News from the Department of Geography and Environment
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"As Thailand gasps through another haze season, researchers hope a fire-charting app can help" utilizes UH GEO Professor Mary Mostafanezhad's Chiang Mai air pollution research to look at its effects, impacts, and possible proposals such as this app. https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/world/article/thailand-has-tried-for-years-to-solve-its-19519341.php
UH GEO Professor Mary Mostafanezhad's air pollution research in Chiang Mai, Thailand is drawing attention to this major issue. This article in the Diplomat, (https://thediplomat.com/2024/06/thailand-has-tried-and-failed-to-solve-its-pollution-problem/) discusses in more depth how Chaing Mai is one of the world's worst air-polluted cities.
The Washington Post highlighted how UH GEO Professor Mary Mostafanezhad's air pollution research in Chiang Mai, Thailand is helping impact the burning policies across the region. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/17/thailand-air-pollution-corn-burning-chiang-mai/b4f8879e-2d0e-11ef-bcdf-31cdebd3022f_story.html
Join us THIS MORNING (June 5th) at 11AM HST UH Manoa GEO PhD Graduate Borjana Lubura
will be discussing her lived experiences in "Breaking the Silence: Unveiling
Domestic Violence Myths and Shaping the Future"
Register at
https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-mrqj4tHtTCfIYwNnDiurpkvA-ffu3j
or https://tinyurl.com/June52024
Thank you to the AAG for highlighting UHM GEO in this article, "Program Profile: University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa" (https://www.aag.org/program-profile-university-of-hawai%CA%BBi-manoa/)
Mahalo!
THIS Wednesday, June 5th at 11AM HST UH Manoa GEO PhD Graduate Borjana Lubura
will be discussing her lived experiences in "Breaking the Silence: Unveiling
Domestic Violence Myths and Shaping the Future"
Register at
https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-mrqj4tHtTCfIYwNnDiurpkvA-ffu3j
or https://tinyurl.com/June52024
Next Wednesday, June 5th at 11AM HST UH Manoa GEO PhD Graduate Borjana Lubura will be discussing her lived experiences in "Breaking the Silence: Unveiling Domestic Violence Myths and Shaping the Future"
Register at https://hawaii.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-mrqj4tHtTCfIYwNnDiurpkvA-ffu3j or https://tinyurl.com/June52024
Congratulations to the Spring 2024 UHM GEO PhD Graduate, Dr. Meagan Harden (@meaganharden_)! Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to your research as well as to building our community over the past four years. We wish you all the best in your Post-Doc studies.
Congratulations to the Spring 2024 UHM GEO Masters Graduates! We appreciate all of your hard work throughout your studies and wish you the best in all your future endeavors. You will always be a part of the UHM GEO community. Mahalo!
Congratulations to this year's UHM GEO's Everett Wingert Scholarship Winner Honorable Mention recipient, Preston Varley, and the 2024 Everett Wingert Scholarship Winner, Sabrina Bruns.
Congratulations to this year's UHM GEO's Bowers Undergraduate Student Award winner (best graduating senior), Danielle Hewell, and Bowers Graduate Student Award (best graduate student), Foley Pflazgraf.
Join UHM GEO Master's student Ms. Amanda Lambert TODAY, Thursday, May 9th at 10AM in Saunders Hall room 442 for her thesis presentation. The thesis, " Tracking Wetland Dynamics: Remote Sensing and Deep Learning," discusses the importance of precise mapping of wetlands.
Congratulations to UH Geography and Environment Master's student LiEllen Rhame on the successful presentation of her thesis, "Thought for Food: The Chinese Cultural Relationship with Food and Animals".
Join UHM GEO Master's student Ms. Amanda Lambert TOMORROW, Thursday, May 9th at 10AM in Saunders Hall room 442 for her thesis presentation. The thesis, " Tracking Wetland Dynamics: Remote Sensing and Deep Learning," discusses the importance of precise mapping of wetlands.
Congratulations to this year's UHM GEO Outstanding Publication by a Graduate Student award winner, Kristen Sanfilippo , for her paper "Effects of systematic predictor selection for statistical downscaling of rainfall in Hawai'i" in the International Journal of Climatology.
At the AAG's annual conference, this year hosted by UHM GEO in Honolulu, members helped at “Dive the Earth Day” and, with Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau
and National Conference on Race and Ethnicity gave $20,000 to Kanu Hawai‘i. For more details: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2024/04/22/hawaii-news/regenerative-tourism-draws-groups-to-hawaii/
UHM GEO Professor Mary Mostafanezhad's Chiang Mai tourism research was recently cited in this article by NASA, "Hazy Skies in a Growing City". https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152635/hazy-skies-in-a-growing-city#:~:text=An%20array%20of%20research%20indicates,risen%20sharply%20in%20recent%20decades
Enjoy this article reflecting on 50 years of service as an ethnobotanist and environmental historian, UHM GEO PhD alumni and cooperating faculty member Professor Mark Merlin.
UHM PhD candidate Olivia Meyer is a finalist for the Student Employee of The Year (SEOTY) selected from over 3000 student employees at UHM for her work with the LuceSEA Field School Team in 2023. Congratulations and best of luck Olivia!
UH GEO Public Lecture: Today, April 30th @ 12P HST, 443 Saunders- “Assessing Tropical Forest Disturbance Dynamics Using Radar Satellite Data” by Dr.Johannes Reiches, Associate Professor of Radar Sensing at Wageningen University
