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January 18, 2021
If you have ever dreamed of driving the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile now is your chance.
Kraft Heinz is looking for a team of people to drive the 27-foot orange and yellow vehicle across the country.
Those who are hired will stop at more than 200 events, create social media content, and do news interviews.
The company says they are looking for outgoing college graduates with a love of adventure.
The Weinermobile was first created by Carl Meyer in 1936. The company has unveiled a Weinerfleet, including a hot dog shaped drone in 2017, but canceled events last year due to the coronavirus.
Using new
DNA barcoding technology, a pair of shark researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (
HIMB) have determined a tiger shark caused fatal injuries to a 56-year-old Lahaina man, who was bitten at Maui’s Honolua Bay on December 8. By measuring bite marks on the surfer’s board, they have also determined the shark was approximately 14.3-feet-long.
HIMB’s Associate Researcher
Carl Meyer, a renowned shark expert said, “Prior to the development of these new techniques, uncertainty over the size and species of sharks responsible for bites to people was common. We are absolutely certain that it was a large tiger shark (in the 98th percentile for size), that bit this man.”
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Researchers were able to swab mucus left by a shark on a surfer’s board, sequence the DNA and match it to a tiger shark. DLNR photo
Swabbing for cells left in the 17-inch bite marks on a surfboard, researchers tapped into new DNA technology to determine that a 14-foot tiger shark was behind the fatal attack on 56-year-old Napili man in Honolua Bay this month.
Lead researcher and renowned shark expert Carl Meyer said that in the past, scientists have had to rely on observations by the victims or bystanders to help identify the shark in an attack. In Hawaii, the species goes unidentified in about 40 percent of incidents.
UH Research Leads to Identification of Shark Involved in Fatal Incident
Honolulu – Using new DNA barcoding technology, a pair of shark researchers at the University of Hawai‘i‘s – Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have determined a tiger shark caused fatal injuries to a 56-year-old Lahaina man, who was bitten at Maui’s Honolua Bay on December 8. Separately, by measuring bite marks on the surfer’s board, they have determined the shark was approximately 14.3-feet-long.
Lead researcher Dr. Carl Meyer, a renowned shark expert said, “Prior to the development of these new techniques, uncertainly over the size and species of sharks responsible for bites to people was common. We are absolutely certain that it was a large tiger shark (in the 98th percentile for size), that bit this man.” The DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) collaborated with HIMB to definitively identify species and to calculate shark size from bite impressions.