Celebrating with Patty Fryer
A zoom celebration for Patty Fryer (right), with in-person congratulations from Rob Wright (left), Gerard Fryer (center), Jeff Taylor (background) and more, was held today on the…
Nicole Lautze Awarded Tenure
HIGP's Nicole Lautze (Associate Researcher) has been awarded tenure. Dr. Lautze is Director of the Hawai‘i Groundwater & Geothermal Resources Center and Associate Director of the Water Resources Research Center.…
UH Awarded $500K from NASA to Develop Small-satellite Educational Kits
In a bold new initiative to inspire the next generation, NASA has awarded $2.4 million to six universities, including the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa,…
Scientists Float a New Theory on the Medusae Fossae Formation on Mars
Pete Mouginis-Mark (HIGP Emeritus Faculty) and Jim Zimbelman (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) studied the surface of Mars in an area near the northern…
James Potemra Awarded 2020 UH Mānoa Presidential Award for Outstanding Service
Dr. James Potemra has been honored with a University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Presidential Award for Outstanding Service. This award recognizes Potemra's outstanding service, heart-felt dedication,…
Investigating Water Ice, Space Weathering on the Moon
A new consortium that includes researchers from HIGP will investigate the origins and evolution of water and other volatiles, or low-boiling point compounds, on the…
Analyses of Solar Wind Samples Suggest New Physics of Massive Solar Ejections
A team of scientists led by HIGP Researcher Gary Huss and including HIGP Specialist Kazuhide Nagashima, and two former HIGP Post-Doctoral Researchers Elizabeth Koeman-Shields (Angelo State University, TX)…
Hope Ishii is Newly Elected Vice Chair of the American Physical Society’s Far West Section
Hope Ishii, HIGP Researcher and Director of the UH Advanced Electron Microscopy Center was in Washington D.C. in late January for the American Physical Society's…
GPS Measurements Reveal Earthquake Dynamics and Earth Structure
Jonathan Weiss (2016 PhD HIGP/Geology and Geophysics and now a Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Potsdam Institute for Geosciences, Germany) is first…
Volcanism on Venus Studied by David Trang
A team of planetary scientists including HIGP Assistant Researcher David Trang has published results from their studies of the alteration rates of the mineral olivine…
Fall 2020: EPET 301 Offered as part of the Certificate Program
The new undergraduate certificate program called EPET – Earth and Planetary Exploration Technology launched in the Spring 2020 semester. Comprised of four courses over four…