[Geog_Jobs] FW: Funded MA and PhD positions of Geography at University of Hawai'i at Manoa

[Sinha, Gaurav]

The Department of Geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa<http://www.geography.hawaii.edu/> has funded MA and PhD student positions available for graduate study.

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.

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.

The MA and PhD application deadline is January 15th to enroll in Fall 2016.
Our department website (www.geography.hawaii.edu<http://www.geography.hawai>) has detailed information on the application process. For informal inquiries, please contact Graduate Chair Qi Chen at qichen at hawaii.edu<mailto:qichen at hawaii.edu>.

Department faculty expertise (full listings available here<http://www.geography.hawaii.edu/faculty.html>):

David Beilman Biogeography, Climate Change, Wetlands Ecosystems
Qi Chen Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Science, Vegetation
Thomas Giambelluca Climatology, Ecohydrology
Hong Jiang Cultural geography, Natural-culture relationships, China
Reece Jones Political Geography, Borders, Globalization, South Asia
Mary McDonald Economic Geography, Social Theory, Japan
Matthew McGranaghan Cartography, GIS, Remote Sensing
Camilo Mora Human Impacts on Marine Environments, Biodiversity
Mary Mostafanezhad Development, Humanitarianism, Popular Culture, Tourism, Critical Geopolitics, Southeast Asia
Alison Rieser Marine environmental history, Political geography of oceans, Historical geography of oceans
Krisna Suryanata Political Ecology, Food and Agriculture, SE Asia
Ross Sutherland Geomorphology, Soil Erosion
Brian Szuster Environmental Impact Assessment, Marine Recreation, SE Asia, Hawaii
Everett Wingert Cartography, Remote Sensing

Department Highlights:

  *   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.
  *   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.
  *   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.
  *   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 (http://www.eastwestcenter.org/education/student-programs).
  *   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.
  *   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.

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