News from the Department of Geography and Environment
UHM GEO John Nightingale @_Nightingale_J recently published his first publication, a book review for "Monitoring Border Violence in the EU: Fronext in Focus" edited by Elsbeth Guild. To read the review: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00167428.2024.2408185
UH GEO Public Lecture: Today @ 12P HST, 443 Saunders- "We Exist, Because We Resist”: Megaprojects, Displacement And Dispossession In Southern Mexico" by Dr. Debbie Samaniego, UH Manoa Political Science Assistant Professor
UHM GEO graduate Dr. Myles Ritchie with Andrew Kaufman's article, "Challenges and opportunities for Hawai‘i’s Exceptional Tree Program based on the lived experiences of urban forestry practitioners" examines the program for areas of potential improvement https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1618866724003145
Join us this Thursday @ 12 HST in Saunders 443 for UH GEO Public Lecture with UHM Political Science Assistant Professor Debbie Samaniego discussing "We Exist, Because We Resist”: Megaprojects, Displacement And Dispossession In Southern Mexico" @ohai.social/tags/geography
UHM GEO MA student Heidi Kane primary authored,"Estimated Groundwater Recharge for Mid-Century and End-of-Century Climate Projections, Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Lāna‘i, Maui, and the Island of Hawai‘i" (SIR 2023-5130) https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20235130 [https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20235130]
UHM GEO MA Student Heidi Kane co-authored, "Effects of Drought and Cloud-Water Interception on Groundwater Recharge and Wildfire Hazard for Recent and Future Climate Conditions, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Maui, and the Island of Hawaiʻi, " (SIR 2023-5141) https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20235141
UHM GEO MA Student Heidi Kane co-authored the recent USGS report, Groundwater and Surface-Water Interactions in the He‘eia Watershed, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i—Insights from Analysis of Historical Data and Numerical Groundwater-Model Simulations" (SIR 2024-5020) https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20245020
UHM GEO Professor Reece Jones (@ReeceJonesUH) interviewed John Washington about his book The Case for Open Borders for @PRAEyesRight https://politicalresearch.org/2024/10/02/case-open-borders
Over 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
The UH System Common Scholarship Application for students is now open for the 2025-26 academic year. Students attending any UH campus are encouraged to apply to be considered for system and campus scholarship. Information and application is online at: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/fas/types-of-aid/
UH GEO Public Lecture: Today @ 12P HST, 443 Saunders- "Pacific Risa, A NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership: Trends And Impacts Of Climate Change In The Pacific Islands" by Dr. Keener, East-West Center Senior Research Fellow and @ASU Global Institute of Sustainability & Innovation
Join us this Thursday @ 12 HST in Saunders 443 for UH GEO Public Lecture with East-West Center Senior Research Fellow Victoria Keener discussing "Pacific Risa, A NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership: Trends And Impacts Of Climate Change In The Pacific Islands"
Check out UHM GEO PhD Candidate Olivia Meyer's (@OlieCarter) article "Plastic addicts’: troubling consumer tropes in Thailand’s neoliberal waste environment" recently published in Social & Cultural Geography https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2024.2403103?src=
Sarah Halpern and Clare Mamura of the Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council are discussing "Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council: Overview And Opportunities" TODAY @ 12 HST in Saunders 443 as part of the UH GEO Public Lecture Series
Here's the study w/ BBC by UH GEO PhD candidates Hannah von Hammerstein & Renee Setter w/ van Aswegen, Currie, and Stack entitled, "High-Resolution Projections of Global Sea Surface Temperatures Reveal Critical Warming in Humpback Whale Breeding Grounds" https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.837772/full
Join us this Thursday @ 12 HST in Saunders 443 for UH GEO Public Lecture with Sarah Halpern and Clare Mamura, The Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council, discussing "Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council: Overview And Opportunities"
UH GEO PhD Meagan Harden started the National Park Service's Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship as a part of their Maritime Wahington team working in collaboration with Maritime Service's Washington Tribal partners.
UH GEO Public Lecture: Today @ 12P HST, 443 Saunders- “ Sick Maps and the Molecular Epidemiology of Bacterial Infectious Disease” by Dr. Michael H. Norris, Assistant Professor in Microbiology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
The BBC recently asked UHM GEO PhD Candidate Hannah von Hammerstein to discuss her related research in "Too hot for humpbacks: The race to protect Pacific whales" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240913-from-hawaii-to-the-salish-sea-climate-change-is-putting-the-humpback-whale-conservation-comeback-at-risk
Join us this Thursday @ 12 HST in Saunders 443 for UH GEO Public Lecture with Dr. Michael H. Norris, Assistant Professor in Microbiology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa discussing "Sick Maps and the Molecular Epidemiology of Bacterial Infectious Disease"
