TGIF Seminars
Interested in learning about a wide range of earth sciences relevant topics and socializing with colleagues in our department community? Join us each Friday at 11:30 am for the ERTH Department TGIF Seminar!
Congrats to our HIGP colleagues on a successful launch of the Hyperspectral Thermal Imager (HyTI) satellite on March 21, aboard the SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS)!
UHM Earth Sciences ranks in the top 4% (No. 15 out of 396) of research institutions in the U.S., according to the latest National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Data, which measures research and development federal expenditures across a variety of disciplines.
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Hawaiʻi's Big Island on February 9th, centered on Mauna Loa's southern flank, 1.3 miles southwest of Pahala. EARTH Professor Dr. Helen Janiszewski , a seismologist that studies earthquake swarms on the Big Island, was interviewed by Hawaiʻi's Star Advertiser.
Its here ! Congrats to all on an inspirational 2022 and 2023.
Haunani Kane, Earth Sciences Assistant Professor, and Chip Fletcher, Professor and SOEST Interim Dean, were recognized in the “Distinguished Leader” category for demonstrating exemplary leadership in reducing climate-related threats and promoting adaptation of the nation’s natural resources.
Congrats to ERTH B.S. major Allison Yamakawa for receiving a 2023 NOAA Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship, which provides for 2 years of full-time study and a paid internship at a NOAA facility. Allison has workied with NOAA to create material showcasing the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
View Dr. Burkhard's presentation "Earthquake cycle stress accumulation disparities of the San Andreas Fault System in the Cajon Pass region, Southern California" at doi:10.22541/essoar.167642237.71480070/v1.
As the EARTH community tries to come to terms with the loss Professor Jasper Konter, we invite you to visit his In Memoriam webpage containing photos and memories of this fine friend, mentor, and colleague. If you would like to share a message or memory, please write Garrett Apuzen-Ito at earth@hawaii.edu.
In January 2022, the largest volcanic eruption of this century, which was submarine, led to a dramatic phytoplankton bloom north of the Tongan island of Tongatapu. Three scientists from UHM (CMORE's Benedetto Barone and Dave Karl, and Earth Sciences Prof. Ken Rubin), with a colleague from Oregon State University, recently revealed that the bloom of microscopic marine life covered an area nearly 40 times the size of the island of Oʻahu within 48 hours after the eruption.
Paul Wessel named American Geophysical Union's (AGU) 2022 Greg Leptoukh Lecture recipient, awarded by the Earth and Space Science Informatics section. They chose Paul because of his pioneering effort in developing widely used open-source software for the Earth science community, such as the globally recognized Generic Mapping Tools (GMT).
Rose Gallo, "The 2018 Eruption of Kilauea" and Liliane Burkhard, "Tectonics of Icey Worlds"