(left to right) Joelle Kanoelani Mattos, Keanu Rochette-Yu Tsuen, and Ian Wynn

Graduate students awarded prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships

Three SOEST graduate students were selected for the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program with the National Science Foundation. The five-year fellowship provides three years of financial support inclusive of an annual stipend of $37,000. The purpose of the program is to broaden participation of the full spectrum of diverse talents in STEM and help ensure […]

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2024 ARCS awardees (clockwise from top left): Kekuʻiapōiula (Kuʻi) Keliipuleole, James Fumo, Zachary Fumo, Lucas Ellison, Blake Stoner-Osborne.

Graduate students awarded ARCS Foundation scholarships

The ARCS Foundation Honolulu Chapter selected five graduate students in the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) to receive ARCS Scholarships. At the 2024 ARCS Scholars Banquet on May 6, the foundation honored 20 UH Mānoa doctoral candidates who were named ARCS Scholars. The chapter kicked […]

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L to R: Sara Kahanamoku-Meyer, Camille Pagniello, Chris Wall

SOEST early career fellowship returns; Maile Mentor Sara Kahanamoku-Meyer one of three selected

The UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) has awarded Early Career Research Fellowships to three outstanding scholars: Maile Mentor Sara Kahanamoku-Meyer, Camille Pagniello, and Christopher Wall. Kahanamoku-Meyer, a specialist in place-based, ‘Ōiwi-led paleoecology, started October 2, 2023. They use paleoecology, applied through a kanaka ʻōiwi lens, to study the impacts […]

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Maile mentors and mentees observe the intertidal zone during the full moon. Credit: Kane, et al., 2023.

Ho‘okele ka Wa‘a: Re-calibrating the sail plan for Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders in ocean sciences

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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Keanu Rochette-Yu Tsuen

Connecting land, water, people—a throughline for Maile Mentor Keanu Rochette-Yu Tsuen

Upon graduating last week, Maile Mentor Keanu Rochette-Yu Tsuen could confidently say that he had seized every opportunity to have authentic, hands-on research experiences during his time as an undergraduate student at the University of Hawai‘i (UH). Rochette-Yu Tsuen grew up on the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, and moved to Hawai‘i for college, first […]

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