EECB | Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology | University of Hawaii at Manoa

FACULTY DIRECTORY

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Department of Anthropology
Terry L. Hunt
Evolutionary theory, including ecology and biogeography

Department of Biology (formerly Zoology)
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
Jennifer Davidson
Ecology and population biology of forest diseases
Leonard A. Freed
Evolutionary ecology, behavioral ecology and conservation biology
Mark A. Hixon
Ecology, diversity and conservation of marine fishes and corals
Robert A. Kinzie III (emeritus)
Aquatic ecology, coral reefs and tropical streams
Andrew D. Taylor
Population ecology
Robert C. Thomson
Phylogenetics and conservation
Timothy C. Tricas
Sensory biology, behavior and behavioral ecology of reef fish

Department of Botany
Kasey E. Barton
Evolutionary ecology
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 C. 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
Alison R. Sherwood
Evolution, systematics and population genetics of Hawaiian algae
Celia M. Smith
Physiological ecology of marine macrophytes, marine ecology
Alan H. Teramura
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 (CCRT / PBRC)
Robert H. Cowie EECB Program Chair
Evolutionary biology and conservation of land and freshwater snails
Brenden S. 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

No current EECB faculty

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB)
Brian W. Bowen
Phylogeography, evolution and conservation, genetics of marine vertebrates
Robert Toonen
Population biology and larval ecology of marine invertebrates

John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM)
Rebecca L. Cann
Conservation genetics and molecular evolution

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM)
Travis W. Idol
Forest soils and nutrient cycling
Christopher A. Lepczyk
Ecosystem management
Creighton M. Litton
Forest ecology

Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences (PEPS)
Daniel Rubinoff
Insect systematics, conservation biology, and the evolution of ecological traits

University of Hawai‘i at Hilo

College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management (CAFNRM)
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, and ecosystem function of tropical forests
Donald K. Price
Evolutionary genetics of behaviors

Department of Marine Science
Marta J. DeMaintenon
Evolution of gastropod organogenetic patterns

Affliate Graduate Faculty

Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit

Charles Birkeland
Coral reef ecology and management, marine community ecology
Alan M. Friedlander
Nearshore fisheries

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 snail

US Fish and Wildlife Service
Earl Campbell III
Applied and basic herpetology, invasive species management, conservation biology, predator ecology
James Maragos
Human impact on marine ecosystems and coral reefs

US Department of Agriculture

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