Quick Facts

People

  • 1210 Total Employees
    • 477 Professors, Researchers, Specialists, & Postdocs
    • 477 Professional and Technical Staff
    • 256 Graduate students
  • 219 Undergraduate students

Annual Budget

$142 Million

Rankings

Faculty Awards

  • 4 Members of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 5 Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 3 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 4 Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology
  • 8 Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
  • 14 Fellows of the Geological Society of America
  • 4 Fellows of the American Meteorological Society and 1 Rossby Medal recipient
  • 2 Alexander Agassiz Medal recipients
  • 1 Prince Albert I Medal
  • 1 Balzan Prize recipient
  • 1 Ian McHarg Medal in Geoinformatics from European Geosciences Union

Numbers

  • 15 Degree Programs (BA, BS, MS, MGeo, PhD)
  • >$2 Billion in total funding since School inception

New Infrastructure at SOEST

  • Renovated Pauley Laboratory at Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology; move-in 2015
  • New UH Marine Center at Pier 35; move-in 2015
  • Transmission Electron Microscope and Fixed-wavelength Ion Laser Lab; 2014
  • 6km depth capable ROV; 2013
  • C-MORE Hale; 2012

(Page last updated 05 Mar 2024.)