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  • This Week’s Seminar: Lightning Talks – Early Career Edition

    February 6, 2026      11:30am        POST 723 Lightning Talks EARTH and HIGP, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Early Career Edition Come join us for a special edition of our Lightning Talks! EARTH and HIGP Students and Postdoctoral Researchers give us a tour of their exciting science being done at our departments at…lightning speed.

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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…

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