FACULTY DIRECTORY

University of Hawai`i at Hilo
College of Agriculture Forestry and Natural Resource Management

Lorna H. Arita-Tsutsumi
Behavioral ecology of insects

Department of Biology

William J. Mautz
Environmental Physiology, Environmental Toxicology, Ecological Energetics, Respiration Physiology, and Herpetology

Rebecca Ostertag
Community structure and nutrient dynamics of tropical forests

Donald K. Price
Evolutionary genetics of behaviors

Department of Marine Science

Marta DeMaintenon
Evolution of gastropod organogenetic patterns

University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Department of Anthropology

Nina Etkin
Medicines of the "informal sector" in contemporary Hawaii

Leslie E. Sponsel
The Role of Sacred Places in Biodiversity Conservation

Terry Hunt
Evolutionary theory, including ecology and biogeography

Department of Botany

Curtis C. Daehler
Invasive plants, plant-insect interactions

Donald R. Drake
Plant Ecology, Conservation Biology, plant-animal interactions

David Cameron Duffy
Conservation biology (basic and applied)

Sterling Keeley
Plant molecular systematics and evolution

Mark D. Merlin
Biogeography, ethnobotany, Pacific natural history

Clifford W. Morden
Molecular systematics and evolution of plants and algae

Dieter Mueller-Dombois
Vegetation ecology

Alison R. Sherwood
Evolution, systematics and population genetics of Hawaiian algae

Celia M. Smith
Physiological ecology of marine macrophytes, marine ecology

Alan Teramura
*Department Chair
Environmental stress physiology, global climate change, ecosystem analysis and biodiversity

Tamara Ticktin
Ethnoecology and conservation

Center for Conservation Research and Training / Pacific Biosciences Research Center

Robert H. Cowie
*EECB Program Chair
Evolutionary biology and conservation of land and freshwater snails

Brenden Holland
Molecular phylogeography of Pacific Island radiations, conservation genetics, systematics, and invasion biology

Durrell D. Kapan
Evolution and genetics of warning color & mimicry in Lepidoptera and applied evolutionary ecology and molecular population genetics.

Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro
Sexual selection and biology of small populations

Department of Geography

Mark A. Ridgley
Human-environment systems analysis: modeling and evaluation of society-environment interactions

Lyndon L. Wester
Plant geography, biogeography of islands, human-plant relationships

Department of Geology and Geophysics

Eric J. Gaidos
Microbial ecology, modeling of ecological and molecular evolution

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Brian William Bowen
Phylogeography, evolution and conservation, genetics of marine vertebrates

Rob Toonen
Population biology and larval ecology of marine invertebrates

Whitlow W. Au
Sensory biology of cetaceans

John A. Burns School of Medicine

Rebecca L. Cann
Conservation genetics and molecular evolution

David S. Haymer
Molecular evolution

Terrence W. Lyttle
Population genetics and chromosome evolution

Bruce A. Wilcox
Natural Resources management, ecology of infectious diseases

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management

Travis Idol
Forest soils and nutrient cycling

Christopher Lepczyk
Ecosystem management

Creighton Litton
Forest ecology

Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences

Daniel Rubinoff
Insect systematics, conservation biology, and the evolution of ecological traits

Department of Zoology

Charles Birkeland
Coral reef ecology and management, marine community ecology

David B. Carlon
Population regulation, life-history evolution, and speciation

Kathleen S. Cole
Evolution of sexual patterns; behavioral ecology

Sheila Conant
Conservation biology, life history and ecology of Hawaiian birds

Heinz G. De Couet
Developmental and molecular evolution

Leonard A. Freed
Evolutionary ecology, behavioral ecology and conservation biology

Tadashi Fukami
Species diversity, ecosystem functioning, biological invasions and ecological restoration

Michael G. Hadfield
Larval biology of marine invertebrates, conservation and demography of Hawaiian tree snails

Robert Kinzie III
Aquatic ecology, coral reefs and tropical streams

James D. Parrish
Ecology of aquatic (marine) communities, fishery biology

John Stimson
Population ecology

Andrew Taylor
Population ecology

Timothy C. Tricas
Behavior and sensory biology of sharks, rays and reef fishes

Christopher Womersley
Environmental physiology, biochemical adaptation, parisitology

Affliate Graduate Faculty Zoology

Jennifer Davidson
Ecology and population biology of forest diseases

Miffuyu Nakajima
Population Ecology

Affliate Graduate Faculty at Other Institutions

Bishop Museum

Allen Allison
Systematics and population biology

Neal E. Evenhuis
Systematics and evolution of Diptera

Francis G. Howarth
Evolutionary biology of cave ecosystems and insect conservation

Fred Kraus
Evolution and conservation of insular faunas, reptiles, amphibians and land snails

US Fish and Wildlife Service

James Maragos
Human impact on marine ecosystems and coral reefs

US Forest Service

Julie Denslow
Ecology of invasive exotic species in tropical forests

US Department of Agriculture

Earl Campbell III
Applied and basic herpetology, invasive species management, conservation biology, predator ecology

William C. Pitt
Invasive vertebrate issues.

Biological Resources Division of USGS

David Foote
Ecology and conservation of native Hawaiian insects

Lloyd Loope
Conservation biology, plant ecology

Hawaii Legacy Land Conservation

Joan E. Canfield
Conservation biology of silverswords and vegetation restoration

National Park Service, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit

Lawrence Basch
Ecology, evolution and conservation of marine life histories and benthic communities

Oceanic Institute

Alan M. Friedlander
Nearshore fisheries