Meet our program regular faculty and students.
Daniel Amato
Email: dwamato@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Sciences
Organization: Amato Science, LLC
Research: Physiological ecology of marine macrophytes, coastal ecology, ocean pollution, submarine groundwater discharge, seaweed
Charles Birkeland
Email: charlesb@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization:
Research: Coral reef ecology and management, marine community ecology
Felipe Carvalho
Email: felipe.carvalho@noaa.gov
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: NOAA
Research: Fisheries, stock assessment, and population dynamics
Kimberly Falinski
Email: falinski@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: The Nature Consevancy
Research: Land management and policy solutions to reduce sediment and nutrient inputs to coastal tropical systems; coastal wetlands conservation for ecological and climate resilience.
Jake Ferguson
Email: jakeferg@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: University of Kentucky
Research: quantitative population ecology, statistical ecology
Alan Friedlander
Email: friedlan@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: SOEST/ HIMB
Organization: National Geographic
Research: Ocean, marine and nearshore conservation, evolutionary conservation, fisheries ecology
Timothy Grawbowski
Email: tbg@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Sciences
Organization: UH Hilo
Research: Behavioral/physiological & reproductive ecology, conservation of aquatic species, landscape ecology in aquatic & marine systems. Research methods: hydroacoustics, radio&acoustic telemetry, image analysis
Mary Hagedorn
Email: maryhage@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: SOEST/HIMB
Organization: Smithsonian
Research: Coral physiology and Conservation
Bob Humphreys
Email: rhumphre@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: NOAA
Research: Life history of marine fishes; otolith analysis; gonad histology; seamount and pelagic fisheries
Matthew Iacchei
Email: iacchei@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: HPU
Research: Fisheries, genetic patterns, ecology and conservation, biological oceanography
Tye Kindinger
Email: tyekind@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: National Geographic
Research: ecosystem surveys, dataset management, nearshore ecosystem management and conservation, ocean
acidification, invasive species ecology
Jack Kittinger
Email: jkitt@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: Conservation International
Research: Science, policy and partnerships to protect food, water and livelihoods
Don Kobayashi
Email: donald.kobayashi@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: NOAA
Research: Pelagic larval ecology and transport in Hawaiian archipelago; metapopulation connectivity
Randall Kosaki
Email: rkosaki@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: NOAA
Research: Research Ecologist, Papahānaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Behavioral ecology of coral reef fishes.
Marc O. Lammers
Email:
Department/Unit: SOEST/ HIMB
Organization: Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
Research: Bioacoustics, marine mammals
Anthony Montgomery
Email: amont@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: FWS
Research: Coral reef ecology, coral biology, coral biodiversity, coral reef management and conservation
Marc Nadon
Email: mnadon@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: NOAA
Research: Fish biology and fisheries science, conservation biology, quantitative ecology, population dynamics, and stable isotope ecology
Erin Oleson
Email: erin.oleson@noaa.gov
Department/Unit: SOEST/HIMB
Organization: NOAA
Research: Emerging technologies for cetacean population assessment, Acoustic species and population identification, Oceanographic indicators of cetacean distribution, Anthropogenic impacts on marine mammals
Thomas Oliver
Email: taoliver@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: NOAA
Research: Program Manager Ocean Acidification, Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Coral reef evolutionary ecologist; uses spatial and genomic tools to document ecological responses to environmental change, especially warming and acidification
Kimberly Peyton
Email: peyton@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: DLNR
Research: Ecology, restoration and adaptive management of Hawaiian estuaries, coastal wetlands, streams, marine systems, seagrasses, sedges, macroalgae, coastal fishes, introduced species
Daniel Polhemus
Email: danp3@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: FWS
Research: Phylogenetic evolution; conservation and management of tropical aquatic ecosystems; systematics, zoogeography, and ecology of true bugs and damselflies;zoogeography and geological processes on island arcs and hotspots
Jeffrey Polovina
Email: jpolovin@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: NOAA
Research: Ecosystems and Oceanography; NOAA Fisheries
Joan Roughgarden
Email: joaner@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: Emeritus Stanford
Research: Ecology and evolutionary biology
Andy Szabo
Email: andyszabo@gmail.com
Department/Unit: SOEST/HIMB
Organization: Alaska Whale Foundation
Research: whale health, foraging ecology, predator-prey interactions, social behavior, and communication
Daniel Wagner
Email: wagnerda@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: Natural Science
Organization: Ocean Exploration Trust
Research: Deep-sea ecosystems, research in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
Thierry Work
Email: twork@hawaii.edu
Department/Unit: SOEST/HIMB
Organization: USGS- National Wildlife Health Center
Research: Terrestrial and marine ecosystems, wildlife health, disease ecology, coral disease