“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge; it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts; it is acquiring understanding.”
-William Arthur Ward
Sustainable Fisheries Graduate Faculty
Because the Sustainable Fisheries Graduate Program is a joint, transdisciplinary program, we have the advantage of being represented by faculty from the School of Ocean, Earth Sciences and Technology (SOEST), College of Natural Sciences (CNS), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR), Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge (HSHK), College of Social Sciences (CSS), and the College of Arts, Languages and Letters (CALL).
Administrative Team
Regular and Cooperating Graduate Faculty
Rachel Dacks
Email: rdacks@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: CTAHR/ NREM
Research: Biocultural conservation, cultural ecosystem services, social-ecological systems, participatory and place-based methods, human dimensions of fisheries, marine biology, Indigenous marine resource management in the Pacific Islands
Donna Dimarchopoulou
Email: ddimarch@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: School of Life Sciences
Research: Quantitative marine fisheries ecology, fisheries biology, ecosystem-based fisheries management, stock assessment, ecosystem modeling, fisheries-dependent and independent data, climate change impacts, marine protected areas
Megan Donahue
Email: donahuem@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: HIMB
Research: Spatial population dynamics; marine community ecology; integration of theory and data; habitat selection; scaling of ecological processes
Mary Donovan
Email: mdono@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: HIMB
Research: Quantitative spatial ecology, resilience theory, field ecology, data synthesis, and statistical modeling to generate insights into the function and resilience of social-ecological systems
Jeffrey Drazen
Email: jdrazen@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Oceanography
Research: Pelagic fisheries
Erik C. Franklin
Email: erik.franklin@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: HIMB
Research: Fisheries science and management including survey data collection; sampling design; fish life history; population dynamics; stock assessment; ecosystem modeling and simulation; fishery governance; and tropical marine ecosystems
Mark Hixon
Email: hixonm@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: SoLS/ College of Natural Sciences
Research: Marine ecology and conservation biology, particularly coral reefs
Kim Holland
Email: kholland@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: HIMB
Research: Organismic and supraorganismic biology of marine organisms, investigations of the behavior, physiology, and ecology of sharks and other fish
Darren Lerner
Email: lerner@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Sea Grant
Research: Environmental physiology of fishes with an emphasis on the impact of environmental contaminants on fish growth, physiology, and behavior
John Lynham
Email: lynham@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Economics
Research: Environmental/resource economics, fisheries economics, marine ecology
Alexander Mawyer
Email: mawyer@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: CALL/ Center for Pacific Island Studies
Research: Marine social sciences, biocultural systems and indicators, coastal and marine resource governance, conservation and sovereignty, nature in language and culture
Kanoe’ulalani Morishige
Email: kanoe.morishige@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge
Research: Environmental drivers of intertidal ecosystems, spatial-temporal patterns in coastal fisheries, Indigenous-led community-based fisheries management, fish and invertebrate life histories
Eileen Nalley
Email: enalley@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Sea Grant
Research: Environmental and human health impacts of marine pollution and shifting land use on marine ecosystems and coastal communities in the Pacific Islands
Kirsten Oleson
Email: koleson@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: NREM
Research: Ecosystem services, environmental valuation, natural capital, ecosystem service modeling, policy analysis, decision science
Camille Pagniello
Email: cpagniel@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: ORE
Research: Ocean instrumentation; marine biodiversity; fish communication; movement ecology of large epipelagic predatory fish; oceanography; data science; conservation technology
Noelani Puniwai
Email: npuniwai@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge
Research: Coastal ecosystems, cultural geography, knowledge co-production, and seascapes
Justin Suca
Email: jsuca@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Oceanography
Research: Fisheries Oceanography: how ocean conditions affect the distribution and life history of fishery-relevant taxa via species distribution modeling, trophic ecology, and studies of recruitment processes
Ron Vave
Email: ronvave@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: CALL/ Center for Pacific Island Studies
Research: Human dimensions of place-based resource management of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs); adaptive and collaborative environmental governance; interdisciplinary, collaborative ecosystem service assessment of social-ecological systems
Xiurou Wu
Email: xiurouwu@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: CTAHR/NREM
Research: Environmental and resource economics, fisheries economics, and biodiversity conservation
Affiliate Faculty
Suzanne Case
Email: sdcase@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: OVPRI/ Land and Ocean Conservation
Research: Land and ocean conservation, water resource management
Timothy Grabowski
Email: tbg@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: UH Hilo/ HCFRU
Research: Management and conservation of freshwater, estuarine, and marine fishes in Hawaii and elsewhere, marine biology, marine fisheries, wildlife and fisheries science, zoology
Lillian Tuttle Raz
Email: tuttlel@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit
Research: Anthropogenic impacts, behavioral ecology, contaminants, disease/parasites, fisheries management, invasive species, population and community ecology, predator-prey dynamics, resilience