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UH Hilo Spring 2021 Commencement Celebration Photo Galleries

UH Hilo graduates are active participants in their education

Picture of myself SCUBA diving over a large sand patch

Alexa Runyan suited up and preparing to enter the water as dive team leader for QUEST (Quantitative Underwater Ecological Surveying Techniques) Field School May 2019.

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Michelle Mazzetti standing in front of an active Pahoehoe Flow during the 2014 Pahoa Eruption Filming Scientific and Educational Footage in the Field with Dr. Cheryl Gansecki and Dr. Ken Hon

Michelle Mazzetti standing in front of an active Pahoehoe Flow during the 2015 Pahoa Eruption Volcanology Lab Field Study at UH Hilo with Dr. Ken Hon

Michelle Mazzetti standing in front of a huge river of A'a Lava as it is flowing down around Green Mountain into Kapoho Assisting the SDAV Lab in the 2018 Leilani Estates collection of Data for Civil Defense and USGS.

Kelsea is placing coral into a fish tank. Fragging coral with the UH Hilo MOP coral propagation program.

Kelsea is measuring sea urchins while submerged in water. Measuring urchins at Onekahakaha Beach Park with the MARE 350 lab.

Grant Sanderson at the Marine Option Program Office on the UH Hilo Campus, during a MOP Event

Grant Sanderson performing a benthic cover survey during a scientific dive

17 of the TESOL program graduates are smiling with the program coordinator, Bela, who is standing on the far left. It was a potluck, so some plates are visible on the bottom right. Many of us are wearing aloha shirts and dressed nicely for the event. It was the last teaching week of the program, so we decided to throw a party after our free English lessons. This photo was taken at the final day of teaching for the TESOL Teaching Practicum (ENG 422) course. Bela, the now-retired coordinator, is at the far left. 17 of the pictured students are those who have completed the required courses for the TESOL certificate.

Photo from Intro to Hawaiian Coral Reefs class! Photo from Intro to Hawaiian Coral Reefs class!

Alice is pictured in in a mask, safety goggles, and an oversized lab coat while using the trim saw in the geology lab.

My first time at Koholālele in Hāmākua on Hawaiʻi island. I went with Kīpuka on their Mālama Kaiāulu huakaʻi. Shakas and smiles at Koholālele!

Carmelle in the water doing research

Photo taken from above. Cara is pictured with a plastic container on her lab. Its clear that its been raining In the field lab aiding for pelagic methods. Here I'm clutching a YSI (instrument for measuring water quality), and holding a hermit crab found in the tide pool at our field site.

Cara in blue shirt holding up a rock with a sea cucumber on it In the field for Advanced Tropical Evolution and Ecology class.

Alice is wearing a backpack, highlighter yellow shirt, those pants that zip off around the knees and turn into shorts (the zipped off parts are detached and bunched around her ankles like leg warmers). A sweater, hat, water bottles, compass, and clipboard are attached to her backpack and belt. She is standing on a rock and examining the erosional remains of a tuff cone and surrounding basalt flows. Alice examining the erosional remains of a tuff cone and surrounding basalt flows as part of the Field Methods course.

Alexa Runyan conducting fish surveys off Hawai'i Island during the 2019 NOAA Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center Northwest Hawaiian Islands Rapid Assessment and Monitoring Program research cruise

Ariana riding a horse.

Practicing drawing up medication with a needle and syringe. Practicing drawing up medication with a needle and syringe.

Co-hosting for UHH's Storytelling series, Wailau

My fourth photo is of me holding a book in my arm standing between two rows in the library.

Kalaupapa class smiling with a ocean view

I am pictured with my arms wrapped around my three linguistics professors, Dr. Ohara, Dr. Saft and Dr. Perez. We are standing in front of a dark red mural inside of Hale ʻŌlelo which depicts Hawaiian writing. Smiling big after the year-end Linguistics potluck with my three professors, Dr. Ohara, Dr. Saft and Dr. Perez. I will miss the heaps of love and joy that the lāhui would pour onto me every morning when I walked into Hale ʻŌlelo.