{"id":193492,"date":"2024-03-11T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T23:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=193492"},"modified":"2024-03-11T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T23:14:10","slug":"nainoa-thompson-honored-aag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/11\/nainoa-thompson-honored-aag\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigator Nainoa Thompson to be honored at international meeting of geographers"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Storied Native Hawaiian navigator and explorer Nainoa Thompson will be recognized as Honorary Geographer of the Year when the American Association of Geographers<\/a> (AAG<\/abbr>) holds its 2024 annual meeting April 16–20, at the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Convention Center. The Department of Geography and Environment<\/a> (GEO<\/abbr>) in the College of Social Sciences<\/a> at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is the lead organizer in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

AAG<\/abbr>, headquartered in Washington, D.C., has 10,000 members worldwide and was founded in 1904.<\/p>\n

Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> high school teachers, students can attend<\/h2>\n

AAG<\/abbr> is encouraging high school teachers and students to contact the organization directly for special conference rates. Educators, and high school students over the age of 18, may also be eligible to serve as paid conference assistants to defray the costs of their registration. Contact meeting@aag.org<\/a> for both opportunities.<\/p>\n

More than 100 sessions will be scheduled per day with formats either in-person or streaming on a wide range of geography topics, including community and political geographies, economic geographies, climate and environment, medical geography and technical topics. Themes in 2024 are Reciprocal Scholarship, Colonialism and Resources, and Recovery and Restoration.<\/p>\n

On the AAG<\/abbr> Presidential Plenary panel is Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, assistant professor of GEO<\/abbr> and the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Water Resources Research Center<\/a>, and a member of the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Commission on Water Resource Management. See more about the session here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are so honored that AAG<\/abbr> has selected Honolulu to host its annual conference, which regularly draws thousands of international attendees,” said Reece Jones, an AAG<\/abbr> Fellow and professor\/chair of GEO<\/abbr>. “Since geographers explore both the Earth\u2019s surface and the human societies spread across the planet, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and its multicultural persona is the perfect place for geographers to gather, and to recognize Nainoa Thompson as AAG<\/abbr> Honorary Geographer.”<\/p>\n

For a glimpse of AAG<\/abbr>\u2019s sessions related to education and career opportunities in geography and the environment, see this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more info on the AAG<\/abbr> conference, see this website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Geography and Environment in the College of Social Sciences at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa is the lead organizer in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[301,38,1466,1467,1026,9],"class_list":["post-193492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-geography","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-social-science","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193502,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193492\/revisions\/193502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}