#Somalia govt forces last week captured #ElBur, last district center in central #Galmudug region controlled by #AlShabaab, though they later retreated from other key towns in the area.
We are delighted to welcome two new faculty members, Dr. Pallavi Gupta and Dr. Orhon Myadar to UH Geography and Environment. Learn more about them on our department faculty page: https://geography.manoa.hawaii.edu/faculty/
@austinkocher@geography Cesar Caviedes, my Geography of South America professor, acknowledged that my interest in international migration was better suited for human geography, but advised me to approach it from demography through sociology. He correctly predicted the turn to remote sensing would drive funding in geography.
AAG Webinar today - August 24 at 3pm ET - Kumulipo: Hawaiian Explication of Creation. Explore The Kumulipo, the Hawaiian understanding of the world as interconnected and intimate across all forms of being and nature - https://www.aag.org/webinar/kumulipo-hawaiian-explication-of-creation/.
The first talk of our Fall 2023 public lecture series is from Dr. Budhu Bhaduri, the director of the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Bhaduri will give a talk titled, "Landscape Dynamics, Geographic Data and Scalable Computing: The Oak Ridge Experience," on August 28 (Monday) at 12pm in Saunders 443.