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    • Liliane Burkhard stands smiling next to her paper art installation that hangs from the booth frame at the conference
      News Planetary scientist selected as Artist in Residence at international conference
    • NewsAward 2025 Mānoa Awards honor faculty and student excellence, achievement
    • An artist rendering of what a future cosmic ray radar instrument could look like, attached to a satellite orbiting the Moon.
      News Innovative approaches advance search for ice on the Moon
    • Three elementary student competitors stand, smiling, at a table with their robot.
      News SOEST hosts robotics competition, hands-on activities at Onizuka Day of Exploration
    • Apr 16
      Event Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
      3:30 p.m. , Zoom/MSB 100
    • Earth and Planetary Sciences grad admissions Mar 28
      Event Earth Sciences Seminar
      11:30 a.m. , Zoom/POST 723
    • Artist's concept of the Lucy spacecraft approaching the bumpy surface of a Jupiter Trojan asteroid.
      News HIGP planetary scientist selected by NASA to join Lucy asteroid mission
    • Earth and Planetary Sciences grad admissions Feb 28
      Event Earth Sciences Seminar
      11:30 a.m. , Zoom/POST 723

    Associated Departments

    • Department of Earth Sciences Studying the composition and dynamics of Earth's interior and crust, and the processes that shape its surface.

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      Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) Conducting interdisciplinary advanced research, technology development, teaching, workforce training, and service focused on oceanographic, atmospheric, geophysical, geological, and planetary science...

    Associated Degrees

    • M.S. and Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences Graduate programs in Earth Sciences (ERTH) are focused primarily on learning advanced methodologies and critical thinking by conducting focused research...
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