News from the Department of Geography and Environment
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
UHM GEO Public Lecture TODAY at NOON HST in Saunders 443 discussing "Remapping Carceral Archipelagos: Memorial Pilgrimages To World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites" with UH Manoa Department of Ethnic Studies Assistant Professor Kyle Kajihiro
Please join us TODAY from 3-5PM HST fordissertation defense by UHM GEO Marcus Peng entitled "The economic value of Hawai‘i beaches, site characteristics, and outdoor recreation time assessed at multiple scales under stated and revealed preference methods of non-market valuation"
Join us this Thursday @ 12 HST in Saunders 443 for UH GEO Public Lecture with UH Manoa Department of Ethnic Studies Assistant Professor Kyle Kajihiro discussing
"Remapping Carceral Archipelagos: Memorial Pilgrimages To World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites"
This Wednesday from 3PM-5PM HST UHM GEO PhD student Marcus Peng defends his dissertation, "The economic value of Hawai‘i beaches, site characteristics, and outdoor recreation time assessed at multiple scales under stated and revealed preference methods of non-market valuation"
Registration for UHM Spring 2025 semester starts November 18, 2024. 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
Next Wednesday 11/13/24 from 3PM-5PM HST UHM GEO's Marcus Peng will defend his dissertation, "The economic value of Hawai‘i beaches, site characteristics, and outdoor recreation time assessed at multiple scales under stated and revealed preference methods of non-market valuation"
UHM GEO Professor Reece Jones @ReeceJonesUH was quoted discussing the Border Patrol by Mother Jones in this article, "How a Compromised Search and Rescue System Leaves Migrants in Peril." (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/border-search-rescue/)
Congratulations to UHM GEO graduate student William Duncan Miller for his recent promotion by the US Army to the rank of Major.
Next Friday (11/8) UHM GEO Prof Krisna Suryanata will be giving a talk for the Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences seminar in St. John 811 from 1:30-2:30 PM HST, "A Country in the City:
Urban Agriculture in Berlin" based on her 2024 summer study abroad.
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
