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The Department of Geography at the University of Hawai‘i has a number of funded MA and PhD student positions available for graduate study.

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is one of only a handful of land grant, sea grant, and space grant universities in the United States and the only research intensive (R-1) university in Hawai‘i. The Department of Geography celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2012 and currently has fifteen faculty members with expertise across the breadth of the discipline. We offer MA and PhD degrees in environmental/physical geography, human geography, and geographic technologies. Over 300 MA and PhD graduates from our program have pursued careers in academia, government service, NGOs, and in the private sector.

The department has a mix of energetic young faculty and established scholars that are at the cutting edge of research in their fields. Department faculty strive to collaborate with graduate students on research and publications.This is evident in Camilo Mora's October 2013 paper coauthored with graduate students in the journal Nature, which was reported and debated in the media around the world.

The faculty’s expertise, and the department’s physical setting, make UH an ideal location for marine, coastal, climate, and Asia-Pacific focused research projects. However, the department has graduate students conducting research across the breadth of the discipline.

Department faculty expertise (full listings available here):

David Beilman - Biogeography, Long-term Environmental Change
Qi Chen - Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Science
Thomas Giambelluca - Climatology, Hydrology
Hong Jiang - Undergraduate Chair, Cultural Geography of the Environment, China
Reece Jones - Graduate Chair, Political Geography, Borders, Globalization, South Asia
Stacy Jorgensen - Evolutionary Biogeography, Pacific and Hawaii
Mary McDonald - Economic Geography, Social Theory, Japan
Matthew McGranaghan - Cartography, GIS, Remote Sensing
Camilo Mora - Human Impacts on Marine Environments, Biodiversity
Alison Rieser - Fisheries Management Law and Policy, Marine Conservation Law and Policy
Krisna Suryanata - Political Ecology, Food and Agriculture, SE Asia
Ross Sutherland - Associate Dean of Social Sciences, Geomorphology, Soil Erosion
Brian Szuster - Nature-based Tourism, Marine Recreation, SE Asia, Hawaii
Jill Williams - Feminist Geopolitics, Migration
Everett Wingert - Department Chair, Cartography, Remote Sensing

Department Highlights:

• The department has six separate labs for GIS/Cartography, Remote Sensing, Hydrology, Spatial Genetics, Long-term Environmental Change, and Coastal Geography. These labs provide computer resources for students, research experience, and employment as graduate assistants.
• 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. 
• The East-West Center, which is adjacent to campus, provides many opportunities for funding and collaboration with other scholars from the Asia-Pacific region.
• The university has an extensive library collection, including a world class Asia Collection.
• 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 (note the early Nov 1 deadline: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/education/student-programs).
  
• 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.
  
• 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.

The MA and PhD application deadline is January 15^th to enroll in Fall 2014.

Our department website (www.geography.hawaii.edu) has detailed information on the application process. For informal inquiries, please contact Graduate Chair Reece Jones ([log in to unmask]) or individual faculty members who share your research interests.
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Reece Jones
Associate Professor
Chair of Graduate Studies
Department of Geography
University of Hawai'i-Manoa
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~reecej

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