IN THE SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MANOA

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The department offers a wide range of active, extramurally-funded, research and study programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The department has a reputation for high quality faculty, research facilities, and opportunities in the Earth, Ocean, and Space sciences. Within the department, general areas of research are divided between three broad divisions.

Divisions

The department is organized into three divisions:

Themes

Our geographic location in the midst of the Pacific Ocean and the rich geologic setting of Hawai‘i provide a natural focus for research programs in:

  1. Composition and dynamics of Earth’s deep interior
  2. Formation, motion and recycling of Earth’s crust (the rock cycle)
  3. Earth’s surface: water, sediments, and life
  4. Earth history
  5. Earth hazards, resources and sustainability
  6. The Solar System

Facilities

The department has most of it's labs, classrooms and computing assets in the POST building on the UHM campus. Many students and faculty also conduct research out in the field, with mobile infrastructure and assets.





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News and Announcements

Seminars: TGIF Schedule

Fall 2013: Class Availability
Fall 2013: Draft Weekly Schedule

Spring 2014: Draft Weekly Schedule

5 Yr Draft Department Course Schedule By Class

Apply for Bullard Fellowship
Applications Due February 15, 2013

Photo of Thais Freda Bullard and her father, Fred Mason Bullard $1.8M Fred M. Bullard Graduate Fellowship has been Endowed. See the UH press releaseand the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Download the department’s 2013 Alumni Newsletter (PDF).

More news and announcements are in the SOEST Bulletin.

SOEST 2013 Open House
Oct. 25, 8:30am - 2pm
Oct. 26, 10am - 2pm

Click here for more information: SOEST Open House