Public Lectures
Our geography public lectures feature a variety of local, national, and international speakers presenting topics from a diverse range of disciplines. All are welcome to attend.
Fall 2018 public lectures - Saunders 443, Thursdays at noon.
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| September 13 | Integrating innovative technologies and traditional approaches to study resident and migratory cetaceans | Lars Bejder, Director of Marine Mammal Research, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) |
| September 27 | Rituals of Protection: Competing Visions of Environmental Care at Mākua, a Site of Militarized Dispossession | Laurel Mei-Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| October 11 | The Material Politics of Production and Military-State Making in Myanmar | Kevin Woods, Visiting Scholar, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI |
| October 18 | Kanaka Hawaiʻi Cartography: Expanding Cartographic Perceptions of Reality | Renee Pualani Louis, Institute of Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas |
| October 25th | TBA | Carlie Wiener, Senior Communications Manager, Schmidt Ocean Institute |
| November 1st | Drought Impacts and Management in Hawaiʻi and the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands: A Multi-Sector Synthesis | Abby Frazier, Research Fellow, East-West Center |
| November 15th | Private interests in the public good: Financing climate change adaptation in the Ganges and Mekong Deltas | Kimberley Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University |
| December 6th | Governing fisheries for Transparency and Equity in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean | Katy Seto, Assistant Professor, Coastal Science and Policy Program, UC Santa Cruz |
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 4/26/18 | The Health Workforce in India | Victoria Fan, Office of Public Health Studies, Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 4/19/18 | Envisioning Decolonial Futures through Mixed Media Storytelling | Sarah Weibe, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 3/16/18 | Climate Change Impacts and Solutions: Finding the Accelerator Pedal | Chris Field, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment - 2018 Distinguished Speaker |
| 3/15/18 | 'Peace does not come from them': Divergent territorialities in Colombia's 'peace' conjuncture | Chris Courtheyn, Department of Urban Studies, University of the Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia |
| 3/8/18 | Road Chronicles: A Subaltern Travelogue from the Upper Himalayas | Anu Sabhlok, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali |
| 2/22/18 | Stories from Somalia from the Perspective of an Agronomist | Paul Porter, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota |
| 2/1/18 | Smallholder Agricultural Systems and Land Use Change: Research Updates and Future Directions | Lisa Kelley, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 1/25/18 | Coral reef and disaster risk management in the Caribbean | Johanna Forster, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia |
| 12/7/17 | Climate change, phenology & ecosystem processes: What we are learning from the PhenoCam network | Andrew Richardson, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University |
| 11/16/17 | The People of a Place versus the People out of Place: Ideas of Indigenous Territorial Sovereignty in the Nationalist Politics of Anti-immigration | Nandita Sharma, Department of Sociology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa |
| 11/9/17 | Monitoring & Diagnosis of Crop Growth Using Satellite, UAV and Near-Range Remote Sensing | Xia Yao, College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agriculture University |
| 10/19/17 | Developing novel agroecosystems: Can we have it all with collaborative geodesign and neo-domestication? | Michael Kantar, Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Bryan Runck, Department of Geography, Environment & Society, University of Minnesota |
| 10/12/17 | Making Wine and Making Places: Geographies of Wine | John Overton, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Studies, Victoria University of Wellington |
| 10/5/17 | The Tourism-Disaster-Conflict Nexus: Insights from the Asia-Pacific Region | Andreas Neef, Development Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland |
| 5/5/17 | Annual Geography Student Symposium | Md. Azmeary Ferdous Ferdoush, Heidi Needham, Emily Wright, Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, Henry Szadziewski, Olivia Kailani Marohnic, Katie Taladay |
| 4/14/17 | Kaluʻulu - The Ancient Kona Breadfruit Belt | Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 3/23/17 | Climate Change Adaptation and Building Resilience in South and Southeast Asia | Keith Bettinger, Capacity Building Team Leader, USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific Project |
| 3/16/17 | Island Geopolitics: Hawaiʻi, Greenland, and the History of National Security in the Age of Climate Change | Dawn Berry, ORISE Fellow at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and Visiting Scholar with the Department of History at Cornell University |
