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students on a field trip to SE oahu

Spring 2022 Courses

ERTH students exploring basalt outcrops at Wawamalu Beach, Southeast Oahu.

volcanologist working on an active lava flow

ERTH News

Professor Bruce Houghton sampling lava from the 2018 Kīlauea eruption.

students on a field trip to Hanauma Bay

Spring 2022 TGIF Seminars

Professor Julia Hammer and ESVI REU students exploring East Oahu geology.

Beach and coral reef in the northwest Hawaiian Islands

ERTH field trip to Kūpuna Islands, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

students on a field trip to Death Valley

Giving to ERTH

ERTH 305 (Geologic Field Methods)students enjoying field camp in the Mojave Desert.

students on a field trip Windward Oahu

EPʻIK Summer high school students, with Professor Scott Rowland, on a field trip to Windward Oahu.

students and kayaks on a coastal geology field trip

ERTH 420 (Beaches, Reefs, and Climate Change) students, with Professor Chip Fletcher, on a field trip to the Mokulua Islands.

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