📣 This week in our Spring Seminar Series: Meagan Harden (UH GEO alum, Political Geographer & Public Historian) 📅 Thursday, April 16 | 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | Zoom registration 🔗 on request 'The Geoduck’s Garden — public storytelling in the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area'

🥇 UH GEO grad student Xiaoyun Neo won 1st place in AAG's Animal Geographies student research competition for “Following the Elephant: Multispecies Livelihoods & Rural Livelihood Change in Upland Northern Thailand,” 🌏🐘 Congratulations! 👏 🎉

📣 Join us TODAY | Spring Seminar Series Prof. Jason K. Blackburn will talk about linking pathogen genetics and remote sensing to improve disease risk mapping, illustrated through anthrax 🦠 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | Zoom (registration 🔗 on request)

🌱 New Publication 👏 UH GEO MA student Sophia Somerscales has published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing! Read “Crop presence and growth-stage mapping in a tropical smallholder setting in Hawai‘i with PlanetScope time series” here 👉 buff.ly/Dbbxyc2

🏆 Another AAG student success story: UH GEO MA student Xiaoyun Neo received the Recreation, Tourism, & Sport Specialty Group Student Paper Award 🎉 Her award-winning paper is titled “Elephant Economics: Conditions for Benefiting from Elephant Tourism Market in an Upland Karen (Paganyaw) Village” 🐘

📣 Join us this week! 'Advancing Medical Geography: linking pathogen genetics with GeoAI and remote sensing' Prof. Jason K. Blackburn (Geography (Dept. Chair) / Emerging Pathogens Institute, UF) 📅 Thursday, April 9 | 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | Zoom (registration 🔗 on request)

🏆 More AAG highlights: UH GEO MA student Fernando Lopez Oggier @flopezoggier.bsky.social received the Political Geography Student Travel Award to present “Queer Borderscapes: The Geographies of Border Internalization for Queer Latin American Migrants in Barcelona” at the AAG '26 Meeting in SF ✈️🌍️

⏰ Today at noon! Russell Fielding presents: Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🕛 12–1 PM Zoom🔗 available on request Tracing breadfruit’s path from Oceania to the Caribbean—and its role in sustainability today.

📢 This week: Russell Fielding, visiting author & CCU faculty 📅 Thursday, 4/2 | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders 443 (Zoom🔗 on req) Topic: Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree Tracing breadfruit from Indigenous Pacific cultivation through colonial plantations to today’s “superfood” revival.

🌿 UH GEO Lecture Series Join us next Thursday (4/2) at noon for a talk by visiting author & Coastal Carolina University faculty Russell Fielding! Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree 📅 Thursday, April 2 | 12:00–1:00 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (please request 🔗 to register for Zoom)

🏆 More great news for UH GEO PhD student Carter Beale! He’s also the 2026 AAG Hazards, Risks, & Disasters Specialty Group Gilbert F. White Thesis Award winner for his thesis work on collaborative, nature-based flood management in Hawaiʻi 🌊👏

🎉 Congrats to UH GEO PhD student Carter Beale! He’s been awarded the 2026 Kem Lowry Scholarship (UHM CSS & DURP) 🏅 His research shows that solving environmental challenges goes beyond technical fixes—highlighting the importance of trust and inclusive governance across diverse communities 🌱

📣 New Publication 📝 UH GEO faculty Aurora Kagawa-Viviani and grad student Bryceson Tugade co-authored an article in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. The study, with UW Bothell and Mālama Maui Nui, discusses collaborative strategies to mitigate contamination exposure in communities. 🔗 👇️

📰 In the news Inkstick: How Trump’s DHS Is Fighting to Pull Local Cops to Its Side UH GEO Prof Reece Jones says Border Patrol practices are appearing in major U.S. cities, where agents can “stop and interrogate pedestrians and vehicles at a lower standard than all other police.” 👉 buff.ly/5KLTCPm

TODAY at noon: Prof. Jason Edward Lewis talks about Reflections on the Challenges of Indigenous AI. Prof. Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer exploring computation as a creative and cultural material. 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 🔗 Zoom on request

📰 In the news UH GEO Prof Reece Jones featured in The Christian Science Monitor. He notes that the current strategy of expanding immigration enforcement both at the U.S. border and interior at the same time seems “unprecedented.” Read more: buff.ly/8foX0rg

Join us TOMORROW (3/12) for a special talk by visiting faculty member and Concordia University Professor of Computation Arts Jason Edward Lewis: Abundant Intelligences Year 03: Reflections on the Challenges of Indigenous AI 📅 Thursday, March 12 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 💻Zoom 🔗 on request

