geology | University of Hawaiʻi System News

New analysis reveals large-scale motion around San Andreas Fault System

SOEST researchers discover nearly 125 mile-wide “lobes” of uplift and subsidence straddling the fault system.

Virtual explorers can join the Okeanos Explorer as it explores the deepest oceanic trench on the planet, the Marianas Trench.

UH Mānoa’s Hannah Azouz and Trista McKenzie advance knowledge on radioactivity in soil and locally-caught fish.

UH Mānoa to receive funding from National Science Foundation to study volcanic crises in Hawaiʻi and California.

UH Hilo students Kaiulani Kamau and Raelyn Eckert experience the world through Semester at Sea program.

The UH community is saddened by the passing of Bernard “Ray” Hawke of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

UH Hilo Professor Ken Hon explains the hazards Puna Hawaiʻi residents will face as lava flows through the Puna community.

UH Mānoa Professor Steven M. Stanley is the recipient of the 2013 Geological Society of America Penrose Medal.

The lava fields on the Big Island are also classrooms for geology and volcanology students at UH Hilo.

Activities promote understanding and respect for the volcanoes on which we live in Hawaiʻi.