Geographer creates infographics on Puna lava flow
Mark Kimura, a researcher at UH Hilo who specializes in economic geography, is generating dozens of easy-to-read infographics showing the effects of the lava flow in Puna.
Category: Faculty
Helping maintain UH Hilo apiary teaches students importance of island’s bees
Two Hawaiian language students created a video on beekeeping done entirely in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language).
Column by UH Hilo plant pathologist Mike Shintaku: Organic and conventional agricultural systems can and do coexist
MICHAEL SHINTAKU, PLANT PATHOLOGY: At the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management at UH Hilo, we are concerned with food production and sustainability, and we value and promote all effective agricultural systems.
UH Hilo astronomy professor and his student test small telescope on Maunakea
This type of telescope, the CGEM-925-HD, is used in the UH Hilo astronomy program for training students on modern observing techniques.
Alice Davis receives UH Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching
Davis’s peers describe her as someone who cares “professionally and personally” for her students. In turn, her students are filled with passion for the field of nursing.
Globally recognized expert in environmental engineering joins UH Hilo faculty
Shihwu Sung left the comfort of his well-established and funded research program at Iowa State to move to Hilo to explore emerging alternative energy opportunities that he says will benefit the people of Hawai‘i and be sufficiently scalable to have a positive global impact.
UH Hilo welcomes new faculty to university ‘ohana
With this cohort, UH Hilo is expanding its expertise in priority disciplines such as mapping and geographic information systems, biomass to energy, island cultures, tropical alpine biology, cell mechanics, public health, oceanography and more.
UH Hilo researcher: Data show dire situation for community if lava flow cuts off lower Puna
Mark Kimura, a researcher in economic geography at UH Hilo, has generated data showing who, how many people, and what businesses could possibly be affected by the lava flow if or when it cuts off highway and then reaches the shore.
