Biology Directory

This listing contains all faculty and associates of the Department of Biology. They may be affiliated with other programs or departments of UH Mānoa, but they are all active in the research, programs, and activities that the Department of Biology typically engages in.

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Greta Aeby

Assistant Researcher

Understanding the Role that Biological Interactions Play in Structuring the Coral Reef Community

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7401

Fax

(808) 236-7443

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Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 1:39pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:08pm

Harry Ako

Chair and Researcher

Aquaculture Biotechnology; Fatty Acid Biotechnology

Email
Room

AgSci 218

Phone

(808) 956-2012

Fax

(808) 956-3542

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 9:02am
Last Modified: 
02/06/2014 at 2:49pm

Maqsudul Alam

Professor and Chair

Microbiology

Email
Room

Snyder 111

Phone

(808) 956-8121

Fax

(808) 956-5339

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 9:09am
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:11pm

Allen Allison

Senior Zoologist

Population Biology, Systematics, Herpetology, Papuan Herpetofauna

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Room

Bishop Museum

Phone

(808) 848-4145

Fax

(808) 847-8252

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 3:01pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:09pm

Whitlow Au

Researcher, MMRP

Echolocation, Hearing and Acoustics of Marine Mammals

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 247-7426

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 12:39pm
Last Modified: 
07/22/2014 at 12:02pm

Julie Bailey-Brock

Professor

Marine Invertebrates, Coral Reef Polychaetes, Anchialine Communities, Organic Enrichment and Pollution Ecology

Email
Room

BioMed T301C, B

Phone

(808) 956-6149

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
09/02/2013 at 9:02pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:25am

Paul C. Banko

Faculty

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Room

Kilauea Field Station

Phone

(808) 967-7396

Fax

(808) 967-8568

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Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 3:08pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:09pm

Kevin Bennett

Associate Professor

Molecular imaging, magnetic resonance, biophysics, nanmagnetism, self assembly, kidney diagnostics

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Room

EDM 411

Phone

(808) 956-8241

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 12:19pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:25am

Charles Birkeland

Professor, Hawaii Cooperative Fish Unit

Coral reef ecology and management, marine community ecology

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Post Date: 
11/22/2013 at 9:29am
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07/22/2014 at 1:37pm

Brian Bowen

Associate Researcher

Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics of Marine Vertebrates

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HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7426

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 12:49pm
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12/07/2013 at 12:45pm
Marguerite Butler

Marguerite Butler

Associate Professor

Functional Morphology, Biomechanics, Phylogenetics, Macroevolution, Modeling, and Statistics

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Room

EDM 316

Phone

(808) 956-4713

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Post Date: 
09/02/2013 at 10:53pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:26am

Sean Callahan

Professor and Associate Chair

Prokaryotic Biology; "Fixation" of Biologically Inert Dinitrogen Gas and Specialized Cells Along a Filament

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Room

Sny 201

Phone

(808) 956-8015

Fax

(808) 956-5339

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 9:16am
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:11pm

David B. Carlon

Associate Professor

Population Biology, Adaptation, Speciation

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Room

Biomed A-204

Phone

(808) 956-9523

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
06/30/2013 at 8:19pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 8:10am
Kathleen S. Cole

Kathleen S. Cole

Biology Department Chair

Associate Professor

Evolution of Behavior, Morphology and Developmental Biology

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Room

EDM 416

Phone

(808) 956-8618

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
09/09/2013 at 9:22pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:27am

Sheila Conant

Professor

Life History, Ecology and Conservation Biology of Endemic Hawaiian Birds, Island Biology

Email
Room

Dean 107

Phone

(808) 956-8241

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
09/21/2013 at 1:04pm
Last Modified: 
07/22/2014 at 1:37pm

Ian Cooke

Professor, Pacific Biosciences Research Center

Cellular mechanisms linking electrical and secretory activities of peptide-secretory cells, especially the role of calcium movements in control of secretion

Email
Room

PBRC 102

Phone

(808) 956-6776

Fax

(808) 956-6984

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
11/22/2013 at 9:40am
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11/22/2013 at 9:40am

Robert Cowie

Researcher, CCRT

EECB Chair

The Origins and Determinants of Biological Diversity in the Islands of the Pacific

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Room

Gil 408

Phone

(808) 956-4909

Fax

(808) 956-2647

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 1:22pm
Last Modified: 
12/07/2013 at 1:19pm
Curtis Daehler

