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University of Hawai`i at Hilo
 
  College of Agriculture Forestry and Natural Resource Management
       
    L. Arita-Tsutsumi Behavioral ecology of insects
       
  Department of Biology
       
    W. J. Mautz Environmental Physiology, Environmental Toxicology, Ecological Energetics, Respiration Physiology, and Herpetology
       
    R. Ostertag Community structure and nutrient dynamics of tropical forests
       
    D. K. Price Evolutionary genetics of behaviors
       
  Department of Marine Science
       
    M. J. deMaintenon Evolution of gastropod organogenetic patterns
       
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
       
  Department of Anthropology
       
    N.L. Etkin Medicines of the "informal sector" in contemporary Hawaii
       
    L. E. Sponsel The Role of Sacred Places in Biodiversity Conservation
       
    T. Hunt Evolutionary theory, including ecology and biogeography
       
  Department of Botany
       
    C. Daehler Invasive plants, plant-insect interactions
       
    D. Drake Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology, plant-animal interactions
       
    D. C. Duffy Conservation biology (basic and applied)
       
    J. M. V. Fragoso Ecology of tropical animals, plants and ecosystems
       
    S. C. Keeley Plant molecular systematics and evolution
       
    W. C. McClatchey The flora, etnobotany and prehistory of the Solomon Islands and the Rotuma islands
       
    M. D. Merlin Biogeography, ethnobotany, Pacific natural history
       
    C. W. Morden Molecular systematics and evolution of plants and algae
       
    D. Mueller-Dombois Vegetation ecology
       
    L. Sack Whole-Plant Physiology and Ecology
       
    A. R. Sherwood Evolution, systematics and population genetics of Hawaiian algae
       
    C. M. Smith Physiological ecology of marine macrophytes, marine ecology
       
    A. H. Teramura Environmental stress physiology, global climate change, ecosystem analysis and biodiversity
      * Department Chair  
       
    T. Ticktin Ethnoecology and conservation
       
  Center for Conservation Research and Training / Pacific Biomedical Research Center
       
   

R. H. Cowie

*** EECB Program Chair

Evolutionary biology and conservation of land and freshwater snails
       
    B. S. Holland Molecular phylogeography of Pacific Island radiations, conservation genetics, systematics, and invasion biology
       
    D. D. Kapan Evolution and genetics of warning color & mimicry in Lepidoptera
and applied evolutionary ecology and molecular population genetics.
       
    K. Y. Kaneshiro Sexual selection and biology of small populations
       
    M. Q. Martindale Evolution of development of metazoan animals
       
  JABSOM - John A. Burns School of Medicine, UHM
       
    Cell and Molecular Biology
       
      R. L. Cann Conservation genetics and molecular evolution 
         
      D. S. Haymer Molecular evolution 
         
      T. W. Lyttle Population genetics and chromosome evolution 
       
    Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases
       
      B. A. Wilcox Natural Resources management, ecology of infectious diseases
       
  Department of Geography
       
    M. A. Ridgley Human-environment systems analysis: modeling and evaluation of society-environment interactions
       
    K. Suryanata Political economy of natural resources
       
    L. Wester Plant geography, biogeography of islands, human-plant relationships
       
  Department of Geology and Geophysics
       
    E. Gaidos Microbial ecology, modeling of ecological and molecular evolution
       
  Department of Zoology
       
    C. Birkeland Coral reef ecology and management, marine community ecology
       
    D. Carlon Population regulation, life-history evolution, and speciation
       
    K. S. Cole Evolution of sexual patterns; behavioral ecology
       
    S. Conant Conservation biology, life history and ecology of Hawaiian birds
      * Department Chair  
       
    H. G. De Couet Developmental and molecular evolution
       
    J. Davidson Ecology of plant diseases in natural ecosystems
       
    L. A. Freed Evolutionary ecology, behavioral ecology and conservation biology
       
    T. Fukami Species diversity, ecosystem functioning, biological invasions and ecological restoration
       
    M. G. Hadfield Larval biology of marine invertebrates, conservation and demography of Hawaiian tree snails
       
    E. A. Kay Systematics and biogeography of marine molluscs
       
    R. A. Kinzie Aquatic ecology, coral reefs and tropical streams
       
       
    J. D. Parrish Ecology of aquatic (marine) communities, fishery biology
       
    J. Stimson Population ecology
       
    A. D. Taylor Population ecology
       
    T.C. Tricas Behavior and sensory biology of sharks, rays and reef fishes
       
    C. Womersley Environmental physiology, biochemical adaptation, parisitology
       
    A. Wikramanayake Evolution of pattern formation in metazoan embryos
       
  Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
       
    D. Rubinoff Insect systematics, conservation biology, and the evolution of ecological traits
       
    R. Messing Behavioral ecology of insect parisitoids and biological control
       
  College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources / Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management
 
       
    T. Idol  Forest soils and nutrient cycling
       
  Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology / School of Ocean & Earth Science Technology
       
    B. Bowen Phylogeography, evolution and conservation, genetics of marine vertebrates
       
    R. Toonen Population biology and larval ecology of marine invertebrates
       
    W. W. Au Sensory biology of cetaceans
       
Affiliate Graduate Faculty
       
  Bishop Museum
       
    A. Allison Systematics and population biology
       
    N. L. Evenhuis Systematics and evolution of Diptera
       
    F. G. Howarth Evolutionary biology of cave ecosystems and insect conservation
       
    F. Kraus Evolution and conservation of insular faunas, reptiles, amphibians and land snails
       
  US Fish and Wildlife Service
       
    A. Asquith Insect systematics and conservation
       
    J. Maragos Human impact on marine ecosystems and coral reefs
       
  US Forest Service
       
    J. Denslow Ecology of invasive exotic species in tropical forests
       
  US Department of Agriculture
       
    E. Campbell III Applied and basic herpetology, invasive species management, conservation biology, predator ecology
    W. C. Pitt Invasive vertebrate issues.
       
  Biological Resources Division of the USGS 
       
    D. Foote Ecology and conservation of native Hawaiian insects
       
    L. Loope Conservation biology, plant ecology
       
  Hawaii Foundation for Plant Conservation
       
    J. E. Canfield Conservation biology of silverswords and vegetation restoration
       
  National Tropical Botanical Gardens 
       
    D. Ragone Pacific Island ethnobotany, especially conservation and use of traditional crops, focusing on breadfruit
       
  National Park Service, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit
       
    L. Basch Ecology, evolution and conservation of marine life histories and benthic communities
       
  Oceanic Institute 
       
    A.M. Friedlander Nearshore fisheries
       

 

 
 
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