📣 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

🌿 This week's Fall Seminar Series! Leah Bremer (Inst. for Sustainability & Resilience | UHERO | WRRC) presents 'Toward more equitable and durable ecosystem investments: lessons from Andean water funds with implications for Hawaiʻi'💧 📅 Oct 16 | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

📣 TODAY 🎓 Join us for UH GEO PhD candidate Joan Pan’s dissertation defense! “Meanings of Tea: Nature, Well-Being, and Digital Culture” 🍵 🕘 9–11 AM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🎓 This week! 🎓 UH GEO PhD candidate Joan Pan will defend her dissertation: “Meanings of Tea: Nature, Well-Being, and Digital Culture” 🍵 📅 Wed, Oct 8 | 🕘 9–11 AM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🌱 UH GEO PhD student Hunter Heaivilin spoke with #CivilBeat about #Honolulu’s push to grow more food in public spaces. Read the full story 👉 www.civilbeat.org/2025/09/chan...

TODAY 📣 Our Fall Seminar Series speaker is Prof. Emeritus Thomas Giambelluca (UH Geography & Environment). Topic: How Fast is Hawaiʻi’s Climate Changing? 🏝️ 🌦️ 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🎓 Save the Date! 🎓 Join us for UH GEO PhD candidate Joan Pan's Dissertation defense next week! Title: Meanings of Tea: Nature, Well-Being, and Digital Culture 🍵 📅 Wed, Oct 8 | 🕛 9-11 AM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🏝️ 🌦️ Don’t miss the second talk in our Fall Seminar Series THIS WEEK! Prof. Thomas Giambelluca (Prof. Emeritus Geography & Environment, UH) will speak on: How Fast is Hawaiʻi’s Climate Changing? 📅 Thurs, Oct 2nd | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

📃 UH GEO PhD candidate Andrew Lewis has published an article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers! Read "Hydro-Ethnographic Applied Research (HEAR): An Approach to Support the Stewardship of Culturally Important Water Resources" 👉https://buff.ly/LkmM2zX Congrats, Andrew!

📣 UH GEO Prof. Emeritus Thomas Giambelluca will be the next presenter in our Fall Seminar Series! Join us: 📅 Thurs, Oct 2nd | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom link on request) Topic: "How Fast is Hawaiʻi’s Climate Changing?" 🌦️🌴

📖 UH GEO PhD candidate Tatsuki Kohatsu has published his work "Militarized Territoriality: Water Contamination and Military Operations in the Pacific" as chapter in Relational Geographies of Islands in the Indo-Pacific: Environment, Society, and Politics. Congratulations! 🎉 🔗 buff.ly/NFhZxKl

🌱 UH GEO Prof. Qi Chen’s AgriWatch project developed high-resolution satellite imagery to track shifts in Hawaiʻi’s crop production — and offers potential to assess and predict wildfire risk. Recently featured in the news: 📰 Read buff.ly/2mDH6JU 🎧 Listen buff.ly/H7LJDPJ

TODAY 📣 Our Fall Seminar Series kicks off at noon with Dr. Barbara Quimby (Assistant Prof. Marine Science & Policy, HPU). Topic: Participatory Approaches to Adaptive Water Governance in Arizona & Hawaiʻi 🌊 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

🎤 UH GEO Prof. Reece Jones will deliver the keynote at the 2025 SEAC Conference (Villanova Univ.) next month! His talk “Nobody is Protected: The Geography of the Border Patrol’s 100-mile Zone” connects to the theme “The Challenges of Migration in the 21st Century.” 🔗 www.seac-online.org/conferences/

🌊 Don’t miss the first talk in our Fall Seminar Series THIS WEEK! Dr. Barbara Quimby (Assistant Prof. Marine Science & Policy, HPU) will speak on: Participatory Approaches to Adaptive Water Governance: Arizona & Hawaiʻi 📅 Thurs, Sept 18 | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom link on request

✨ TODAY! UH GEO PhD student John Nightingale presents his dissertation proposal: “The Paradox of Impeded Support: An Analysis of Migrant Healthcare Inaccessibility” 🕐 1 PM HST | 🔗 Zoom link on request

Kicking off our Fall Seminar Series is Dr. Barbara Quimby, Assistant Prof. of Marine Science & Policy at HPU. Join us: 📅 Thurs, Sept 18 | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom link on request) Topic: “Participatory Approaches to Adaptive Water Governance: Arizona & Hawaiʻi” 🌊

TOMORROW 📣 Friday, September 12, UH GEO PhD Student John Nightingale will present his dissertation proposal presentation at 1 pm HST on Zoom (link available on request). Title: The Paradox of Impeded Support: An Analysis of Migrant Healthcare Inaccessibility

UH GEO Prof. Reece Jones was interviewed for the Better Tomorrow Speaker Series. Hear him discuss the politics of immigration under the second Trump administration here 👉 better-tomorrow-speaker-series.simplecast.com/episodes/ree...