🏛️🌎️ UH GEO MA student Xiaoyun Neo helped organize the EWC's 25th International Graduate Student Conference, featuring 140 grad presenters from 20+ countries across 30 panels. Xiaoyun also moderated a panel on "Indigenous and Decolonial Education Futures". 👏 Read her interview: buff.ly/LHdeEoo

🔥 UH GEO MA student Fernando Lopez Oggier @flopezoggier.bsky.social has published a new article in Territory, Politics, Governance Congrats, Fernando! 👏 🔗 Read "Itinerant deathworlds: Spanish border externalisation and the necroborder": buff.ly/PqwaZaY 📩 Or reach out for a PDF copy #Geography

📣 Today | Spring Seminar Series Seth Quintus (Assoc. Prof., Anthropology, UH Mānoa) 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom (on request) Economic Gravities in Pre-Industrial Hawaiʻi — economic relationships, place-based management, and political change. Join us at noon!

📃 UH GEO Prof. Marina Karides has published new work in Geohumanities, drawing on research conducted in Lesvos, GR🗺️ Read '"Sappho the Eresia:" Place-Making Through Graffiti and Sculpture in Skala Eresos' here 👉 buff.ly/FGIYidj

📣 Spring Seminar Series Seth Quintus (Assoc. Prof., Anthropology, UH Mānoa) 📅 Thursday, February 26 | 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom (on request) Economic Gravities in Pre-Industrial Hawaiʻi — economic relationships, place-based management, and political change.

⏰ Today at noon! Leteisha Te Awhe-Downey presents: “Demystifying the Māori diaspora – Conversations with whānau (family)” 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🕛 12–1 PM Zoom🔗 available on request We hope to see you there.

🌴 Rooted in place Last December, UH GEO students, faculty, and staff came together at Lyon Arboretum to honor emeritus professor Lyndon Wester with the planting of a rare loulu palm and to celebrate the deep connections between geography, community, and place. Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/XW0n0BG

📢 This week: Leteisha Te Awhe-Downey, Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher & PhD candidate from Aotearoa, NZ. 📅 Thursday, February 19 | 🕛 12–1 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom🔗 on request) Join us for an exploration of Indigenous diaspora, identity, and healing through whānau stories.

📻️ Radio Interview 📣 UH GEO Prof Reece Jones was featured on Background Briefing with Ian Masters on KPFA. The conversation revolved around the current actions of the US border patrol and the implications of its historic and current scope of authority. 🎧 Listen here: kpfa.org/episode/back...

Next in our Spring Seminar Series is Leteisha Te Awhe-Downey, Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher & PhD candidate from Aotearoa, NZ. Join us: 📅 Thursday, February 19 | 🕛 12–1 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom🔗 on request) Topic: “Demystifying the Māori diaspora – Conversations with whānau (family)”

🎙️ UH GEO Prof Reece Jones was a guest on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 👏 The episode discusses the history and origins of the U.S. Border Patrol and the expansion of its authority within the 100-mile border zone and beyond. 🎧 Listen to the podcast episode here: buff.ly/c3j1cNo

UH GEO Prof. David Beilman is an author on a new study in Antarctic Science exploring how high evaporative conditions and topography shape Antarctic moss and water isotopes 🧊🌿 Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S095...

UH GEO Prof. Marina Karides has been invited to join the ACME Collective as an Editor 🌍✏️ ACME is a leading international journal advancing critical analyses of the social, spatial, ecological, and political—grounded in critical geographic scholarship 📚🌱 Learn more: acme-journal.org/index.php/acme

📣 New York Times Guest Essay UH GEO Prof. Reece Jones has published a timely opinion piece in the NYT. 👏 🔥 📰 “The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been.” Read it here 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

⏰ TODAY! Join us at noon! Geospatial Careers Panel 🌐 Hear from presidents of the HIGICC and HLSA (Clare Mamura, Beverly Pascual, Joey Furlett) about GIS career paths in Hawaiʻi and make connections. 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🕛 12 PM 🔗 Zoom on request

📢 This week! Spring Seminar Series: Geospatial Careers Panel 🌐 Thinking about the Hawaiʻi job market or careers in GIS & surveying? This panel is for you. 📅 Thursday, Jan 29 | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom link on request) With Clare Mamura, Beverly Pascual, and Joey Furlett (HIGICC and HLSA)

Spring Seminar Series Kickoff: Geospatial Careers Panel 🌐 Interested in GIS careers in Hawaiʻi? Join us NEXT WEEK: 📅 Thursday, January 29 | 🕛 12 PM |📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom link on request) Featuring leaders from HIGICC & HLSA, with Clare Mamura, Beverly Pascual, and Joey Furlett.