| 3/9/17 | Earth Observations for Forest Sustainability During the Sixth Extinction (pdf) | Greg Asner, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, and in the Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University - 2017 Distinguished Speaker |
| 2/23/17 | Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move - Book Launch | Reece Jones, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 2/9/17 | Reconnecting with Ancestral Places | Katrina-Ann R. Kapāʻanaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira, Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language within Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 12/1/16 | Beyond Oceania: Area Studies and Remapping China and the Pacific | Terence Wesley-Smith and Alexander Mawyer, Center for Pacific Island Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Co-sponsored by the Center for Pacific Island Studies |
| 11/17/16 | Mapping Hawaii's Agricultural Footprint: Emerging Trends in Hawaii's Rural Land Use | Jeffrey Melrose, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hilo - Co-sponsored by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning |
| 11/4/16 | Food and Power in Hawaiʻi: Roundtable Discussion and Book Launch | Aya Hirata Kimura, Krisna Suryanata and additional contributors, Departments of Women's Studies and Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies |
| 10/28/16 | On Landesque Capital: The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications | N. Thomas Hakansson, Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - This Department of Anthropology Seminar is being Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography |
| 10/6/16 | It Begins with the Bombs: Tourism and Performative Violence in Vietnam | Jamie Gillen, Department of Geography, National University Singapore |
| 9/29/16 | Shifting Borders and Shifting Identities: The Geopolitics of Identity in Postwar Okinawa | Takashi Yamazaki, Department of Geography, Osaka City University |
| 5/6/16 | Annual Geography Student Symposium | Dylan Beatty, Md. Azmeary Ferdoush, Abby Frazier, Marie McKenzie, Kathryn Metzker, Kevin Morris, Heidi Needham, Rob O'Connor, Sayaka Sakuma, Alessandra Shea |
| 5/4/16 | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Nicolas J. Cullen, Department of Geography, University of Otago |
| 4/28/16 | Does commodity certification alter land cover trajectories? Examining how the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil affects deforestation in Southeast Asia | Kimberly Carlson, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 4/14/16 | A People's Geography of American Empire: Teaching About Imperial Places | Dr. Zoltán Grossman, Geography and Native American & World Indigenous Peoples Studies at the Evergreen State College |
| 4/7/16 | Beyond Oceania: Area Studies and Remapping China and the Pacific | Terence Wesley-Smith and Alexander Mawyer, Center for Pacific Island Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Co-sponsored by the Center for Pacific Island Studies |
| 3/11/16 | Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship & Activism: After Muddyin the Waters | Richa Nagar, Geography, Environment, and Society, The University of Minnesota - Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Rama Watumul Collaborative Lecture Series |
| 2/25/16 | Lives versus Livelihoods? Fumigants, Farmworkers, and Biopolitics in California's Strawberry Industry (pdf) | Julie Guthman, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz - 2016 Distinguished Speaker |
| 2/22/16 | A Geospatial Cyber-Knowledge-Infrastructure to Support Polar Sciences | Wenwen Li, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, University of Arizona |
| 2/11/16 | NRCS Geospatial Data and Tools: Acquisition, Customization & Application | Amy Saunders Koch, United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, GIS Specialist/Resource Soil Scientist |
| 12/10/15 | Assessing Cumulative Social-Ecological Vulnerabilities at the Regional Scale | Tim Smith, Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia |
| 12/3/15 | A Long-Term Perspective on Fire in Eastern Australia: Lessons for Contemporary Natural Resource Management | Scott Mooney, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Australia |
| 11/5/15 | Ecohydrology and Its Application to Aquatic Ecosystems at the Landscape Scale | Yin-Phan Tsang, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/27/15 | Spiriting Away the Homeless: Cambodia's New Apocalypse | Simon Springer, Department of Geography, University of Victoria |
| 10/22/15 | Earth Writing | Simon Springer, Department of Geography, University of Victoria |
| 10/15/15 | Hurricane Katrina's Bio-Temporalities | Michael Shapiro, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/8/15 | Adjuncts of Empire: The EFEO and the Conservation of Cham Antiquities | Bill Chapman, Department of American Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/1/15 | Biogeography and Geomatics of Tropical Marine Ecosystems: Incorporating Geographic Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology, Fisheries Assessment, and Climate Change Science | Erik Franklin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
