UH GEO professor Camilo Mora, PhD candidate Kira Webster, and MA alum Jackie Dean were among a group of volunteers who planted koa and wiliwili saplings in Wahiawa this past Saturday, December 2nd. This effort was part of Dr. Mora's Carbon Neutrality Challenge to plant 1 million endemic trees in Hawaiʻi. See @CivilBeat article here: https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/12/planting-1-million-trees-in-hawaii-begins-with-200-saplings/
UH GEO Professor Mary Mostafanezhad and Ph.D. alum Henryk Szadziewski have published a new article in the Transaction of the Institute of British Geographers titled, "A case for popular geoeconomics: Angelina Jolie, China, and the semiotic limits of the archive." Access the article here: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tran.12647
UH GEO MA student Tara Sutton is featured in the University of Hawaiʻi News for her involvement in the Red Hill Information Hub. Access the story, "Red Hill water data hub personal for graduate student," here: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/11/22/red-hill-data-sutton/.
AAG Webinar today, Friday, Nov. 17th at 11:00 am HST (4:00 pm ET) - UH GEO PhD candidate Tatsuki Kohatsu and PhD alum Kyle Kajihiro (Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at UHM) will be participating as panelists in today's webinar, "Troubling the 'American Lake': Archipelagic Perspectives on Militarization in Oceania." For more information and to register, visit: https://www.aag.org/webinar/troubling-the-american-lake-archipelagic-perspectives-on-militarization-in-oceania/.
HawaiiView has recently released a 30-m spatial resolution forest height map for the island of Maui (https://hawaiiview.org/data/l2fhm-maui/), predicted using Landsat-8 cloud-free mosaic and calibrated using airborne lidar data. This is an extension of the 30-m forest height map for Oʻahu (https://hawaiiview.org/data/l2fhm-oahu/) released two years ago. UH GEO Professor Qi Chen leads the project.
UH GEO is co-sponsoring an upcoming event at the East-West Center, "Reflections on Cross-Cultural Research and Methodologies," on Wednesday, Nov. 1st from 3pm HST. Anna Duerr (GEO MA student) and Dalilah Laidin (GEO PhD candidate) will be among the grad students who will present. Event details and registration to join online at: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/events/reflections-cross-cultural-research-and-methodologies.
Looking for a graduate program in Geography and Environment? GEO at UH Mānoa is a top program with faculty expertise in climate change, political ecology, and sustainability with an Asia-Pacific focus: https://geography.manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate/.
UH GEO professor Camilo Mora and his daughter will talk about their Carbon Neutral Challenge project at the Mālama Mānoa general membership meeting tomorrow, Oct. 11, 6PM at the Honolulu Japanese Seventh Day Adventist Church. Daniel Dinell, President of Trees for Honolulu's Future, will also speak at the event.
UH GEO affiliate faculty member Laurel Mei-Singh is giving a talk on campus this Thursday, Oct. 12 from 12:00 - 1:15pm HST in KUY 410. The title of Dr. Mei-Singh's talk is, "The political economy of environmental racism in Waiʻanae."
UH GEO PhD candidate Meagan Harden has a new article in the journal Political Geography titled "Unmade in America: The gendered politics of birth tourism in the United States," https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102972.