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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us Oct. 19 for an NSF-sponsored one-day workshop hosted by UH Geography Assistant Prof. Yuqin Jiang! Gain experience with Cyberinfrastructure and GeoAI tools for disaster management and sustainability. Scan the QR code to register by TODAY at 5 PM! 📅 October 19, 2026 📍 Physical Science 311

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happening TODAY! 🌏 Join us for the next Geography & Environment Public Lecture: “Toward an Everyday Spatial Agency: Technology, Mobility, and the Practices of Public Life” Scott Cloudwatcher, Uehiro Academy for Philosophy & Ethics in Education, University of Hawaiʻi 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 442

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder! 🌏 Join us this week for the next Public Lecture: “Toward an Everyday Spatial Agency: Technology, Mobility, and the Practices of Public Life” Scott Cloudwatcher, Uehiro Academy for Philosophy & Ethics in Education, University of Hawaiʻi 📅 October 1 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 442

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join us Oct. 19 for an NSF-sponsored one-day workshop hosted by UH Geography Assistant Prof. Yuqin Jiang! Gain experience with Cyberinfrastructure and GeoAI tools for disaster management and sustainability. Scan the QR code to register by Oct. 2 at 5 PM! 📅 October 19, 2026 📍 Physical Science 311

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

UH Geography professor Reece Jones recently joined the Think Back podcast to discuss the history and power of the U.S. Border Patrol. Listen to the conversation: www.thinkbackpod.com/p/the-terrif...

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reminder! 🌏 Join us TODAY for the next Geography & Environment Guest Lecture: “Developmental Suspension: Uneven Sovereignty and Urban Horizons Across US Territories and Freely Associated States in the Pacific” Ryan Centner 📅 Tuesday, September 15 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 442

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📚 UH Geography professor Reece Jones’s forthcoming book, Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees at America’s Northern Border, was featured by Publishers Weekly as one of its “Big Indie Books of Fall 2026.” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

UH Geography & Environment professor Marina Karides wrote a heartfelt essay for The Boston Globe, reflecting on her friendship with Sue Kim Hanson, who lost their life in the September 11 attacks 25 years ago. Read the essay here: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/04/m...

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Reflecting on a road trip, 25 years after 9/11 - The Boston Globe

We were neighbors and friends in Jamaica Plain, making our way to LA and our separate futures. Not long after, hers was cut short.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📢 Geography & Environment PhD candidate Michelle Harangody will give a talk Monday (9/14) at noon as part of the Pacific Islands Studies Occasional Seminar Series. 📍 Moore Hall 319 “Rendering Ecological: Federal Conceptualizations of Coral Reefs in the United States”

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🌊 UH Geography & Environment faculty co-authored a new report exploring water-related education and career pathways across the UH System and opportunities to strengthen pathways into wai stewardship careers. Read more: www.hawaii.edu/news/2026/08...

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Building Hawaiʻi’s next generation of water stewards | University of Hawaiʻi System News

A UH study identifies methods to better connect students with water-related courses, hands-on learning, mentors and employment opportunities.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 Check out the UH Geography & Environment Department’s Fall 2026 Guest Lecture Series schedule! We look forward to a great semester of talks and discussions. 🌎 geography.manoa.hawaii.edu/public-lectu...

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Public Lectures – Geography and Environment (GEO)

Fall 2026 Public Lecture Series Our geography public lectures feature a variety of local, national, and international speakers presenting topics from diverse di

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Last week, Geography & Environment faculty and graduate students gathered for new student orientation and a pau hana to kick off the semester! 🌺 We’re excited to welcome our new graduate students and look forward to a great semester ahead!

Current and incoming grad students on a campus tour

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🏃 This weekend, the Geography & Environment Department Run Club participated in the 2026 Honolulu Rainbow EKIDEN relay race! 🌈 Congratulations to everyone who ran or served as an alternate and represented the department!

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Congratulations to UH Mānoa Geography and Environment Assistant Professor Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, who has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 College of Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Social Impact! Congratulations, Aurora, on this well-deserved recognition!

Portrait of Dr. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, Assistant Professor in the UH Mānoa Department of Geography and Environment.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🗺️ UH Geography Assoc. Prof. Yuqin Jiang was a team leader in the I-GUIDE Summer School 2026: Spatial AI & Convergence Science, hosted by the University of Illinois. Her team developed a machine learning framework to study how urban environmental factors can influence human mobility patterns in NYC 🏙️

Summer School 2026: Spatial AI & Convergence Science Participants. Photo credit: Yuqin Jiang

I-GUIDE Summer School 2026: Spatial AI & Convergence Science team leaders. Photo credit: Yuqin Jiang

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

UH GEO MA student Kathleen Julca led her team Qochas Resilientes to win the MIT Climate & Energy Prize Student Innovator Award from MIT D-Lab The project supports climate resilience through community-led water management solutions based on traditional q’ocha designs 🌱💧 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/HHABFf7

Kathleen Julca giving award acceptance speech (c) Kathleen Julca

Qochas Resilientes team (c) Kathleen Julca

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🐘 New Publication 👏 UH GEO MA student Xiaoyun Neo has published an article in Forest and Society. Read “Elephant Economics and Agrarian Transitions: Conditions for Benefiting From Elephant Tourism Market in an Upland Karen (Paganyaw) Village” here 👉 scholarhub.unhas.ac.id/fs/vol10/iss...

