SOEST graduate student Kacie Kajihara was selected as this year’s Denise B. Evans Fellow. This fellowship will support Kajihara’s quest to better understand one of the most abundant marine microbes. Kajihara is pursuing a doctoral degree with the Marine Biology Graduate Program in Mike Rappé’s Aquatic Microbial Ecology Lab at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine […]
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In high school, Maggie Chen realized she had the power to choose a career that allowed her to fight for the environment she grew up loving. After graduating from Mililani High School, that passion and care brought her to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Global Environmental Science (GES) bachelor’s program. This past summer, Chen […]
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Two graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher with the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) were selected to be National Microbiome Data Collective (NMDC) Ambassadors of 2024. A highly competitive selection through the Department of Energy’s National Microbiome Data Collaborative program, the Ambassador Program utilizes a cohort-based learning […]
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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