NREM Faculty

Faculty who can advise students do not include Emeritus faculty, Junior researchers, and Agents. Cooperating and Affiliate faculty can only advise students as a co-advisor along with an NREM graduate faculty member. 


FACULTY INFORMATION
Miura, Tomoaki

Professor & Department Chair  


Email:  tomoakim@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7333
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Crow, Susan

Associate Professor  


Email:  crows@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-8149
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Dacks, Rachel

Assistant Professor  


Email:  rdacks@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-8825
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Friday, James B

Extension Forester  


Email:  jbfriday@hawaii.edu
Phone:  969-8254
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Huang, Yu-Fen

Junior Researcher  


Email:  yfhuang@hawaii.edu
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Idol, Travis

Professor  


Email:  idol@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7508
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Kaneshiro-Pineiro, Mahealani

Instructor Faculty  


Email:  mykanesh@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-6343
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Keral, Poonam

Instructor Faculty  


Email:  pkeral@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-6707
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Litton, Creighton

Professor  


Email:  litton@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-6004
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Lowe Mackenzie, Ashley

Assistant Professor  


Email:  alowemac@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-0908
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McGuigan, Ashley

Assistant Extension Specialist  


Email:  aamcguig@hawaii.edu
Phone:  969-8217
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Oleson, Kirsten

Professor  


Email:  koleson@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-8864
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Paik, SongYi

Assistant Extension Agent  


Email:  songyip@hawaii.edu
Phone:  969-8270
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Peter-Contesse, Hayley

Junior Researcher  


Email:  hayleypc@hawaii.edu
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Pompeani, David

Assistant Researcher  


Email:  pompeani@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-9575
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Price, Melissa

Associate Professor  


Email:  pricemel@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-7774
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Trauernicht, Parker Clayton (Clay)

Assistant Specialist  


Email:  trauerni@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-6875
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Tsang, YinPhan

Associate Professor  


Email:  tsangy@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-6361
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Vaughan, Mehana

Professor  


Email:  mehana@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-8901
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Youkhana, Adel

Junior Researcher  


Email:  adel@hawaii.edu
Phone:  956-2620
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Tools for Soil 19 July 2018

Tools for Soil

Susan Crow’s (NREM) project “Putting the Farmer in the Driver’s Seat: Integrative Web Tool for Improved Soil Health and Carbon Assessment, Monitoring, and Planning” just won one of three grants from NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative for soil and nitrogen data tools.
For the Birds 19 July 2018

For the Birds

Melissa Price (NREM, left) was one of the scientists who participated in the live broadcast of Hawai‘i Public Radio’s Science Friday filmed at the Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu, where she discussed efforts to engage school children with science and conservation efforts, including her recent Symphony of the Hawaiian Birds.
Dealing With Climate Change in Samoa 12 July 2018

Dealing With Climate Change in Samoa

Clay Trauernicht and Patricia Fifita (both NREM) organized the American Samoa Extension Climate Forum with partners at American Samoa Community College (ASCC), similar to the climate forum for Extension personnel that they organized last year at UH. Jonathan Deenik and Jensen Uyeda (both TPSS) also presented and attended.
What’s Causing ROD 18 April 2018

What’s Causing ROD

Extension forester and winner of CTAHR’s 2018 Award for Excellence in Extension J.B. Friday (NREM) is quoted in a UH News story announcing that the two species of fungus that are causing Rapid ‘Ohi‘a Death, or ROD, have been described and named in a recently published paper.
Land Values 18 April 2018

Land Values

Wildfire expert Clay Trauernicht and Pua‘ala Pascua (both NREM) are co-authors of a paper, “Bringing Multiple Values to the Table: An Assessment of Future Land-Use and Climate Change in North Kona, Hawaiʻi,” that recommends a collaborative approach in working with stakeholders to assess the multiple values that different ecosystems in Hawaiʻi provide.
Carbon on the Range 11 April 2018

Carbon on the Range

Congratulations to graduate student Nicholas Krueger (NREM), who has been awarded the ARCS Foundation’s Helen Jones Farrar Award in Tropical Agriculture! He researches ways to measure soil carbon stocks in Hawaiian rangelands and is one of nine UH doctoral candidates who will receive $5,000 ARCS Scholar awards.
Excellent Researchers 11 April 2018

Excellent Researchers

Congratulations to master’s student Nathaniel Wehr (NREM) and PhD student Zhibin Liang (MBBE), who are the recipients of the 2018 OVCR Student Excellence in Research Award! They will each receive $1000 and will be recognized at the campus-wide awards ceremony on Friday, April 27, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Kennedy Theater.
Hot Conversation 4 April 2018

Hot Conversation

CTAHR wildfire researcher Clay Trauernicht recently joined other experts on disaster vulnerability and resilience in the Islands on Hawai‘i Public Radio program The Conversation.
 

Regrowing Native Forest 7 March 2018

Regrowing Native Forest

Koa is a key species in native forest recovery, but other trees are needed for long-term reforestation after a fire, Clay Trauernicht concludes in a Forest Ecology and Management article about his 14-year study in the Wai‘anae mountains.

Reefs: What’s Harming, What’s Helping? 7 March 2018

Reefs: What’s Harming, What’s Helping?

Kirsten Oleson (NREM) and two members of her lab, Joey Lecky and Kim Falinski, are co-authors of a paper documenting the impacts of human activities and natural events on reef recovery after extreme coral bleaching caused by rising water temperatures in Hawai‘i. 
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