📖 UH GEO Professor Reece Jones’ forthcoming book 'Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees at America’s Northern Border' (with Greg Boos) was named one of Inkstick Media’s most anticipated books of 2026. 🔥 👉 inkstickmedia.com/inksticks-mo...

“Hawaii is at a historic crossroads in its relationship with the U.S. military.” UH GEO alum and affiliate faculty Kyle Kajihiro authored a column in the Star-Advertiser. Read the article 👉 buff.ly/HO68ODO

UH GEO Professor Reece Jones is cited in a recent Inkstick Media article examining the long and often deadly history of anti-immigrant “invasion” rhetoric. Read the article here 👉 buff.ly/LRY1BH1

UH GEO affiliate Laurel Mei-Singh co-authored a Star Advertiser column: "Military leased lands must be cleaned, restored and put to uses that genuinely serve our communities — from sustainable agriculture and parks to affordable housing and cultural and environmental education." 👉 buff.ly/NDVHZ1o

📣 TODAY 🎓 Join us for UH GEO PhD candidate Tatsuki Kohatsu’s dissertation defense! “The Critical Geopolitics of Boundary-Making and Colonial Reproduction in the Ryukyu Islands” 🕚 11 AM | 📍 Saunders 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🎓 This Week! 🎓 UH GEO PhD candidate Tatsuki Kohatsu will defend his dissertation: “The Critical Geopolitics of Boundary-Making and Colonial Reproduction in the Ryukyu Islands” 📅 Wed, Dec 3 | 🕚 11 AM | 📍 Saunders 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🎓 Save the Date! 🎓 Join us for UH GEO PhD candidate Tatsuki Kohatsu’s dissertation defense next week! Title: The Critical Geopolitics of Boundary-Making and Colonial Reproduction in the Ryukyu Islands 📅 Wed, Dec 3 | 🕚 11 AM | 📍 Saunders 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

📚 Lecture Recording Now Available UH Mānoa Department of Educational Foundations has released the recorded lecture by Prof. Reece Jones on his book Nobody Is Protected. 🎥 Watch the full talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_DJ...

🌍✨ UH GEO candidate Kawena Elkington traveled to Belém to attend COP30 as one of five Hawai‘i student delegates supported by the UHM School of Law and GEE-21. Congrats, Kawena! More in the thread below ⬇️ 🧵

Don’t forget—GIS Day 2025 is tomorrow! 🌍 Register now to explore how GIS is used across research, teaching, and real-world problem-solving. 📅 Tomorrow, 11/19 | 9 AM–12 PM 📍 Hamilton Library, UH Mānoa See you there! 🔗 go.hawaii.edu/Yxm

THIS WEEK: Join GIS Day 2025! Explore the diverse applications of geographic information systems - open to all experience levels. 📅 Wednesday, 11/19 ⏰ 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 📍 Hamilton Library, UH Mānoa Learn, connect, and get inspired! 🔗 Registration & updates: go.hawaii.edu/Yxm

🏃🌎 Interested in exploring places, connecting with peers, and getting some exercise? Join the UHM Geography Run Club! All paces and experience levels welcome. If you want to join the next run, reach out to get details on upcoming meetups!

📣 TODAY 🎓 Join us for UH GEO PhD candidate Yuko Stender’s dissertation defense! “Potential for Coral Reef Recovery under Historical Runoff and Land-derived Sedimentation in Hawaiian Watersheds” 🪸 🕤 9:30 AM–12:30 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🎓 Coming up next week! 🎓 UH GEO PhD candidate Yuko Stender will defend her dissertation: “Potential for Coral Reef Recovery under Historical Runoff and Land-derived Sedimentation in Hawaiian Watersheds” 🪸 📅 Mon, Oct 27 | 🕤 9:30 AM–12:30 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🎓 Save the Date! 🎓 Join us for UH GEO PhD candidate Yuko Stender’s dissertation defense next week! Title: Potential for Coral Reef Recovery under Historical Runoff and Land-derived Sedimentation in Hawaiian Watersheds 🪸 📅 Mon, Oct 27 | 🕤 9:30 AM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

📣 TODAY! Fall Seminar Series with Leah Bremer (Assoc. Dir. Institute for Sustainability & Resilience | UHERO | WRRC) Topic: Toward more equitable and durable ecosystem investments: lessons from Andean water funds with implications for Hawaiʻi 💧 🕛 12 PM |📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request