Category: Maunakea

UH Hilo astronomy professor leads team that solves gravitational lens phenomenon

Posted on October 7, 2021December 17, 2025 by Staff

UH Hilo physics and astronomy students assisted with data analysis, observations, and obtaining spectroscopic measurements using telescopes from Gemini and W.M. Keck observatories.

Screenshot of the title page of video: E O I Ka Leo, Listen to the Voice, Maunakea Master Plan.

Weekly Newsletter for Faculty and Staff, Oct. 5, 2021

Posted on October 5, 2021October 30, 2025 by Staff

Featured in this week’s issue of Ha‘ilono o UH Hilo (News of UH Hilo): Bonnie Irwin, Carolyn Ma, Pua Auyong, Greg Chun, Doug Simons, John Burns, and Kekailiko Medeiros.

Small telescope atop Maunakea, in the snow.

UH Hilo to host public meeting on decommissioning teaching telescope, Sept. 22

Posted on September 17, 2021October 24, 2025 by Staff

The meeting will include a presentation and question and answer session with UH Hilo Center for Maunakea Stewardship Executive Director Greg Chun and officials with the consulting company hired for the project planning and design.

Public is invited to comment on Hōkū Keʻa telescope decommissioning process

Posted on September 10, 2021December 17, 2025 by Staff

The public is strongly encouraged to review official document and provide comments by October 8, 2021, as provided for in the Environmental Notice.

Large group of people gathered in outdoor setting. Banner: Kaliʻuokapaʻakai Collective, re-invisioning Wahi Kupuna Stewardship in Hawaiʻi.

UH Hilo alumna helps organize collaborative report on protecting ancestral sites

Posted on August 17, 2021December 17, 2025 by Staff

Kelley Lehuakeaopuna Uyeoka helped organize a large hui of cultural and scientific experts to develop new strategies in safeguarding Hawaiʻi’s cultural sites and practices. The newly published Kaliʻuokapaʻakai Collective Report is now released to the public.

Building made of lava rock, with rock walls surrounding the structure, with the sign: Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, Visitor Information.

Maunakea Visitor Information Station to reopen

Posted on July 13, 2021December 17, 2025 by Staff

The station has been closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning July 15, 2021, modified daily hours of 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m will be in effect until further notice.

New plantings on edge of parking lot. Visitor Center in background.

Native plant restoration project flourishing on Maunakea

Posted on June 2, 2021December 16, 2025 by Staff

The Center for Maunakea Stewardship’s plant restoration process starts with collecting seeds from established native plants in the area. There is now māmane and other native plants well established including ʻāweoweo, pawale, puakala and heʻupueo, a native grass.