TCBES Faculty
Norman Q. Arancon
Professor, Horticulture
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7030, Email, Website
Specialization: Crop and environmental science.
Jonathan “Jon” Awaya
Chair & Professor, Biology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7180, Email
Research: Elemental cycling and secondary metabolite biosynthesis in environmental microbes.
Courses: Fundamentals of Microbiology, Biology of Microorganisms, Intro to Cell & Molecular
Office Hours: SP20 T/TH 10:45am-noon or by appt.
Celia T. Bardwell-Jones
Professor, Philosophy; Gender and Women's Studies Program
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7230, Email
Research interests: Feminist Philosophy, American Philosophy, Philosophy of Race and Cultural Diversity
Teaching: Metaphysics, Theories of Knowledge, Philosophy of Nature, Science, Technology and Society, Ethics
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays - 8:50am-9:50am in K229. I am also available for appointment.
Kathryn J. Besio
Professor, Geography and Environmental Sciences
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7253, Email
Courses: Geography and Contemporary Society; Cultural Geography; Food and Societies; Gender, Place and Environment.
Research: Tourism geography, qualitative research methods, research ethics, home gardens and local foods.
John H. R. Burns
Assistant Professor, Marine Science
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7595, Email, Website
Research: coral biology, coral reef ecology, coral epizootiology, quantitative ecology, 3D modeling, data visualization
Courses: Oceanography, TCBES Core Courses, Data Visualization
Lisa Canale
Program Coordinator, Professional Internship Track
Steven “Steve” Colbert
Chair & Associate Professor, Marine Science
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7596, Email
Marta deMaintenon
Professor, Marine Science
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7591, Email
I am a marine invertebrate zoologist. My research is mostly on marine snails, with an interest in anatomy, ecology, systematics and taxonomy.
Armando García-Ortega
Associate Professor, Aquaculture
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7031, Email, Website
Specialization: Aquaculture, Fish Nutrition & Feeding, Land-based Production of Marine Fish and Seaweeds
Joseph H. Genz
Associate Professor, Anthropology; Coordinator, Pacific Island Studies Certificate, PISC
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7267, Email, Website
Courses: Cultural Anthropology, Cultures of Oceania, Change in The Pacific
Research: Understanding and helping to ease tensions that have arisen between recent Micronesian migrants and other communities in Hawaiʻi. Cultural revival of voyaging and navigation in the Marshall Islands.
Timothy B. Grabowski
Unit Leader, U.S. Geological Survey-Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit; Adjunct Associate Professor
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7575, Email, Website
Research: fish behaviorial and physiological ecology, fish reproduction and early life history, aquatic landscape ecology, fisheries management and conservation.
Courses: Fisheries Ecology, TCBES Core Courses
Mazen L. Hamad
Professor, Chemistry
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7198, Email
Primary Discipline: Analytical Chemistry.
Research: Pharmaceutical systems.
Education: Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Washington.
Patrick J. Hart
Professor, Biology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7182, Email, Website
Research: Ecology and conservation of Hawaiian forests and forest birds.
Courses: Biostatistics, General Ecology, Avian Biology, Field Ornithology.
Maria C. Haws
Professor, Aquaculture
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7870, Email
Specialization: Aquaculture, coastal management, climate change adaptation.
Kevin D. Hopkins
Professor, Aquaculture
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7033, Email, Website
Specialization: General agriculture.
Matthew “Matt” Knope
Assistant Professor
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7715, Email, Website
Research: Evolutionary ecology of marine and terrestrial organisms.
Courses: Biostatistics, Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands, Advanced Tropical Island Ecology and Evolution.
Yiqing Li
Associate Professor, Tropical Forest Ecology & Management
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7156, Email, Website
Specialization: Tropical forests.
Steven “Steve” P. Lundblad
Professor of Geology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7548, Email
Disciplines: Sedimentary Geology, Geochemistry, Geoarchaeology.
Education: A.B, Geological Sciences, Harvard University 1985; M.S., Geological Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988; Ph.D., Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1994.
