Pacific Internship Programs for Exploring Science (PIPES)

PIPES Alumni by Intern Year: 2000

All PIPES Alumni by Year

2000 University of Hawaiʻi Hawaiian Internship Program (UH-HIP) Interns

Aurora Kagawa

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Research on natural resources in Hawai'i—assist with variety of on-going natural resource research projects of Forest Service and associated researchers.

Mentor: Katherine Ewel.

Host Organization: Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service.

Candice Javar

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Koolau Mountains Watershed Partnership.

Mentor: Pat Costales/Earl Pawn.

Host Organization: DLNR-DOFAW.

Catherine Dano

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Mangrove Ecology on Oahu: Windward-Leeward Comparison.

Mentor: Jim Allen.

Host Organization: Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service.

Hina Kneubuhl

From: Maui.

Project: Dryland forest restoration and community outreach.

Mentor: Arthur Madeiros.

Host Organization: USGS PIERC.

Jon Arbles

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Native and Exotic Raspberries and Their Impacts on Native Forests: Habitats and Distributions.

Mentor: Julie Denslow, Robert Cabin, Duane Nelson, Susan Cordell.

Host Organization: Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.

Joshua DeMello

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Investigating Hawaiian Legends, Stories, and Oral Traditions of the Ahupua’a of Maunalua.

Mentor: Peter Rappa and Elizabeth Kumabe.

Host Organization: Haunama Bay Education Program, UH Sea Grant.

Kalani Spain

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Native and Exotic Raspberries and Their Impacts on Native Forests: Habitats and Distributions.

Mentor: Julie Denslow, Robert Cabin, Duane Nelson, Susan Cordell.

Host Organization: Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry USDA Forest Service.

Kaliko Amona

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Community Outreach Intern to conduct historical cultural research on Honouliuli Preserveq.

Mentor: Lance LaPierre.

Host Organization: The Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi.

Kia Weaver

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Acacia koa Seed Improvement at Low Elevation at the Use of Piper methysticum (Awa) as a Specialty Forest Production in a Koa Woodlot.

Mentor: Nick Dudley.

Host Organization: Hawaii Agriculture Research Center.

Lasha Salbosa

From: Maui.

Project: Endangered wildlife monitoring at Haleakala National Park.

Mentor: Cathleen Hodges.

Host Organization: Haleakala National Park.

Malia Lee

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Science on the Mountain - - Forest Research Interpretation for Koke’e Natural History Museum.

Mentor: David Penn.

Host Organization: Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service.

Robert Yamanoha

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Investigations of rare and alien plant species distribution and abundance, and vegetation structure, composition, and dynamics in the Ola`a-Kilauea Management Area.

Mentor: Jim Jacobi and Kealiʻi Bio.

Host Organization: USGS PIERC.

Sandee Hufana

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Stewardship Intern at Honouliuli Reserve.

Mentor: Dan Sailer.

Host Organization: The Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi.

2000 Micronesia and American Samoa Student Internship Program (MASSIP) Interns

Mila Misa

From: Hawaiʻi and American Samoa.

Project: Restoration of mangrove forest in American Samoa.

Mentor: Colin Steele.

Host Organization: ASCC Land Grant.