Curtis Daehler

Professor

  • Population biology of invasive plants
  • Predicting plant invaders - Weed Risk Assessments
  • Global and regional patterns of plant invasions
  • Plant-herbivore interactions
  • Effects of fire on native and alien plant recruitment in coastal grasslands
Email
Room

St. John 413A

Phone

(808) 956-3929

Fax

(808) 956-3923

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Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 9:23am
Last Modified: 
11/21/2013 at 1:09pm
Heinz Gert de Couet

Heinz Gert de Couet

Associate Chair of Research and Graduate Education

Professor

Molecular Cell Biology and Developmental Evolution

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Room

EDM 413

Phone

(808) 956-9686

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Post Date: 
09/26/2013 at 3:01pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:27am
Shelley Deakins

Shelley Deakins

Institutional Support

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Room

EDM216

Phone

(808) 956-8617

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 12:02pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:35am

Stuart Donachie

Associate Professor and Associate Chair

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Room

Sny 210

Phone

(808) 956-6452

Fax

(808) 956-5339

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 9:31am
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:11pm

Megan Donahue

Associate Researcher

Population Ecology, Particularly of Interspecific Interactions

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7417

Fax

(808) 236-7443

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 1:31pm
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12/10/2013 at 3:04pm

David Duffy

Professor

How Natural Environments Respond to Pertubations

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Room

St. John 410

Phone

(808) 956-8218

Fax

(808) 956-4710

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 2:42pm
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12/10/2013 at 3:04pm
Leonard A. Freed

Leonard A. Freed

Professor

Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology

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Room

BioMed T-310A

Phone

(808) 956-8655

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
09/26/2013 at 3:29pm
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06/30/2014 at 10:28am

Alan Friedlander

Faculty

Coral Reef Community Ecology, Fisheries Science, Marine Conservation Biology, and Traditional Marine Resource Use and Management

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Room

Biomed A-103

Phone

(808) 956-8350

Fax

(808) 956-4238

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 2:49pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:04pm

Ruth Gates

Associate Researcher

The Biology of Corals and the Evolution of Animal Sensory Systems

Email
Room

HIMB Pauley 107

Phone

(808) 236-7420

Fax

(808) 236-7443

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 2:57pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:05pm

E. Gordon Grau

Director/Professor

Environmental Physiology and Comparative Endocrinology of Estuarine Fish

Email
Room

HIG 238

Phone

(808) 956-7031

Fax

(808) 956-3014

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 3:04pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:06pm

Michael G. Hadfield

Professor

Larval Settlement and Metamorphosis; Conservation and Evolutionary Biology of Hawaiian Tree Snails

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Room

Henke 336/Kewalo Lab 214

Phone

(808) 956-6176

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
09/30/2013 at 10:53pm
Last Modified: 
07/22/2014 at 1:36pm

Daniel K. Hartline

Director and Researcher, Bekesy Lab

Neurophysiology: Copepod Neurocology, Computational Properties of Network Neurons, Computational Studies of Space Clamp Errors in Point-Clamp Experiments

Email
Room

PBRC 119

Phone

(808) 956-8003

Fax

(808) 956-6984

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 3:17pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:06pm
Mark Hixon

Mark Hixon

Professor and

Sidney & Erica Hsiao Endowed Chair in Marine Biology

Marine ecology and conservation biology, especially involving fishes on coral reefs

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Room

EDM 417

Phone

(808) 956-6427

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Post Date: 
09/30/2013 at 11:12pm
Last Modified: 
07/10/2014 at 3:15pm

Brenden Holland

Associate Researcher, CCRT

The Mechanisms and Processes that Result in Diversification of Multicellular Life on Earth

Email
Room

Henke 337

Phone

(808) 956-6176

Fax

(808) 956-2647

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 1:47pm
Last Modified: 
02/06/2014 at 3:06pm

Kim N. Holland

Researcher

Physiology and Behavior of Aquatic Animals; Resource Conservation

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7410

Fax

(808) 236-7443

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 3:27pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:06pm

Cynthia L. Hunter

Associate Professor, Biology

Director, Marine Option Program

Coral Reef Ecology and Conservation

Email
Room

Dean 108/108 A

Phone

(808) 956-4748

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
09/30/2013 at 11:21pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:29am

Paul L. Jokiel

Researcher

Coral Reef Ecology

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7440

Fax

(808) 236-7443

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 3:34pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:06pm

Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro

Director, CCRT/Director, HEBP/Research

Speciation, Evolutionary Biology, Sexual Selection Theory, Hawaiian Drosophilids

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Room

Gil 406

Phone

(808) 956-6739

Fax

(808) 956-2647

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 3:54pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:07pm

Stephen A. Karl

Associate Researcher

Molecular Ecology, Evolution, Conservation and Population Genetics

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7478

Fax

(808) 236-7443

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 4:00pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:07pm

Cheri Kau

Academic Support

Email
Room

EDM 216

Phone

(808) 956-6174

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
07/08/2014 at 11:27am
Last Modified: 
07/08/2014 at 11:33am

Robert A. Kinzie

Professor, Biology

Coral ecology and photobiology; Aquatic ecology

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N/A

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N/A

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Post Date: 
11/22/2013 at 9:47am
Last Modified: 
07/22/2014 at 1:38pm

Stephanie Kraft-Terry

Junior Specialist - Academic Advising and Assessment

Academic Advising and Program-Level Assessment 

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Room

EDM 216 B

Phone

(808) 956-0735

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
09/30/2013 at 11:39pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:29am
Jeffrey Kuwabara

Jeffrey Kuwabara

Manoa Marine Option Program Coordinator

Email
Room

Dean 105A

Phone

(808) 956-8433

Fax

(808) 956-2417

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
11/21/2013 at 3:29pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:43pm
Jessica Lam

Jessica Lam

Institutional Support

Email
Room

EDM 216

Phone

(808) 956-4743

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 12:14pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:38am

Marc O. Lammers

Assistant Researcher

Marine Bioacoustics and Cetacean Behavior

Email
Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 375-0010

Fax

(808) 236-7443

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 1:54pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:09pm

Petra Lenz

Researcher, Bekesy Lab

Neuroecology of Zooplankton Sensory Systems

Email
Room

PBRC 119

Phone

(808) 956-8003

Fax

(808) 956-6984

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 2:44pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:09pm

Christopher Lepczyk

Associate Professor

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Email
Room

SHER 130

Phone

(808) 956-2617

Fax

(808) 956-6539

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
02/07/2014 at 12:23pm
Last Modified: 
02/07/2014 at 12:23pm

George S. Losey

Professor, Ethology and Ecology of Coral Fishes

Ethology of reef fishes especially regarding UV vision

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N/A

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N/A

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Post Date: 
11/22/2013 at 10:04am
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07/22/2014 at 1:38pm
Peter Marko

Peter Marko

Professor

Evolution, Biogeography and Conservation

Email
Room

EDM 317

Phone

(808) 956-6146

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
09/30/2013 at 11:47pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:30am
Joseph Menor

Joseph Menor

Academic Support

Email
Room

EDM 216

Phone

(808) 956-0824

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
09/04/2013 at 9:42pm
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:38am

Stephen Miller

Faculty

Conservation Biology of Ecosystems and Populations

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Room

US Fish and Wildlife, HI Office

Phone

(808) 541-3441

Fax

(808) 956-

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 3:13pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:10pm
Amy Moran

Amy Moran

Professor

The Ecology and Evolution of Marine Organisms

Email
Room

EDM 311

Phone

(808) 956-6147

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
09/30/2013 at 11:54pm
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06/30/2014 at 10:30am

Clifford W. Morden

Associate Professor

Plant Molecular Systematics, Evolution, Population Genetics, Hybrid Plant Biology, Biogeography, Conservation Biology

Email
Room

St. John 602A

Phone

(808) 956-9636

Fax

(808) 956-3923

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 9:49am
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:11pm

Paul Nachtigall

Director, Marine Mammal Research Program

Graduate Faculty, Zoology, Psychology

Cetacean Sensory and Perceptual Processes

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 247-5297

Fax

(808) 247-5831

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 4:07pm
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12/10/2013 at 3:07pm

John Randall

Senior Ichthyologist, Bishop Museum

Taxonomy and Biogeography of Tropical Marine Fishes

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Room

Bishop Museum

Phone

(808) 848-4130

Fax

(808) 847-8252

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 3:25pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:10pm
Floyd Reed

Floyd Reed

Assistant Professor

Email
Room

EDM 412

Phone

(808) 956-6489

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 9:21am
Last Modified: 
06/30/2014 at 10:31am

Ernst S. Reese

Professor, Zoology

Behavioral ecology of coral reef animals

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N/A

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11/22/2013 at 10:31am
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07/22/2014 at 1:39pm

