Recent News & Announcements
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This Week’s Seminar: Why is Kilauea’s current eruption episodic?
September 16, 2026 11:30am POST 723 Helge Gonnermann Professor, Rice University Why is Kilauea’s current eruption episodic? Basaltic volcanoes erupt episodically as lava fountains, where fountaining episodes are separated by intervals of no eruptive activity. Rather than continuous lava effusion at rates that are in balance with magma supply, Kilauea volcano has erupted with episodic…
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Faculty search in paleoclimatology
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Study reveals Hawaiian hotspot is getting hotter
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San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1,000 years
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Scientists rush seismic sensors to Maunaloa after 6.0 quake
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UHM Earth Sciences Researchers Share Work at Back-to-Back Conferences
Members of the Department of Earth Sciences represented the department at two major geoscience conferences in Southern California in April, presenting research on volcanic systems and subduction zone hazards. The first stop was the Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual Meeting, held April 14-18 in Pasadena, California, which brought together seismologists from across the United…
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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