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Welcome to the University of Hawaii-Hilo’s Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science (TCBES) graduate program website. Above you will find links to our faculty, laboratories, and other useful information about the program at large. If you have specific questions, please use our ‘Contact us’ link located above.

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. “

~ Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954

TCBES Mission Statement:  The MS in TCBES provides graduate training in conservation biology and environmental science to people with baccalaureate degrees and others currently working in the field. The program utilizes the extraordinary biological, physical and cultural complexity on the Island of Hawai`i as a focus of investigation and study.

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