Robert H. Richmond

Research and Director, Kewalo Marine Lab

Marine Conservation, with a Focus on Coral Reefs

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Room

Kewalo Lab 218

Phone

(808) 539-7331

Fax

(808) 599-4817

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 4:12pm
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12/10/2013 at 3:07pm

Ku'ulei Rodgers

Faculty

Mauka/Makai Connection Between Watersheds and Reefs Including Indicators of Reef Condition and Impacts of Ocean Acidification

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7440

Fax

(808) 236-7443

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Post Date: 
10/09/2013 at 3:29pm
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12/10/2013 at 3:10pm

Sam Ropiak

Director of Operations

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Room

EDM 216D

Phone

(808) 956-7315

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
07/08/2014 at 11:25am
Last Modified: 
07/08/2014 at 11:33am
Andrew Rossiter

Andrew Rossiter

Director of State Aquarium

Director of Waikiki Aquarium

Awareness of the Ecology, Biology and Conservation Status of Fishes through Aquarium Exhibition

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Room

2777 Kalakaua Ave

Phone

(808) 923-9741

Fax

(808) 923-1771

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 9:45am
Last Modified: 
11/18/2013 at 10:16am

Alison Sherwood

Graduate Chair

Algal Biodiversity

Email
Room

St. John 607C

Phone

(808) 956-3930

Fax

(808) 956-4115

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 9:57am
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:12pm

Celia Smith

Professor

Physiological Ecology of Reef Algae and Corals with Related Issues in Marine Ecology

Email
Room

St. John 614A

Phone

(808) 956-6947

Fax

(808) 956-3923

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/10/2013 at 10:05am
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:12pm
Cheryl Squair

Cheryl Squair

Academic Support

Email
Room

EDM 213

Phone

(808) 956-4742

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 11:45am
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06/30/2014 at 10:39am

John S. Stimson

Professor, Zoology

Population and community ecology of corals and reef fishes

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N/A

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Post Date: 
11/22/2013 at 10:39am
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07/22/2014 at 1:39pm
Keao Sunaoka

Keao Sunaoka

Academic Support

Email
Room

EDM 213

Phone

(808) 956-4742

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Staff
Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 11:51am
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06/30/2014 at 10:44am
Andrew D. Taylor

Andrew D. Taylor

Associate Professor

Population and Community Ecology of Interspecific Interactions; Applied Statistics

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Room

EDM 409

Phone

(808) 956-4706

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 10:01am
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07/10/2014 at 9:03am

Florence Thomas

Associate Researcher

Coral reefs, coastal ecology, invertebrate reproduction, and biomechanics

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7418

Fax

(808) 236-7443

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 4:21pm
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01/17/2014 at 1:41pm
Robert Thomson

Robert Thomson

Assistant Professor

Systematic Biology, Evolution and Conservation

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Room

EDM 313

Phone

(808) 956-6476

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 10:10am
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06/30/2014 at 10:32am

Robert J. Toonen

Associate Researcher

Dispersal and Recruitment of Invertebrate Larvae; Population Genetics, Evolution & Ecology of Marine Invertebrates

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Room

HIMB

Phone

(808) 236-7425

Fax

(808) 236-7443

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 4:30pm
Last Modified: 
12/10/2013 at 3:08pm

Timothy C. Tricas

Professor

Co-Director, Graduate Program in Marine Biology

Behavior and Sensory Biology of Fishes

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Room

BioMed A208

Phone

(808) 956-8677

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
Faculty
Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 10:19am
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06/30/2014 at 10:33am

Les Watling

Graduate Chair

Professor

Biology of Deep-sea Octocorals and Their Associates, Biology of Crustacea, and Conservation Studies

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Room

EDM 312

Phone

(808) 956-8621

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 10:30am
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06/30/2014 at 10:33am
Christopher Z. Womersley

Christopher Z. Womersley

Professor

Physiological Ecology/Adaptive Biochemistry; Dehydration and Freezing Stress; Biological Control

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Room

BioMed T509

Phone

(808) 956-8622

Fax

(808) 956-4745

Content Type: 
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Post Date: 
10/08/2013 at 10:42am
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06/30/2014 at 10:35am

Amber Wright

Assistant Professor

Ecology and Conservation Biology

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Room

EDM 314

Phone

(808) 956-3639

Fax

(808) 956-4745

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Faculty
Post Date: 
12/20/2013 at 11:10am
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06/30/2014 at 10:34am