Chatham Callan, Associate Professor of Aquaculture
Associate Professor of Aquaculture Chad Callam researches rearing methods for Hawaiian reef fish, with applications in the aquarium trade and local fishing industries.
Category: Agriculture & Aquaculture
Nicholas Krueger, Assistant Professor of Agriculture
Nicholas Krueger’s areas of expertise are in grazing systems, tropical forages, livestock nutrition, and soil carbon. His research has wide impact: local farming and ranching, environmental and community health.
Armando García-Ortega, Professor of Aquaculture
Professor García-Ortega’s research shows that vegetarian diets can be fed not only to carnivorous fish, but to all commercially farmed fish.
Marcel Tsang, Professor of Agriculture (Retired)
Professor Tsang helped save Hawai‘i export market with innovative, non-chemical pest and pathogen treatments. He was part of a research team that received the 2010 Governor’s Award as State Team of the Year for developing hot water systems for disinfesting exports.
William Sakai, Professor of Horticulture (Retired)
Professor Sakai’s research focuses on biofuels and salinity, and Hawaiʻi P-20 agricultural education. His research in aroids, the plants of the arum family (Araceae) of which taro is a member, continued throughout his career.
Norman Arancon, Professor of Horticulture
Professor Arancon pioneered research in the utilization of earthworm-worked soil amendments, referred to as vermicomposts, in increasing the growth, flowering and yields of plants.
Michael Shintaku, Professor of Plant Pathology (Retired)
Professor Shintaku specializes in researching diseases of taro, ginger, and lettuce, all crops of the Hawai’i Island agricultural community.
Maria Haws, Professor of Aquaculture
Associate Professor Haws conducts applied research in industry development, technology transfer and student training. She also specializes in the fields of invertebrate biology, aquaculture and coastal management, and natural resources management policy.
Lorna Tsutsumi, Professor of Entomology (Retired)
Professor Lorna Tsutsumi specializes in honey bees in Hawaiʻi from hive to market to table.
