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Visitors to East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery No. 1 will have an easier time locating the headstones of loved ones thanks to a new digital map created by University of Hawaii at Hilo students.

Student geographers created an online map that gives viewers an overhead view of the cemetery and photos of each gravesite.

According to UH researchers, the animals damage healthy trees by digging up roots and stripping off bark.

Newly published online maps show fencing can help prevent the spread of the disease.

Graduate students use satellite imagery to map the spread of two major invasive species in Hawaiʻi’s native forests.

A fungal disease is currently plaguing an endemic tree that dominates native forests in the Hawaiian Islands—the same forests that a slew of critically endangered birds rely on.

The system consists of a specially designed, small rotating chainsaw that has a robotic gripper claw mounted beneath the drone.

UH Hilo geography student Shawna Blackford, part of team that helped modernize Hawaiʻi County’s public access program Geographers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo recently completed a pilot project with the County of Hawaiʻi Department of Planning to help modernize the county’s public access program. Shoreline public access locations and associated permitting documents were digitized in a pilot geospatial database by UH Hilo geographical data experts and The collaborative project f...

February 22, 2021 Federal and state budget cuts, combined with challenges in gathering data, have led to a shrinkage of up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive agricultural data in Hawaii in recent years. Subscribe Farmers, policymakers and others involved in agriculture say that hampers their ability to make critical decisions, including what crops to grow or invest in. They also say it leads to murkiness about the reality of farming in Hawaii, especially land use. Subscribe Many of the most ...