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📣 This week in our Spring Seminar Series: Meagan Harden (UH GEO alum, Political Geographer & Public Historian) 📅 Thursday, April 16 | 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | Zoom registration 🔗 on request 'The Geoduck’s Garden — public storytelling in the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area'

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🥇 UH GEO grad student Xiaoyun Neo won 1st place in AAG's Animal Geographies student research competition for “Following the Elephant: Multispecies Livelihoods & Rural Livelihood Change in Upland Northern Thailand,” 🌏🐘 Congratulations! 👏 🎉

Title slide of Xiaoyun Neo's presentation at AAG with a background photo of an Elephant in Upland Northern Thailand landscapes

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

📣 Join us TODAY | Spring Seminar Series Prof. Jason K. Blackburn will talk about linking pathogen genetics and remote sensing to improve disease risk mapping, illustrated through anthrax 🦠 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | Zoom (registration 🔗 on request)

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🌱 New Publication 👏 UH GEO MA student Sophia Somerscales has published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing! Read “Crop presence and growth-stage mapping in a tropical smallholder setting in Hawai‘i with PlanetScope time series” here 👉 buff.ly/Dbbxyc2

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🏆 Another AAG student success story: UH GEO MA student Xiaoyun Neo received the Recreation, Tourism, & Sport Specialty Group Student Paper Award 🎉 Her award-winning paper is titled “Elephant Economics: Conditions for Benefiting from Elephant Tourism Market in an Upland Karen (Paganyaw) Village” 🐘

Title slide of Xiaoyun Neo's presentation at AAG

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

📣 Join us this week! 'Advancing Medical Geography: linking pathogen genetics with GeoAI and remote sensing' Prof. Jason K. Blackburn (Geography (Dept. Chair) / Emerging Pathogens Institute, UF) 📅 Thursday, April 9 | 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | Zoom (registration 🔗 on request)

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🏆 More AAG highlights: UH GEO MA student Fernando Lopez Oggier @flopezoggier.bsky.social received the Political Geography Student Travel Award to present “Queer Borderscapes: The Geographies of Border Internalization for Queer Latin American Migrants in Barcelona” at the AAG '26 Meeting in SF ✈️🌍️

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

⏰ Today at noon! Russell Fielding presents: Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🕛 12–1 PM Zoom🔗 available on request Tracing breadfruit’s path from Oceania to the Caribbean—and its role in sustainability today.

Book cover - Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

📢 This week: Russell Fielding, visiting author & CCU faculty 📅 Thursday, 4/2 | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders 443 (Zoom🔗 on req) Topic: Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree Tracing breadfruit from Indigenous Pacific cultivation through colonial plantations to today’s “superfood” revival.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🌿 UH GEO Lecture Series Join us next Thursday (4/2) at noon for a talk by visiting author & Coastal Carolina University faculty Russell Fielding! Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree 📅 Thursday, April 2 | 12:00–1:00 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (please request 🔗 to register for Zoom)

Cover of Book "Breadfruit: Three Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree"

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🏆 More great news for UH GEO PhD student Carter Beale! He’s also the 2026 AAG Hazards, Risks, & Disasters Specialty Group Gilbert F. White Thesis Award winner for his thesis work on collaborative, nature-based flood management in Hawaiʻi 🌊👏

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🎉 Congrats to UH GEO PhD student Carter Beale! He’s been awarded the 2026 Kem Lowry Scholarship (UHM CSS & DURP) 🏅 His research shows that solving environmental challenges goes beyond technical fixes—highlighting the importance of trust and inclusive governance across diverse communities 🌱

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

📣 New Publication 📝 UH GEO faculty Aurora Kagawa-Viviani and grad student Bryceson Tugade co-authored an article in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. The study, with UW Bothell and Mālama Maui Nui, discusses collaborative strategies to mitigate contamination exposure in communities. 🔗 👇️

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📰 In the news Inkstick: How Trump’s DHS Is Fighting to Pull Local Cops to Its Side UH GEO Prof Reece Jones says Border Patrol practices are appearing in major U.S. cities, where agents can “stop and interrogate pedestrians and vehicles at a lower standard than all other police.” 👉 buff.ly/5KLTCPm

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

TODAY at noon: Prof. Jason Edward Lewis talks about Reflections on the Challenges of Indigenous AI. Prof. Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer exploring computation as a creative and cultural material. 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 🔗 Zoom on request

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📰 In the news UH GEO Prof Reece Jones featured in The Christian Science Monitor. He notes that the current strategy of expanding immigration enforcement both at the U.S. border and interior at the same time seems “unprecedented.” Read more: buff.ly/8foX0rg

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Join us TOMORROW (3/12) for a special talk by visiting faculty member and Concordia University Professor of Computation Arts Jason Edward Lewis: Abundant Intelligences Year 03: Reflections on the Challenges of Indigenous AI 📅 Thursday, March 12 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 💻Zoom 🔗 on request