UH GEO is hosting a Seminar Series this fall, featuring local, national & international speakers on a broad range of exciting geography-related topics. 🌐 Talks will be held Thursdays at noon (unless noted) in Saunders Hall 443 or via Zoom (link on request). Stay tuned for detailed topics & dates! 📆

UH GEO Assistant Professor Yuqin Jiang was an invited speaker at an NSF sponsored summer school for CyberTraining for Disaster Management at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. 👏 An important representation of GEO expertise on the national stage!

🎉 Congratulations to GEO PhD candidate Kawena Elkington, who received the Hawaii Pacific Foundation Doctoral Research Award of $16,000 from the East West Center to support her dissertation "Imagining Futures: Investigating Pathways for Transforming Economic Development in Hawaiʻi" 🎉

📝 ✨ New publication: UH GEO PhD candidate Olivia Meyer has published 'Turning waste into capital: revaluing plastics in Thailand’s circular economy' in the journal Globalizations. Read it here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C6R86...

📣 GEO MA graduate Laura Gilda was featured in a Honolulu Civil Beat Article 'Hawaiian Petroglyphs Reemerge Thanks To Changing Tides And Shifting Sands' last month. Read the article here: www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/hawa...

As the fall semester begins, we are excited to share that Prof. David Beilman will succeed Prof. Reece Jones as our UH Geography Department Chair! We are grateful to Prof. Jones for his dedicated service and look forward to Prof. Beilman's leadership in the years ahead.

We are looking forward to Fall 2025 at Saunders Hall! 🎓 🗺️ Stay tuned for summer highlights and fall semester updates from our UH Geography students, faculty, and alumni.

Did you realize that Hawaiʻi’s ‘Exceptional Tree’ Program reached 50 years of continued dedication? To learn more, check out this article in the Civil Beat by UHM GEO alum Myles Ritchie. www.civilbeat.org/2025/05/hawa...

Today is officially the last day of the Spring 2025 semester. UHM GEO thanks everyone for a wonderful year and wish you a fun, productive summer.

Learn more with UHM GEO Prof Emeritus Tom Giambelluca about Hawai'i Mesonet system for bringing to the public real-time weather information www.staradvertiser.com/2025/05/09/h...

Finals are underway and it is never too early to check out Fall 2025 UHM GEO offerings. Great selections combined with UHM GEO's dedication ZERO COST FOR TEXTBOOKS (over 95% have zero textbook costs associated) and, no question, they are worth checking out www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail....

UHM GEO Professor Tom Giambelluca was recently named GEO Emeritus. This flashback article, "Before Gore there was Giambelluca – Transforming Climate Science into Practical Knowledge," is a reminder of the meaningful impact of this work. socialsciences.manoa.hawaii.edu/before-gore-...

UHM recently released the course schedule for Fall 2025 with some particularly interesting GEO offerings. Combine that with UHM GEO's dedication ZERO COST FOR TEXTBOOKS (over 95% have zero textbook costs associated) and, no question, they are worth checking out www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail....

Congratulations to UHM GEO MA Student Korey Wetherell for being selected as a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow to complete PhDs from Lut University in Finland and RMIT University in Australia for the DREAM+PLAN Position DC4.

Summer is just around the corner. Think about taking a course and delving deeper into one of the many fascinating offerings. Check out the many options in UHM GEO with over 95% having ZERO COST FOR TEXTBOOKS for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Summer 2025 www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail....

Congratulations UHM GEO's Renee Setter on her successful doctoral dissertation defense of her work entitled, "The underestimation of projected effects of climate change on coral reefs."

TODAY in a hybrid format from Biomed T211 at 2PM, UHM GEO PhD student Renee Setter will defend her dissertation, "The underestimation of projected effects of climate change on coral reefs."

Join UHM GEO tomorrow at 2PM for UHM GEO PhD student Renee Setter dissertation defense, "The underestimation of projected effects of climate change on coral reefs." in a hybrid format from Biomed T211.

After nine weeks of intense preparation, UHM GEO Student William Duncan Miller came in second place in the Men's Physique Division in the Open and Novice classes during the April 18th Stingrey Classic,

Today is the last day of classes before finals and a great time to start looking ahead to summer. Check out the many options in UHM GEO with over 95% having ZERO COST FOR TEXTBOOKS for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Summer 2025 semester www.sis.hawaii.edu/uhdad/avail....