Department Features

• Student diversity
• Award-winning Faculty
• Engaging courses
• Placed-based learning in Hawai'i
• Cutting-edge facilities
• Recent Rankings: UHM is in the top 51-100 worldwide and No. 22 in the USA in both Geology and Geophysics
• Internationally recognized research in 4 divisions
• Geophysics and Tectonics ◆ Marine and Environmental Geology
• Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology ◆ Planetary Geoscience and Remote Sensing, hosted in HIGP

Mission Statement

• To identify and solve fundamental and applied problems in the Geosciences and Environmental Sciences; to acquire new knowledge about Hawaiʻi, the Pacific Basin, and Earth; to serve society by teaching and training future geoscientists, teachers, and citizens; and to be a principal resource for objective Earth science expertise to the state of Hawaiʻi.

Prospective Students

• Apply to our Programs
• Browse our course list in the UH Mānoa catalog.
• Explore ways we are striving to improve our community
• Graduate students and post-doc opportunitites (page content changes periodically).

Tenure Track

• Assistant professor with specialization in paleoclimatology TBA