College of Agriculture Forestry and Natural Resource Management

UH renews focus on sustainability and resilience initiative

April 2, 2019

A five-minute video, features faculty and administrators involved in different and diverse facets of sustainability and resilience research, curriculum, operations and community engagement, and deep cultural connections.

Bob-Bob and horse friends benefit from bento fundraiser

September 13, 2018

Local celebrity chef Alan Wong has partnered with the UH Hilo to host a bento fundraiser for livestock that have been displaced by the recent lava flow.

Sweet potato production can be improved with select fertilizers

June 15, 2018

UH Hilo researchers highly recommended soil testing to determine if current fertilization practices are sustainable and can maintain the production of sweet potato tubers.

Scholarships awarded to beekeeping students at UH Hilo

May 8, 2018

Daniel Lunnom, Batina Grossett and David Russell each received a $1,000 scholarship from the Alan Wong's Adopt–a–Beehive program.

UH Hilo-led algae research may produce energy with negative CO2 emissions

April 11, 2018

A conceptual model of Algae with Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage system would generate electricity while sequestering carbon dioxide.

UH Hilo part of research tying urban land-use change to financial credit

February 22, 2018

Philippe Binder and colleagues sought a better understanding of why conservationists and natural resource managers have lost ground in the past 20 years, while large, lucrative development properties were proposed, approved and funded.

Developing shellfish farming opportunities

November 14, 2017

The UH Sea Grant College Program received a $149,972 NOAA grant to develop new opportunities in shellfish farming for Hawaiʻi and the U.S. affiliated Pacific Islands.

UH Hilo appoints new administrators

October 21, 2016

UH Hilo appoints the vice chancellor for student affairs, dean of college of agriculture and interim dean of the college of business and economics.

Alumna creates sustainability education endowment at UH Hilo

April 28, 2016

The Natsuyama-Otsubo Family Initiative Endowment, to support agriculture research at UH Hilo, celebrates three generations of the Natsuyama-Otsubo family of Honolulu.

First wildlife habitat preservation and large land mammal scholarship established at UH Hilo

February 23, 2016

The W. T. Yoshimoto Foundation Charitable Trust established a charitable trust for the conservation and preservation of wildlife habitats and large land mammals.