2021 News and Announcements

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Fall 2021 Graduates

Congratulations to all of our recent graduates!

Fall 2021 Newsletter

Fall 2021 brought us a new set of TCBES graduates, a student-led outplanting, and exciting new research and publications, including research on mapping sea level rise and coastal erosion that was highlighted at the UN Global Climate Chance Conference, COP26. Read all about it in our TCBES Fall 2021 Newsletter!

Summer Graduation News

Thathmini Kularatna finished her Master's this summer and is on to an exciting job as a horticulturist with Amazon!

Summer 2021 Newsletter

Summer 2021 brought us publications from UH faculty and alumni, impressive research projects, endangered bird findings, and a new TCBES cohort! Read all about it in our TCBES Summer 2021 Newsletter.

Spring 2021 Success!

The end of this spring semester concluded several journeys for our students - MS thesis defenses, final professional internship presentations, and graduation! The TCBES graduate program accomplished so much this semester that we had to compile it into a newsletter! Read all about it

2021 TCBES Symposium Now Available on YouTube

Aloha TCBES 'Ohana! Were you unable to attend this year's symposium featuring the groundbreaking research being conducted within the TCBES community? If so, today is your lucky day! The 2021 TCBES Symposium is available to watch on the official TCBES YouTube page.

Spring 2021 TCBES Virtual Graduation Ceremony

We would like to invite you to attend the TCBES virtual graduation ceremony, Friday, May 14th, as a special guest. The ceremony will start at 3:00 PM HST. If you would like to attend, you will need to register for the meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

We will also be livestreaming the graduation to the TCBES YouTube Channel for people to watch as well. All are welcome to attend or watch on YouTube. Students who will be participating are: Hilary Street Scott, Kawehi Lopez, Sebastian Maʻa, Sabena Siddiqui, Laura Knight, Sarah Norrbom, Geoffry Grimmett, Koa Matsuoka, and Bryan Tonga (posthumously). The official graduation program is also available, and includes information on our graduate's thesis/professional internships.

Spring 2021 Professional Internship Presentation Day

It is my honor to announce the Spring 2021 University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Master of Science in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Professional Internship Presentation Day event. In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Professional Internship Track, six UH Hilo TCBES graduate students will showcase their professional internship projects.

Please join us via the UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Program's YouTube channel for a Livestream of the day's presentations or please register to attend the Zoom meeting if you would like to ask a presenter a question via the Zoom chat feature. Our presentation event will begin at 8:30 AM with an Oli, Land Acknowledgement, and a short address by the UH Hilo TCBES Director and Associate Director, Drs. Wiegner and Ostertag, respectively.

Where: Livestream UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Program's YouTube channel or, if you would like to ask a presenter a question via the Zoom chat feature, Zoom meeting (registration required; after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting). Please note that the Zoom meeting capacity is 300 participants, and, if you join us via Zoom, please double-check that your Zoom microphone is muted. We will also record the presentations for later viewing at the UH Hilo TCBES Graduate Program's YouTube Channel for those with scheduling conflicts.

Check out the event program: Spring 2021 Professional Internship Presentation Day

2021 TCBES Symposium

This Thursday and Friday (April 15 and 16) is the TCBES Symposium! This year's theme is "Kincentric Stewardship". The conference will be an incredible opportunity to learn about the groundbreaking research being conducted within the TCBES community. View the 2021 TCBES Symposium Program to view the TCBES Symposium Program. We hope to see you there!

Kelsey May Meagher's Professional Internship Presentation

Recent TCBES Graduate, Kelsey May Meagher's Professional Internship Presentation entitled: "Monitoring of the Critically Endangered, Hawaiʻi Island Hawksbill (Honuʻea)" has been uploaded to the TCBES YouTube channel! In addition to Kelsey's Zoom presentation you will find many of our graduate's thesis and professional internship presentations, where you will learn about all of the wonderful projects our students have been engaged in here at UH Hilo.

Congratulations Karen Gallardo Cruz and Kylle Roy for their recent scientific publications!

TCBES Graduates, Karen Gallardo-Cruz and Kylle Roy, have published scientific articles based on their MS thesis research! We are ecstatic with what our TCBES ʻOhana can achieve post-graduation :) Check out Karen's article titled, "Temporal changes in songbird vocalizations associated with helicopter noise in Hawai’i’s protected natural areas" and follow this link for Kylle's paper titled, "Diet Analysis of Hawaiʻi Island’s Blackburnia hawaiiensis (Coleoptera: Carabidae) using Stable Isotopes and High-Throughput Sequencing")

11th Annual TCBES Symposium

Aloha TCBES ʻOhana! On behalf of the TCBES Marine and Terrestrial Environmental Researchers (TCBES MATERs) Club, it is with great pleasure that I announce abstracts are now being accepted for the 11th Annual Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Symposium! This conference will be an incredible opportunity to learn about the groundbreaking research being conducted within the TCBES community. This event will be held virtually on April 15 and 16.