Ichthyology

Dr. Brian Bowen - phylogeography and conservation genetics of marine vertebrates.

Dr. Gordon Grau - regulation of reproduction, development, immune function and environmental adaptation through the release of hormones by the neuroendocrine system; the role of prolactin in freshwater omoregulation, and the cellular mechanisms that mediate the osmoreceptive response.

Dr. David Greenfield - the contribution of small cryptic gobies and blennies to the high species diversity of coral-reef fish communities; cryptic fishes as a trophic link between the invertebrate fauna and larger fish species of the reef; assemblage structure of cryptic fishes in relation to specific habitat parameters (niche specificity). Also, systematics of these poorly known cryptic fishes.

Dr. Kim Holland - the physiological ecology of aquatic organisms and the interface between animal behavior and physiology; relating pelagic and nearshore fishes diel movements, home range sizes and swimming strategies to their foraging success and energy budgets.

Dr. Robert Kinzie - reproductive biology and life history patterns of diadromous endemic fishes of Hawaiian streams.

Dr. George Losey (Emeritus Faculty)- the behavioral control of sex change, analysis of social or symbiotic communication, the functions of UV-sensitive vision in marine fishes and invertebrates; cleaning symbiosis.

Dr. James Parrish - aquatic species interactions and community ecology; predation, trophic ecology, and the trophic structure of communities, particularly in relation to native and alien coastal marine fishes.

Dr. Richard Radtke - characterizing the processes that affect the life history of fishes (i.e., age, growth, recruitment and reproduction) using structural and chemical patterns of otoliths; modeling population structure of commercially and ecologically important species.

Dr. Jack Randall (Associate Faculty, Bishop Museum) - taxonomy and biogeography of tropical marine fishes.

Dr. Ernie Reese (Emeritus Faculty)- the relationship of food and feeding behavior to behavioral ecology and life history characteristics, coevolution of corals and reef fishes, orientation behavior of butterflyfishes, and the use of butterflyfishes as indicators of conditions on coral reefs.

Dr. John Stimson - the role of herbivory by fishes on competition between a macroscopic green alga and the reef building corals in Kaneohe Bay.

Dr. Tim Tricas - the evolution of social systems, coevolution between coral-feeding butterflyfishes and their food corals, the use of butterflyfishes as biological indicators of reef health, and recruitment processes of larvae to coral reefs; mating strategies, reproductive endocrinology, and neuroendocrine systems that may affect sensory processing in fishes.