| 9/24/15 | On Stormy Seas: War, Geopolitics, and Identity Formation in Okinawa | Kyle Kajihiro, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 9/15/15 | Climate Change Studies over the United States based on High Resolution WRF Model Simulations | Roy Rasmussen, Senior Scientist and Section Head of the Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, NCAR |
| 9/3/15 | Ethnographic Research: At Home and in the Field in Asia and the Pacific Islands, Roundtable Discussion | Suzanne Finney, Mary Mostafanezhad, Guido Pigliasco, and Forrest Young, together with 9 additional contributors to the At Home and in the Field volume (including geographers Hong Jiang and Keith Bettinger) - Interdepartmental sponsorship (e.g. geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, ethnic studies, Pacific Island Studies), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 4/30/15 | Inaugural Geography Student Symposium | D. Beatty, A. Frazier, R. Geronimo, A. Hedgpeth, L. Kaiser, K. Kajihiro, M. Lindquist, J. Sanchez, B. Schrager, A. Shea, H. Strasser, M. Tardona |
| 4/30/15 | Human Well-being in Natural Resource Management and Conservation: Status and Challenges | Supin Wongbusarakum, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
| 4/16/15 | Feeding the Dragon: China and Natural Resource Development in Oceania | Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 4/9/15 | Revolution in a Rice Field: The Radical Geography of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, 1975-1979 | Jonathan Padwe, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 4/2/15 | Physics Wins, Biology is How it's Done: An Exploration of Ecosystem-Atmosphere Interactions (pdf) | Dennis Baldocchi, Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley - 2015 Distinguished Speaker |
| 3/5/15 | Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2 | John Lynham, Department of Economics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 2/26/15 | Ahupuaʻa and the State Commission on Water Resource Management | Kamana Beamer, Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and the School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 2/20/15 | Landscape Research in Slovenia | Mimi Urbanc, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| 2/19/15 | The Plant-Soil-Atmosphere System in a Changing World - Research Highlights from Work on Vegetation Fires, Chronic Nitrogen Deposition and Summer Drought in Switzerland | Michael W.I. Schmidt, Department of Geography, Soil Science & Biogeochemistry, University of Zurich - Co-Sponsored with the Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Management |
| 2/5/15 | On the Ecological Effects of Harvesting Non-Timber Forest Products by Local Communities: Going Beyond Classical Approach | Orou Gaoue, Department of Botany, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 1/29/15 | Owning the World of Ideas | Debora Halbert, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 12/5/14 | Past, Present and Future Dynamics at Upper Limit of Cloud Forest: The Role of Moisture and El Nino | Shelley Crausbay, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University |
| 11/20/14 | Origins of Tropical Marine Biodiversity: The Phylogeographic Perspective | Brian Bowen, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology |
| 11/13/14 | Emily Coffey, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Ashville | |
| 11/6/14 | The Spatial Dynamics of Residential Settlement in Hanga Ho'onu, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) | Mara Mulrooney, Bishop Museum |
| 10/23/14 | The Italian Mountain: 60 Years Of Change, Challenges and Gaze at K2 | Kathryn Besio, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo - Guido Carlo Pigliasco, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Joy Logan, Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Suzanne Finney, Department of Social Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi, West Oahu - Guy Sibilla, freelance travel photographer |
| 10/16/14 | People, Fire and Changing Landscapes: Applying Global Pyrogeography to Understand Contemporary Fire Regimes in Hawaiʻi | Clay Trauernicht, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/2/14 | Greater Sensitivity to Drought Accompanies Maize Yield Increase in the U.S. Midwest | Michael Roberts, Department of Economics & Sea Grant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 7/16/14 | Seeds, Sunshine and Struggle: Understanding Global Seed Research in Chile | Annabel Ipsen, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Geography |
| 5/6/14 | Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity and Cultural Heritage in Hawaiʻi, California and Australia | Andrew Warren, University of New England |
| 4/25/14 | Forty Days on the Antarctic Peninsula Melting Back and Greening Up | David Beilman, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography |
| 4/3/14 | Solar Radiation in Hawaiʻi: Evidence of a Changing Climate | Ryan Longman, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi |
| 3/20/14 | The Practice and Politics of Scaling up Marine Governance | Leila Sievanen, Anthropologist, Joint Institute for Atmospheric and Marine Research in Honolulu |
