Participating Faculy
Names are followed by designations - such as 2a - indicating that faculty’s area of interest:
1a - Tropical zoonotic and vector-borne diseases
1b – Environmental change and emerging infectious diseases
1c – Invasive species, pathogens and biodiversity
2a – Tropical land/water linkages – coastal marine conservation and health
2b – Coral disease and epizootiology of marine organisms
2c – Marine conservation genetics and microbial diversity
Greta S. Aeby [2a, 2b]
- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
- Marine environmental toxicology, coral reef ecology
Shannon N. Bennett [1a, 1b]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Virology, evolutionary of pathogens, bioinformatics, molecular phylogenetics
- NSF IGERT ECPB Co-PI, Assistant Director, Executive Committee
Brian Bowen [2a, 2b]
- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
- Phylogeography and Conservation Genetics of Marine Vertebrates
Rebecca L. Cann [1a]
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
- Molecular evolution, detection of avian malaria in multiple host communities
David Carlon [2a, 2b, 2c]
- Department of Zoology
- Adaptation and speciation, population biology, conservation genetics of marine populations
- Pacific Biosciences Research Center
- Minority recruitment
- NSF IGERT ECPB Minority Recruitment
Sandra Chang [1a]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Immunology, parasitology, infectious diseases
- College of Education
- Place based science education
Abby C. Collier [2a]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics, endocrine disruptors focus in pregnancy and childhood
- Pacific Biosciences Research Center
- Intelligence evolution
Rob Cowie [1c]
- Center for Conservation Research and Training
- Evolutionary biology, biogeography, conservation, invasive species
Curtis C. Daehler [1c]
- Department of Botany
- Population biology, invasive plants, plant-animal interactions
Stuart P. Donachie [2c]
- Department of Microbiology
- Microbial genetics
Donald R. Drake [1c]
- Department of Botany
- Plant ecology, plant-animal interactions, conservation ecology
James T. Efird [1a]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Epidemiology, biostatistics, zoonotic viral diseases
Jefferson Fox [1b]
- East West Center
- Land use and cover changes, social and environmental impact
Leonard A. Freed [1a]
- Department of Zoology
- Avian ecology, disease, interactions between disease and food limitation.
Alan Friedlander [2b]
- Department of Zoology
- Reef fish ecology, coral reef community structure, trophic dynamics, marine reserves, spatial and ecosystem ecology, statistical sampling design, species-habitat associations, nearshore fisheries, traditional and community-based fisheries management.
Roger Fujioka [2a]
- Water Resource Reseach Center
- Microbial ecology, water quality, water borne pathogens
Eric Gaidos [1c, 2b, 2c]
- Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Molecular evolution and speciation, animal-microbe interactions, microbial diversity
Ruth D. Gates [2b, 2c]
- Department of Oceanography
- Coral biology, ecophysiology, symbiology, evolutionary biology
Barbara A. Gibson [1b]
- Center for Conservation Research and Training
- Earth sciences, environmental change, geographic information systems
Duane J. Gubler [1a]
- Duke/NUS Graduate Medical School - Singapore
Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology - Arbovirology, zoonotic pathogens, emerging zoonotic diseases
Michael Hamnett [1b, 2a]
- Social Science Research Institute
- Coastal and ocean resource management
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
- Molecular genteics of diseases
John Hu [1b]
- Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
- Plant pathology, ecology, conservation of native Hawaiian plants
Cindy Hunter [1c, 2a]
- Waikiki Aquarium
- Invasive algae
- Center for Conservation Research and Training
- Evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, conservation biology
- NSF IGERT ECPB Executive Committee
Durrell D. Kapan [1a, 1b, 1c]
- Center for Conservation Research and Training
- NSF IGERT ECPB Executive Committee, Core Curriculum Team Leader
Alan Katz [1a]
- Department of Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
- Epidemiology, infectious diseases
Karl Kim [1b, 2a]
- Department of Urban Planning
- Urban ecosystems, environmental assessment, sustainability
Robert A. Kinzie, III [1c, 2a, 2c]
- Department of Zoology
- Aquatic biology, limnology, coral reef ecology
- NSF IGERT ECPB Co-PI
- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
- Virology, evolution of marine viral diseases
- NSF IGERT ECPB Co-PI
Nancy Lewis [1b, 2a]
- East West Center
- Medical geography, climate variability and health
Qing X Li [1a]
- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering
- Environmental biochemistry and biotechnology
Yuanan Lu [1a, 2a]
- Department of Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases
- Virology, immunology, marine viral pathogens
- NSF IGERT ECPB Core Curriculum Team
Jay Maddock [1a]
- Department of Public Health Sciences
- Social & Behavioral Health Sciences
- Department of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology
- Behavior Change
Vivek R. Nerurkar [1a]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Virology, emerging infectious diseases
Gary Ostrander [2a, 2b, 2c]
- Pacific Biosciences Research Center
- Marine environmental toxicology, coral reef ecology
- NSF IGERT ECPB Executive Committee
- Pew Institute for Ocean Sciences
- Fisheries science and management
Michael S. Rappé [2c]
- Department of Oceanography
- Molecular genetics, molecular ecology of marine microbes
Robert Richmond [2a, 2b]
- Pacific Biosciences Research Center
- Coral reef ecology, toxicology and marine conservation
- NSF IGERT Core Curriculum Team
- Department(s) of Economics and Geography
- Ocean and Coastal Law
Dan Rubinoff [1c]
- Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
- Systematics, invasive species, conservation biology, evolution
Lawren Sack [1c, 2a]
- Department of Botany
- Plant functions and responses to the environment
Steven E. Seifried [1b, 1c, 2a, 2c]
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
- Microbial pathogenesis, bioinformatics, oceans and human health
- Department of Oceanography
- Marine sediment ecology
James Spencer [1b]
- Department of Political Science
- Urbanization, infrastructure development and planning, urban planning and health,
economic development, public policy
- Department of Oceanography
- Microbial ecology, microbial diversity, oceans and human health
- Department of Public Health Sciences
- Environmental Health
Andrew D. Taylor [1c]
- Department of Zoology
- Population ecology, host-parasite interactions
Diane Taylor [1a]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Malariology, malaria infection and immune response in pregnant women
Bruce A. Wilcox [1a, 1b, 2a]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Population biology, emerging infectious diseases, conservation biology
- NSF IGERT ECPB PI, Director, Executive Committee
Karen Yamaga [1a]
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
- Microbiology, immunology, parasitology
Richard Yanagihara [1a]
- Departments of Pediatrics, Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology,
and Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology - Virology, zoonotic pathogens, emerging infectious diseases