Department of Geography and Environment Faculty

Our faculty offers world-class geographic knowledge and expertise at local, national, and international scales, focusing on Asia and the Pacific.


David Beilman

Professor
Office: Saunders 419
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7311
Email: beilman@hawaii.edu
Biogeography, Climate Change, Ecosystems

Qi Chen

Professor
Office: Saunders 435
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-3524
Email: qichen@hawaii.edu
Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Science

Thomas Giambelluca

Professor
Office: Saunders 417
Email: thomas@hawaii.edu
Climatology, Hydrology, Ecohydrology

Pallavi Gupta

Instructor
Office: Saunders 414
Email: pallavi@hawaii.edu
Feminist Geography, Racial Capitalism, Labor

Hong Jiang

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 437
Email: hjiang@hawaii.edu
Culture, Perception of Nature, China

Reece Jones

Professor, Department Chair
Office: Saunders 412
Email: reecej@hawaii.edu
Political Geography, Geopolitics, Borders

Aurora Kagawa-Viviani

Assistant Professor
Office: Saunders 415
Email: kagawa@hawaii.edu
Ecohydrology, Restoration, Water Resources

Marina Karides

Professor, Undergraduate Chair
Office: Saunders 416
Email: mkarides@hawaii.edu
Island Studies, Feminisms, Political Economy

Camilo Mora

Professor, Graduate Chair
Office: Saunders 413
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7093
Email: cmora@hawaii.edu
Biodiversity Threats and Conservation

Mary Mostafanezhad

Professor
Office: Saunders 440
Email: mostafan@hawaii.edu
Human-Envr. Relations, Tourism, Development

Orhon Myadar

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 420
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8465
Email: orhon@hawaii.edu
Forced Mobility, Displacement, Nomadism

Krisna Suryanata

Professor
Office: Saunders 438
Email: krisnawa@hawaii.edu
Pol. Ecology, Ag & Food, Comm-based Mgmt.

Ross Sutherland, Faculty, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Ross Sutherland

Professor
Office: Saunders 439
Email: sutherla@hawaii.edu
Fluvial Geomorphology, Soil Erosion

Brian Szuster

Professor
Office: Saunders 436
Email: szuster@hawaii.edu
Aquaculture, Seafood, Coastal Tourism, EIA


Cooperating Graduate Faculty

  • Leah Bremer (lbremer@hawaii.edu) - Ecosystem Services, Social-ecological Systems, Watershed Management and Conservation, Land-use Change, Water Resources
  • Erik Franklin (erik.franklin@hawaii.edu) - Marine Ecology, Coral Reefs, Fish and Fisheries, Computational and Quantitative Methods, Geospatial Modeling, Invasive Species, Restoration Ecology
  • Laurel Mei-Singh (meisingh@hawaii.edu) - Land and Militarization, Race and Indigeneity, Racial Capitalism, Oceania
  • Mark Merlin (merlin@hawaii.edu) - Biogeography, Ethnobotany, Natural History of the Pacific
  • Daniel Spencer (spencer8@hawaii.edu) - Tourism Policy, Planning, and Management

Affiliate Graduate Faculty

  • Henry Diaz (hfdiaz@hawaii.edu) - Climatology, Climate Variability
  • Micah R. Fisher (fisherm@eastwestcenter.org) - Political ecology, conservation, social forestry, agrarian change, disaster management, participatory methodologies, Indonesia/Southeast Asia
  • Abby Frazier (abbyf@hawaii.edu) - Climatology, Ecology, Geospatial Analysis
  • Jefferson Fox (FoxJ@EastWestCenter.org) - Land-use and Land-cover Change, Spatial Analysis, Rural-urban Transition, Southeast and South Asia
  • Sandeep Kandikuppa (kandikus@eastwestcenter.org) - Rural livelihoods, common pool resources, financial well being and inclusion, collective action and institutions
  • Lisa C. Kelley (lisa.kelley@ucdenver.edu) - Critical Physical Geography, Agrarian Studies, Remote Sensing, Agrarian and Forest Change
  • Yi Qiang (qiangy@usf.edu) - Spatio-temporal Data Modeling, Visual Analytics, Geocomputation
  • Ming Li Yong (yongm@eastwestcenter.org) - Water Governance, Political Ecology, Nature-Society, Environmental Justice, Mekong Region/Southeast Asia

Adjunct Faculty


Emeriti Faculty