| 2/26/14 | The First Agrarian States: The Late Neolithic Multispecies Resettlement Camp | James C. Scott, Department of Political Science, Yale University |
| 2/20/14 | Identity Politics in Post-Soviet Borderlands: A Case Study of the Estonian-Russian Border | Robert J. Kaiser, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin - Co-Sponsored by the Russian Collections, UH Library |
| 2/6/14 | Spaces of Trust: A Critical Geographical Analysis of South Korea's Trustpolitik | Ethan Yorgason, Associate Professor at Kyungpook National University, Korea |
| 1/30/14 | The Redevelopmental State: Governing Dispossession through Desire and Difference in Mumbai | Sapana Doshi, Assistant Professor, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona - Cosponsored the Center for South Asia Rama Wattumull Collaborative Lecture Series and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning |
| 1/23/14 | High-Resolution Digital Mean Climate and Evapotranspiration Maps of Hawaiʻi | Thomas Giambelluca, Professor, Department of Geography |
| 10/25/13 | Plant Community Ecology Goes Underground: Putting Mycorrhizae on the Map | Nicole Hynson, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/10/13 | The Toilet Tripod: Understanding Successful Toilet Adoption in Rural India | Elizabeth Louis, Postdoc, Texas A&M University |
| 9/26/13 | Estimation of Surface Heat Fluxes and Vegetation Dynamics via Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Data | Sayed Bateni, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| 9/19/13 | Emotional-apps.com: a Start-up Blending Emotional Intelligence, Mobile Devices, and GIS Technology | Francisco Ramos, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University Jaume I |
| 4/18/13 | Island Vulnerabilities | John Campbell, Associate Professor, Geography Programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand |
| 4/4/13 | Patterns of Wastewater Infrastructure Across a Metropolitan Coastal Region | Danielle Spirandelli, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban & Regional Planning & SeaGrant Affiliate, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 3/14/13 | Spatial Autocorrelation is Everywhere | Daniel Griffith, Ashbel Smith Professor of GIS, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas |
| 3/13/13 | Enchanting the Desert: Henry Peabody's 1902 Narrated Slideshows of the Grand Canyon | Nicholas Bauch, Lecturer, Stanford University |
| 3/12/13 | From Cultural to Perceptual to Humanist Geography | Yi-Fu Tuan, Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 3/7/13 | Orthoimagery for Hawaiʻi and the US Pacific Basin | Anthony Kimmet, Acting National Imagery Leader, USDA-NRCS-National Geospatial Management Center |
| 2/28/13 | Forest and Water in East Asia - In Japan and Surrounded Countries | Kyoichi Otsuki, Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University |
| 2/7/13 | Starting Small but Starting Loud: Catalyzing Community Based Management of Small-Scale Fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean | Kirsten Oleson, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 11/15/12 | The Digital Age Reinvents Spatial Technology | Craig Clouet, HIGICC (Hawaiʻi Geographic Information Coordinating Council) President |
| 11/8/12 | Tourism, Entrepreneurialism and the Rural-Urban Interface in Post-Socialist Vietnam. | Jamie Gillen, Assistant Professor, Geography, National University of Singapore |
| 11/1/12 | Death by 1000 Cuts: Decentralization and Road Construction at Sumatra's Kerinci Seblat National Park | Keith Bettinger, Ph.D. student, Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/11/12 | Effects of Pixel Deformation and Mis-registration on Cross-calibration of Vegetation Index Data Records | Tomoaki Miura, Associate Professor, NREM, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 9/28/12 | Book Launch - Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel | Reece Jones, Associate Professor, Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 9/20/12 | Militarization, Resistance and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific | Sasha Davis, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo |
| 9/13/12 | The Weather on Mars | Kevin Hamilton, Professor, Department of Meteorology and International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 9/6/12 | New Latitude Wines: Conceptualising the Development of the Thai Wine Industry | Glenn Banks, Associate Professor, Development Studies Programme, Massey University, New Zealand |
| 4/12/12 | Rainfall in Hawaiʻi: Month-year Maps and Trend Analysis from 1920-2007 | Abby Frazier, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 4/5/12 | Colonial Urban Development and the Making of Modern Disasters | Andrew Rumbach, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 3/8/12 | Pacific Antagonisms: Conflicts Over Environmental Governance in New Caledonia | Leah Horowitz, Department of Geography, Hawaiʻi Pacific University |
| 2/16/12 | Islands Are the New Continents | Jonathan Price, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo |
| 2/7/12 | Addressing Spatial Data Uncertainty in Land Use Planning | Alan Murray, School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, Arizona State University |