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🏛️🌎️ UH GEO MA student Xiaoyun Neo helped organize the EWC's 25th International Graduate Student Conference, featuring 140 grad presenters from 20+ countries across 30 panels. Xiaoyun also moderated a panel on "Indigenous and Decolonial Education Futures". 👏 Read her interview: buff.ly/LHdeEoo

Xiaoyun Neo at EWC-IGSC (second from left)

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🔥 UH GEO MA student Fernando Lopez Oggier @flopezoggier.bsky.social has published a new article in Territory, Politics, Governance Congrats, Fernando! 👏 🔗 Read "Itinerant deathworlds: Spanish border externalisation and the necroborder": buff.ly/PqwaZaY 📩 Or reach out for a PDF copy #Geography

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📣 Today | Spring Seminar Series Seth Quintus (Assoc. Prof., Anthropology, UH Mānoa) 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom (on request) Economic Gravities in Pre-Industrial Hawaiʻi — economic relationships, place-based management, and political change. Join us at noon!

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📃 UH GEO Prof. Marina Karides has published new work in Geohumanities, drawing on research conducted in Lesvos, GR🗺️ Read '"Sappho the Eresia:" Place-Making Through Graffiti and Sculpture in Skala Eresos' here 👉 buff.ly/FGIYidj

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

📣 Spring Seminar Series Seth Quintus (Assoc. Prof., Anthropology, UH Mānoa) 📅 Thursday, February 26 | 🕛 12–1 PM 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🔗 Zoom (on request) Economic Gravities in Pre-Industrial Hawaiʻi — economic relationships, place-based management, and political change.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

⏰ Today at noon! Leteisha Te Awhe-Downey presents: “Demystifying the Māori diaspora – Conversations with whānau (family)” 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🕛 12–1 PM Zoom🔗 available on request We hope to see you there.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🌴 Rooted in place Last December, UH GEO students, faculty, and staff came together at Lyon Arboretum to honor emeritus professor Lyndon Wester with the planting of a rare loulu palm and to celebrate the deep connections between geography, community, and place. Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/XW0n0BG

Lyndon Wester with the rare loulu palm. Photo credit Krisna Suryanata

CSS volunteers, including Geography students, faculty and staff, join Lyon Arboretum workers at a community service project in January 2026

Denise Eby Konan, UH CSS Dean, watering the loulu palm. Photo credit Krisna Suryanata

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

📢 This week: Leteisha Te Awhe-Downey, Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher & PhD candidate from Aotearoa, NZ. 📅 Thursday, February 19 | 🕛 12–1 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom🔗 on request) Join us for an exploration of Indigenous diaspora, identity, and healing through whānau stories.

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

📻️ Radio Interview 📣 UH GEO Prof Reece Jones was featured on Background Briefing with Ian Masters on KPFA. The conversation revolved around the current actions of the US border patrol and the implications of its historic and current scope of authority. 🎧 Listen here: kpfa.org/episode/back...

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Next in our Spring Seminar Series is Leteisha Te Awhe-Downey, Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher & PhD candidate from Aotearoa, NZ. Join us: 📅 Thursday, February 19 | 🕛 12–1 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom🔗 on request) Topic: “Demystifying the Māori diaspora – Conversations with whānau (family)”

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🎙️ UH GEO Prof Reece Jones was a guest on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 👏 The episode discusses the history and origins of the U.S. Border Patrol and the expansion of its authority within the 100-mile border zone and beyond. 🎧 Listen to the podcast episode here: buff.ly/c3j1cNo

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

UH GEO Prof. David Beilman is an author on a new study in Antarctic Science exploring how high evaporative conditions and topography shape Antarctic moss and water isotopes 🧊🌿 Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S095...

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

UH GEO Prof. Marina Karides has been invited to join the ACME Collective as an Editor 🌍✏️ ACME is a leading international journal advancing critical analyses of the social, spatial, ecological, and political—grounded in critical geographic scholarship 📚🌱 Learn more: acme-journal.org/index.php/acme

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

📣 New York Times Guest Essay UH GEO Prof. Reece Jones has published a timely opinion piece in the NYT. 👏 🔥 📰 “The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been.” Read it here 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

⏰ TODAY! Join us at noon! Geospatial Careers Panel 🌐 Hear from presidents of the HIGICC and HLSA (Clare Mamura, Beverly Pascual, Joey Furlett) about GIS career paths in Hawaiʻi and make connections. 📍 Saunders Hall 443 | 🕛 12 PM 🔗 Zoom on request

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Geography and Environment @ UH-Manoa @hawaiigeography.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📢 This week! Spring Seminar Series: Geospatial Careers Panel 🌐 Thinking about the Hawaiʻi job market or careers in GIS & surveying? This panel is for you. 📅 Thursday, Jan 29 | 🕛 12 PM | 📍 Saunders Hall 443 (Zoom link on request) With Clare Mamura, Beverly Pascual, and Joey Furlett (HIGICC and HLSA)

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