Recent News & Announcements
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This Week’s Seminar: When Climate Change Events Enable Renewed Abundance: Lessons from Jellyfist at Hale o Meheanu Fishpond
May 1, 2026 11:30am POST 723 Candace Fujikane Professor, Department of English, Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa When Climate Change Events Enable Renewed Abundance:Lessons fromJellyfishat Hale o Meheanu Fishpond One of the unexpected effects of climate change is that events like pulse flooding can actually create the conditions for renewed abundance. Warming seawaters have…
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The 2025-26 Department Newsletter is out!
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UH Hilo and SOEST partner in $1.2M grant for coastal resilience
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Alumni Days – RSVP Now!
Please click on “Read More” to access the RSVP form for Alumni Days. Thank you!
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Earth Sciences is among UH’s top rankings in the 2025 Global Rankings of Academic Subjects: 17 in the U.S. and 51-75 worldwide
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Geophysical Field Work on Earth’s Largest Active Volcano
Geophysics graduate students assist with seismometer experiment to image magma within Mauna Loa.
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Monitoring hidden processes beneath Kīlauea could aid eruption forecast
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ERTH605 Lava Flow Rheology Field Trip 2025
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Ancient planetary splash that created the Moon may have formed Hawaiʻi too. –KHON2 News
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SOEST researchers contribute assessment of Hawaii’s geothermal resources to international Earth Science Week 2025
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Exploring Hawaiʻi’s Volcanic Landscapes: ERTH 300 Physical Volcanology Field Trips
This October, students in ERTH 300-Physical Volcanology joined two field trips to explore the volcanic features that shape the Hawaiian Islands.
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EARTH Researcher Explains Eruptive Conditions for Last Night’s Reticulite Lava Fountaining at Kīlauea
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Kīlauea geochemistry research in the news
Earth professor Aaron Pietruszka and colleagues recently published research of Kīlauea and Maunaloa magma sources in the Journal of Petrology: “Awakening of Maunaloa Linked to Melt Shared from Kīlauea’s Mantle Source”. Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, this research revealed that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes share a source of…
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2024 Earth Sciences Department Newsletter
Our Fall 2024 Newsletter, Nuhou Kānaka Puka, has arrived! Congrats to all on another inspirational year!
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Seamount named in honor of late Earth Sciences professor Jasper Konter
Jasper Konter, former professor of Earth Sciences, is recognized globally for his research in using isotope geochemistry and mantle seismology to confirm the deep origin of mantle plumes, to show that materials that were once subducted in the ancient geologic past are returned again to the surface by rising mantle plumes, and for establishing the…