PIPES Alumni by Intern Year: 2006

Adam Baker

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Coral disease in Hawaii.

Mentor: Teresa Lewis.

Host Organization: Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology.

Chelsea Dudoit

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Hawksbill Sea Turtle Recovery Program: Endangered Species Management and Community Education.

Mentor: William Seitz/Kyle Kagimoto.

Host Organization: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park- Hawksbill Turtle Project.

Daniel Kawahakui

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Kamehameha Schools Water Resources.

Mentor: Kaeo Duarte.

Host Organization: Kamehameha Schools.

Dillon Yeung

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Selecting for Genetic Resistence to Fursarium oxyxporum (Koa Wilt) in Koa for Conservation, Restoration, and Utilization in Hawaiʻi.

Mentor: Nick Dudley.

Host Organization: USDA IPIF.

Jacqueline Chow Hoy

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: How Much Carbon is in Our Forest? Determining Height-to-Diameter Relationships of Common Native and non-Native Tree Species to Estimate the Above Ground C across Forested Hawaiian Landscapes.

Mentor: Flint Hughes.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service.

James Akau

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Hawaiian Ecosystem Monitoring and 50 year sampling of Norm Carlson's Kona Brush Plots.

Mentor: Willie Rice.

Host Organization: Forest Solutions, Inc..

Jessica Chong

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Pahole Rare Plant Program.

Mentor: Doug Okamoto.

Host Organization: DLNR Forestry and Wildlife.

Kaiʻena Bishaw

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Impacts of Land-Cover/Land Use Change on Water Quality: Sampling Stream Chemistry from Forest to Sea.

Mentor: Flint Hughes.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service.

Kara Amber Lee

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Hawaiian Monk Seal Health and Disease Research.

Mentor: Lizabeth Kashinsky.

Host Organization: NOAA/NMFS/PIFSC.

Katie Kamelamela

From: Oʻahu.

Project: NOAA Watershed Project.

Mentor: David Penn.

Host Organization: Department of Health.

Kristi Kaʻapu

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: How Much Carbon is in Our Forest? Determining Height-to-Diameter Relationship of Common Native and Non-Native Tree Species to Estimate the Above Ground C across Forested Hawaiian Landscapes.

Mentor: Flint Hughes.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service IPIF.

Lisa Shizuma

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Impacts of Land-Cover/Land Use Change on Water Quality: Sampling Stream Chemistry from Forest to Sea.

Mentor: Flint Hughes.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service.

Maricia Save

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: GIS Mapping of Botanical Surveys and Accession Data at Amy Greenwell EthnoBotanical Garden.

Mentor: Peter Van Dyke & Noa Lincoln.

Host Organization: Amy Greenwell EthnoBotanical Gardens/Bishop Museum.

Mark Manuel

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: NOAA Watershed Project.

Mentor: Tracy Weigner.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Marty Kawaski

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Parasitism of Biological Control Agents on Rubus Species.

Mentor: Tracy Johnson.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service.

Moana Ulu Ching

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Natural Resource Investigation at Kaloko-Honokohau NHP.

Mentor: Richard Boston.

Host Organization: Koloko-Honokohau National Park.

Morgan Mamizuka

From: Oʻahu.

Project: Hanauma Bay Natural Science Education.

Mentor: Elizabethe Kumabe.

Host Organization: Hawaiʻi Sea Grant/Hanauma Bay Education Program.

Nicolai Barca

From: Kauaʻi.

Project: Assistance with Implementation of Kauai Watershed Management Plan.

Mentor: Sarah Newton.

Host Organization: Nature Conservancy.

Owen Haleakala

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Genetic Identification of Hawaiian Coral Larvae.

Mentor: Misaki Takabayashi.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Virlinda Craft

From: Maui.

Project: Reef Monitoring Database.

Mentor: Patty Miller.

Host Organization: Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.

Barbara Rowe

Project: Seed Ecology of Lowland Wet Forest Species.

Mentor: Becky Ostertag.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Frances Kinslow

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Project: Detrital Cycles in Hawaiian Streams: Impacts of Land Use and Invasive Riparian Species and the Role of Micro-organisms.

Mentor: Richard MacKenzie, USDA Forest Service.

Jack Freitas

Project: Adaptive Divergence and Evolution of ʻŌhiʻa.

Mentor: Elizabeth Stacy.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Kari-Ann Shozuya

From: Hawaiʻi.

Project: Detrital cycles in Hawaiian streams: Impacts of land use and invasive riparian species and the role of microorganisms.

Mentor: Richard Mackenzie.

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

Kevin Pien

Project: Coqui and Vegetation Interactions.

Mentor: Becky Ostertag.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Magda Benavides

Project: Avian Malaria.

Mentor: Sue Jarvi.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Nate Olson

Project: Coral Reef Ecology.

Mentor: Misaki Takabayashi.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Stefanie Willis

Project: Temperature Gradient Effects on Endangered Hawaiian Damselflies.

Mentor: David Foote, USGS.

Trisann Mahealani Bambico

Project: Population Genetics of Amphidromous Fish Across the Islands of Hawai'i.

Mentor: Cam Muir.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Usha Herald

Project: Palila Sexing.

Mentor: Sue Jarvi.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.

Zach Stornant

Project: Monitoring Biological Control Agents on Rubus Species.

Mentor: Tracy Johnson.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service.

Javez Mooteb

From: Yap.

Mentor: Margie Falanruw.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service Yap.

Julie Sigrah

From: Kosrae.

Mentor: Richard Mackenzie.

Host Organization: USDA Forest Service.