| 1/26/12 | Can Tiger, Pandas, and People Coexist? The Role of Geographers in Coupled Human-Natural Systems Modeling | Ashton Shortridge, Department of Geography, Michigan State University |
| 1/19/12 | Island to Island, Global to Local: Whiteness and Puerto Rican Migration to Hawaiʻi | Ines Miyares, Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York |
| 1/12/12 | Towards Finding the World's Most Endangered Forest | Thomas Gillespie, Department of Geography, UCLA |
| 12/9/11 | Are Creative Workers Happier? Evidence from China | Jessie Poon, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo-SUNY |
| 12/1/11 | Evolutionary Biogeography of the Red Pencil Urchin in Hawaiʻi | Stacy Jørgensen, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 11/16/11 | Vertically Challenged - Climate Change in the Third Dimension | Henry Diaz, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 11/10/11 | Religion and the Ideology of Urban Governance: Ahmedabad City, India | Ipsita Chatterjee, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies |
| 10/27/11 | Translating Research into Better Decisions about Risk | Melissa Finucane, East-West Center |
| 10/20/11 | Managing Marine Fisheries as a Social-Ecological System | Steven Gray, Department of Natural Resources, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/13/11 | Feral Pig Management in Texas: A Landscape Genetics Approach | Johanna Delgado-Acevedo, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 9/15/11 | Public Acceptance of Wind Energy: Does Perceived Fairness of Process Matter? | Jeremy Firestone, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and the Center for Carbon- Free Power Integration, University of Delaware - Co-Sponsered by the Graduate Ocean Policy Program |
| 4/19/11 | Scales of Security at The Boundaries of Neoliberalism | Rupal Oza, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York - Co-sponsered with the Watumull collaborative lecture series, Center For South Asian Studies and Department of Women's Studies |
| 3/3/11 | Sediment Dispersal from Pacific Rim Steeplands to the Coastal Ocean | Dr. Dr. Basil Gomez, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 2/12/11 | My Study of Isabella Bird | Kiyonuri Kanasaka, Professor of Geography, Kyoto University |
| 12/2/10 | Remote Sensing Techniques for Classifying the Habitat of an Endangered Bird Species on Mauna Kea | Ryan Riddle, Graduate student, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 11/18/10 | Encounters, Norms and Crowding in Marine Recreation: Applications at the Molokini Shoal MLCD | Dr. Brian Szuster, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 11/4/10 | Impacts of Rising Temperature on Carbon Input, Allocation and Storage in Tropical Wet Forests | Dr. Creighton Litton, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 10/21/10 | Ecotipping Points: Levers for Turning Decline to Restoration – Disseminating the Lessons from Environmental Success Stories | Dr. Gerry Marten, Adjunct Senior Fellow, East-West Center |
| 9/23/10 | Eating Hawaiʻi: Local Foods and Place-Making in Hawaiʻi Regional Cuisine | Dr. Kathryn Besio, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo |
| 3/29/10 | Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for IPCC-AR5 | Dr. George Hurtt Associate Professor Department of Community and Ecosystems Ecology University of New Hampshire |
| 2/19/10 | Broken Windows Policing and the Geopolitics of Ungoverned Space | Dr. Katharyne Mitchell, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Washington - Co-hosted with Political Science |
| 2/19/10 | Between the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Global Health | Dr. Matthew Sparke, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Washington - Co-hosted with Political Science |
| 2/11/10 | The Empirical Writes Back: Re-examining Dispossession Resulting from the Māhele of 1848 | Donovan Preza, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 1/28/10 | Masked by the Tiger: A Study of Rural Livelihoods and Conservation Values in Northeast India | Sugato Dutt, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 1/28/10 | Adjudicating Modern Water Under Ancient Rules: An Instance of 'Translation Between Two Laws' in Kona, Oʻahu | Leandro Romero, MA Student, Department of Geography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 11/12/09 | Gray Wave of the Great Transformation: A Satellite View of Urbanization, Climate Change, and Food Security | Dr. Marc Imhoff, NASA Goddard Research Center - Co-hosted with the Bishop Museum, Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture |
| 10/29/09 | Japanese Women's Networks in Honolulu | Dr. Honami Kageyama, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan |
| 10/22/09 | Kalimantan's Agrarian Transitions, 'New Poverty' and the World Economic Crisis | Dr. Lesley Potter, Associate Professor of Geography, Australian National University - Co-hosted with the East-West Center |
| 10/15/09 | Expansion of Rubber (Hevea Brasiliensis) in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia and Implications for the Environment and Human Livelihoods | Dr. Jefferson Fox, Senior Fellow, East-West Center |