CFHTs signature instruments. MegaCam is delivering images of the cosmos of exquisite quality to scientists all over the world, leading to cutting edge science. These images, while scientifically invaluable, are also aesthetically breathtaking, leaving the spectator in awe of the beauty and immensity of the Universe.

Gathering the Forgotten Voice: An Oral History of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescopes' Early Years

They came to the Big Island from as far away as Murrumbeena, Australia, and as near by as Hilo. They were progeny of Scottish coal miners, French physicists, Chicago truck drivers, Japanese samurai and Big Island cane workers. Together, these men and women would build and commission one of the most dynamic and productive 3.6-meter telescopes in the world that remians in the forefront of science and technoloy.

Complimentary DVD now available.
Contact:
Liz Bryson, CFHT librarian
bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu