News from the Department of Geography and Environment
Grants, Scholarships, and other funding opportunities are available for Spring 2025 & 2025-2026. Students attending any UH campus are encouraged to apply to be considered for system and campus financial support Information and application are online at:
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/fas/types-of-aid/
UHM GEO has your back with its dedication to reducing textbook costs for students, over 95% of these have ZERO COST FOR TEXTBOOKS. Please check out the available UH Geography and Environment (GEO) classes for the Spring term, visit: https://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=202530&s=GEO
UHM fall semester final exams commence today. Good luck everyone -)
Grants, Scholarships, & other funding opportunities are available for Spring 2025 & 2025-2026 academic year. Students attending any UH campus are encouraged to apply to be considered for system and campus financial support Information and application at:
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/fas/types-of-aid/
Congratulations to UHM GEO MA Ashley Clark! She will be a 2025 Knauss Marine Policy fellow and will be placed in NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Office for International Activities (OAR/IA) in Washington, DC.
During the summer the inaugural Mapping Justice: Hawaiʻi cohort with UH M Prof Marina Karides discussed "trubelmakers . If interested in sponsoring our work, or discussing ways to provide more opportunities for our diverse youth, please email hello@trubel.co
Congratulations to UH Geography and Environment Master's student Ashley Clark on the successful presentation of her thesis, " Interspecies Terroir and the Making of Bug-Bitten Tea" (Pictured Ashley and her advisor UHM GEO Associate Prof Hong Jiang)
With UHM GEO's dedication to reducing textbook costs for students, over 95% of these have ZERO COST FOR TEXTBOOKS. Please check out the available UH Geography and Environment (GEO) classes for the Spring term, visit: https://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=202530&s=GEO [https://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=202530&s=GEO]
Please join us TODAY at1PM HST for the MA defense in Saunders Hall room 433 by UHM GEO Abigail Hawkins titled: "Geographies of envy: The deformal subsumption of Philippine citizens within the Japanese populace and shame’s impact on the research agendas of scholars of color"
Please join us online TODAY from 10-11AM HST the MA defense by UHM GEO Leif Salveson entitles "Collective Conundrums: An Investigation into the Contradictions of Small-Scale Communal Economies"
Please join UHM GEO student Ashley Clark for her MA thesis presentation and defense entitled " Interspecies Terroir and the Making of Bug-Bitten Tea" today from 10-11:30 AM HST in Saunders Hall room 442
Congratulations to Keegan Kessler on receiving this semester's Pi'ianai'a Scholarship Award from the UH Manoa Geography and Environment department!
Please join us next Thursday 12/5 at1PM HST for UHM GEO Abigail Hawkins' MA defense in Saunders Hall 433 titled: "Geographies of envy: The deformal subsumption of Philippine citizens within the Japanese populace and shame’s impact on the research agendas of scholars of color"
Please join us next Wednesday 12/4 from 10-11AM HST the MA defense entitled "Collective Conundrums: An Investigation into the Contradictions of Small-Scale Communal Economies" by UHM GEO Leif Salveson
Please join us next Tuesday 12/3 in Saunders Hall room 442 from 10-11:30 AM HST for UHM GEO student Ashley Clark's MA thesis presentation and defense entitled " Interspecies Terroir and the Making of Bug-Bitten Tea"
Check out the interactive "L2FHM-KMA: Landsat- and Lidar-based Forest Height Map for Kauai Mountainous Areas" created by UHM GEO Professor Qi Chen in association with HawaiiView at https://hawaiiview.org/data/l2fhm-kma/
Congratulations to UHM GEO student Ku'u Lunn on receiving this semester's Pi'ianai'a Scholarship Award from the UH Manoa Geography and Environment department!
UHM GEO Assistant Professor Yuqin Jiang organized a special issue with Dr. Susan Shen for Sustainability @Sus_MDPI on "Sustainability - GeoAI Innovations in Urban Resilience and Climate Adaptation with Suwan Shen from Urban Planning". https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/2VPRIJ106D #mdpisustainability
Registration for UHM Spring 2025 semester starts today. To access the available UH Geography and Environment (GEO) classes for the Spring term, visit: https://www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail.classes?i=MAN&t=202530&s=GEO
UHM GEO Assistant Professor Yuqin Jiang received CyberTraining Seed Grant to develop an online workshop for disaster management in 2025 summer. Hoʻomaikaʻi!
This is a subcontract portion of NSF award #2321069 for Collaborative Research: CyberTraining
