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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 3d

📣 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

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 5d

🎓 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

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 8d

🌱 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...

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 9d

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

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 10d

🎓 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

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 12d

🏝️ 🌦️ 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

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 15d

📃 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!

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 16d

📣 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?" 🌦️🌴

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 19d

📖 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

Photo of a military helicopter in a snowy hangar (provided by T. Kohatsu)

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 22d

🌱 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

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 25d

🎤 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/

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 26d

🌊 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

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 29d

✨ 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

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Sep 11

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” 🌊

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Sep 9

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! 📆

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Sep 3

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!

Participants of the training workshop at Texas A&M University

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Aug 29

🎉 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" 🎉

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Aug 27

📝 ✨ 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...

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣 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...

A rock surface with Hawaiian Petroglyphs

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · May 22

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...

Civil Beat: Kapok King and Keeaumoku- "The Outdoor-Circle". Studying the tree

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