<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The <a href="http://www.geography.hawaii.edu/"> <b><span style="color:#0433FF">Department of Geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa</span></b></a> has funded MA and PhD student positions available for graduate study. </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The department is comprised of a mix of energetic young faculty and established scholars that are at the cutting edge of research in their fields. Faculty members regularly publish in leading disciplinary journals and have extramural projects funded by federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Fulbright. The faculty’s expertise, and the department’s physical setting, makes UH an ideal location for marine, coastal, climate, ecosystem, tourism, geopolitics, agriculture, and Asia-Pacific focused research projects. </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We offer M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental/physical geography, human geography, and geographic technologies. Over 500 MA and PhD graduates from our program have pursued careers in academia, government service, NGOs, and in the private sector. The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is the only research intensive (R-1) university in Hawai‘i and one of only a handful of land grant, sea grant, and space grant universities in the United States. The Department of Geography celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2012 and currently has fourteen faculty members with expertise across the breadth of the discipline. </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The MA and PhD application deadline is<b> <u>January 15<sup>th</sup></u> </b>to enroll in Fall 2016. </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Our department website (<a href="http://www.geography.hawai"><span style="color:#0433FF">www.geography.hawaii.edu</span></a>) has detailed information on the application process. For informal inquiries, please contact Graduate Chair Qi Chen at <a href="mailto:qichen@hawaii.edu"> <span style="color:#0433FF">qichen@hawaii.edu</span></a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Department faculty expertise</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (full listings available <a href="http://www.geography.hawaii.edu/faculty.html"><span style="color:#0433FF">here</span></a>):</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">David Beilman</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Biogeography, Climate Change, Wetlands Ecosystems</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Qi Chen</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Science, Vegetation</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thomas Giambelluca</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Climatology, Ecohydrology</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hong Jiang</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Cultural geography, Natural-culture relationships, China</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Reece Jones</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Political Geography, Borders, Globalization, South Asia</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mary McDonald</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Economic Geography, Social Theory, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Matthew McGranaghan </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cartography, GIS, Remote Sensing </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Camilo Mora</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Human Impacts on Marine Environments, Biodiversity</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mary Mostafanezhad </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Development, Humanitarianism, Popular Culture, Tourism, Critical Geopolitics, Southeast Asia </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Alison Rieser</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Marine environmental history, Political geography of oceans, Historical geography of oceans</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Krisna Suryanata</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Political Ecology, Food and Agriculture, SE Asia</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ross Sutherland</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Geomorphology, Soil Erosion </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Brian Szuster</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Environmental Impact Assessment, Marine Recreation, SE Asia, Hawaii</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everett Wingert</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Cartography, Remote Sensing</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Department Highlights:</span></i><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">UH is located in the lush Mānoa Valley of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. Honolulu is a cosmopolitan and ethnically diverse city of approximately 800,000 with all the amenities of a large American city. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The department has six separate labs for GIS/Cartography, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Macroecology, Long-term Environmental Change, and Geomorphology. These labs provide computer resources for students, research experience, and employment as graduate assistants.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Our students regularly win research grants and awards from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships and Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Awards. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Graduate students in the department are often funded by teaching assistantships, research assistantships with individual faculty members, and through fellowships from the East West Center (<a href="http://www.eastwestcenter.org/education/student-programs">http://www.eastwestcenter.org/education/student-programs</a>).  </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The East-West Center, which is adjacent to campus, provides many opportunities for funding and collaboration with other scholars from the Asia-Pacific region. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The university has an extensive library collection, including a world class Asia Collection. </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hawai‘i’s climate is pleasant with year round highs in the 80s (27-32 C) and lows in the lower 70s (20-24 C). Temperatures are moderated further by the breezy trade winds. </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul> <div> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

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