Sarah Marusek
Professor of Public Law
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7129, Email, Website
My research and teaching interests in Public Law explore how law works in everyday life from a variety of perspectives, including visual jurisprudence, legal semiotics, legal geography, constitutive legal theory, and law and society. I am the POLS Advisor and the interdisciplinary Pre-Law Certificate Advisor.
Recent Publications (CV available):
Law and the Kinetic Environment: Regulating Dynamic Landscapes, Routledge, 2021
Parking policy: The socio-legal architecture of parking bays in American cities, Land Use Policy, Vol 91 (Feb 2020)
Bruce W. Mathews
Dean, College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management; Professor, Soil Science
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7036, Email, Website
Specialization: Environmental agronomy.
William J. Mautz
Professor Emeritus, Biology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7511, Email, Website
Research: Environmental physiology, biology of reptiles and amphibians.
Courses: Ecological Physiology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Intermediate Cell and Molecular Biology.
Jon-Pierre “JP” Michaud
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7201, Email
Primary Discipline: Toxicology.
Research: Environmental chemistry.
Education: Ph.D. in Pharmacology, University of Arizona.
Jené Michaud
Chair & Professor, Geology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7552, Email, Website
Disciplines: Hydrology, geomorphology, geology.
Education: B.S., Geoscience, University of Washington; M.S., Hydrology, University of Arizona; Ph.D., Hydrology, University of Arizona.
Peter R. Mills
Professor, Anthropology; Director Heritage Management MA Program
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7268, Email, Website
Courses: Archaeology, Archaeometry, Internship
Research: Non-destructive sourcing of Polynesian stone tools.
Cedric “Cam” C. Muir
Associate Professor, Biology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7500, Email, Website
Research: Agro-ecology, ecological genetics of crop species, food security.
Courses: Introductory Biology, Evolution, Intro to Cell and Molecular Biology, Genetics.
Stan T. Nakanishi
Associate Professor, Biology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7193, Email
Research: Investigating the neuromodulatory effects of compounds derived from Native Hawaiian plants.
Courses: Genetics, Intermediate Cell and Molecular Biology.
Rebecca “Becky” Ostertag
Professor, Biology; Associate Program Chair, M.S. in Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7573, Email, Website
Research: Long-term forest dynamics in relation to climate change, nutrient cycling, invasive species, and restoration ecology.
Courses: General Ecology, Conservation Biology, TCBES Core Courses.
Adam A. Pack
Chair and Professor, Psychology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7082, Email
Research: Marine mammal behavior and mating systems, humpback whales, spinner dolphins, animal cognition.
Courses: Marine Mammal Behavior, Animal Cognition.
Ryan Perroy
Chair and Associate Professor, Geography
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7259, Email, Website
Courses: Remote Sensing, Advanced Geo-Spatial Techniques, Climate Change, Introduction to Geostatistics, Field Methods.
Research: Exploring land degradation and recovery processes, such as erosion and invasive species, using sUAS and remote sensing, X-ray fluorescence, and traditional field methods.
Michael “Mike” Peterson
Chair & Associate Professor, Computer Science
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7525, Email, Website
Research: Image Processing, Data Science, Visualization, Bioinformatics, and Evolutionary Computation.
Courses: Fundamentals of Data Science in R, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, Introduction to Computer Science I & II, Database Internals, Database Management Systems Design, Database Analytics (Data Mining), Artificial Intelligence, Organization of Programming Languages, Theory of Computing, Introduction to Bioinformatics, Introduction to Image Processing, Board Game Analysis and Design.
Jonathan Price
Professor, Geography
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7241, Email
Courses: Biogeography, Principles of Landscape Ecology, Senior Thesis.
Research: Utilizing GIS to identify biodiversity hotspots for native bird and plant species, search for rare species, and locate appropriate areas for the restoration of threatened and endangered species.
Michael H. Shintaku
Professor, Plant Pathology
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7154, Email, Website
Specialization: Plant virology.
Shihwu Sung
Professor, Applied Engineering
Contact: Tel: (808) 932-7155, Email
Specialization: Environmental Engineering.