Amy Deatherage, Global Environmental Science major, was honored with an Undergraduate Poster Presentation Award in Marine Sciences at the SACNAS 2025 NDiSTEM Conference, the leading multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM conference in the country. Deatherage presented her work to characterize the aggregating behavior of ha‘uke‘uke–a native species of sea urchin in Hawai‘i. Her mentors are Kuʻi […]
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For Kelsea Kanoho Hosoda, receiving the American Indian Science and Engineering Society’s (AISES) Blazing Flame Professional Award marks a full-circle moment in her mission to uplift Indigenous students in STEM. The national honor recognizes her decades of work expanding opportunities for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students. “I’ve been a part of AISES since I […]
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With a focus on communicating science to children through holistic, age-appropriate storytelling, the Coastal Research Collaborative (CRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa developed an educational initiative for keiki that aims to foster a deep connection to the land and community. Helena Andrade, Earth Sciences doctoral student, created CRC Keiki, the educational offshoot of […]
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May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This is a time to reflect on and celebrate the important role that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) have played in American history, culture, and society. We pay tribute to the generations of AANHPI people who enriched America’s history and are instrumental […]
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This month, graduates of the Global Environmental Science (GES) undergraduate program at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa took with them a bachelor’s degree and real-world, hands-on experiences with research that benefits communities and ecosystems in Hawai‘i and beyond. Through the GES program in the Department of Oceanography at the UH Mānoa School of […]
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“In hindsight, my upbringing was full of environmental science: moon phases and tides, geologic processes, ecosystem structure,” said Aaliyah Thomas, who is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in environmental earth science in the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). “I was lucky to have been surrounded […]
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In preparation for the 2024 Olympic surfing competition, a new judging tower is being constructed in the reef lagoon at Teahupo’o, Tahiti. That construction poses a threat to the reef and its ecosystem, according to researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, UH Hilo, Arizona State University and community partners in Tahiti. Maile Alum Haunani Kane is one […]
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In Hawaiʻi and across much of Oceania, Pacific Islanders celebrate the connections between their islands and the ocean that surrounds them. “As descendants of the ocean, the dearth of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) in ocean science seems inconsonant,” writes a team of authors that includes University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa faculty, students, and […]
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Within the past five years, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) has grown exponentially. Currently composed of 36 masters and PhD students, a range of disciplines are represented such as astronomy, botany, computer science, Earth and planetary sciences, entomology, geography, linguistics, marine biology, oceanography, tropical plant […]
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Climate change in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Islands worsens inequities and threatens unique island ecosystems, cultural resources, human health, livelihoods, the built environment, and access to clean water and healthy food. These are among the findings of the U.S. National Climate Assessment, released by the Biden Administration which involved five University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers. The assessment concluded that […]
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