PIPES Alumni by Intern Year: 2009

Adrian DeMello

Project: Building a Community with the Community.

Mentor: Mililani Browning, Jayson Panglao.

Host Organization: Three Mountain Alliance: GIS.

Anthony Olayon

Project: Coastal Currents around the Big Island of Hawaii.

Mentor: Noelani Puniwai.

Host Organization: Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center.

Arik Dadez

Project: Kukulu Hou i ka Loko Iʻa o Koʻieʻie.

Mentor: Joylynn Paman.

Host Organization: ʻAoʻao o nā Loko Iʻa o Maui.

Arthur Khamsing

Project: Dispersal of Invasive Seeds.

Mentor: Susie Lott.

Host Organization: Oʻahu Invasive Species Committee.

Ashley-Ann Shaw

Project: Kipuka Field System, Saddle Road.

Mentor: Christian Giardina.

Host Organization: US Forest Service.

Brice Murayama

Project: Native Hawaiian Plants at Kealia Pond.

Mentor: Glynnis Nakai.

Host Organization: US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Ciara Ganter

Project: Predator Control for Native Hawaiian Waterbirds at Kealia Pond National Wildlife.

Mentor: Glynnis Nakai & Mike Nishimoto.

Host Organization: US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Eddie Wine

Project: Watershed Management of the West Maui Mountains.

Mentor: Chris Brosius.

Host Organization: West Maui Mountain Watershed Partnership.

James Akau

Project: Weed Control Technician.

Mentor: Shalan Crysdale, John Repoglo.

Host Organization: The Nature Conservancy.

Kaimi Moraes

Project: Evaluating reforestation techniques in Kanakaleonui.

Mentor: Cheyenne Perry & Mike Robinson.

Host Organization: US Forest Service, Department and Hawaiian Home Lands.

Kim Morishige

Project: Weed Control of Invasive Grasses in Kanakaleonui.

Mentor: Cheyenne Perry.

Host Organization: US Forest Service.

Liʻula Mahi

Project: The Kamehameha Butterfly and Insect Exhibition.

Mentor: Peter Vandyke.

Host Organization: Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Gardens.

Linnea Heu

Project: Inventory of Invasive Threats to Kaua'i.

Mentor: Karen Gundersen.

Host Organization: Kauaʻi Invasive Species Committee.

Mahina Patterson

Project: Pre-Contact agriculture in the Kohala Field System: How was it sustained?.

Mentor: Peter Vitousek.

Host Organization: Stanford University.

Natalie Kurashima

Project: Developing Cultural Education Materials of Hanauma Bay.

Mentor: Liz Kumabe.

Host Organization: Hanauma Bay Education Program.

Octavia Price

Project: Endangered Species Management and Community Education.

Mentor: William Seitz.

Host Organization: Hawaii Hawksbill Turtle Recovery Project.

Puaʻala Pascua

Project: Ideal Propagation Techniques for Olona (Touchardia latifolia) Urtiaceae.

Mentor: Richard Sears & Liloa Dunn.

Host Organization: Lyon Arboretum.

Roxie Sylva

Project: Kukulu Hou i ka Loko Iʻa o Koʻieʻie.

Mentor: Joylynn Paman.

Host Organization: ʻAoʻao o na Loko Iʻa o Maui.

Winona Coelho

Project: Sea urchin spawning trials in Tripneustes Gratilla.

Mentor: Maria Haws.

Host Organization: Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center.

Annette Ah Young

Project: Isolation and characterization of environmental pollutant degrading bacteria.

Mentor: Jonathan D. Awaya.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Biology.

Darcey Iwashita

Project: Impact of mean annual temperature on native and non-native plant species diversity in Hawaiian rainforests.

Mentor: Creighton Litton, Christian Giardina.

Host Organization: National Resource and Environmental Management, US Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.

Heather Gleason

Project: Ecology and restoration of Hawaiian dryland ecosystems.

Mentor: Erin Questad, Susan Cordell.

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

Jeremy Albano

Project: Impact of mean annual temperature on native and non-native plant species diversity in Hawaiian rainforests.

Mentor: Creighton Litton, Christian Giardina.

Host Organization: Natural Resource and Environmental Management, US Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.

Lopaka Inciong

Project: Nutrient dynamics in coral reef environments.

Mentor: Tracy Wiegner.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Marine Science.

Nakoa Goo

Project: Importance of Secondary Consumers in Hawaii Coral Reef Ecosystems.

Mentor: Jim Beets.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Marine Science.

Niegel Rozet

Project: Characterizing Skeletal Growth Anomaly (SGA) in Montipora Capitata.

Mentor: Misaki Takabayashi.

Host Organization: University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Marine Science.

Russell Auwae

Project: Strawberry Guava Research Project.

Mentor: Christian Giardina.

Host Organization: US Forest Service.

Bond Segal

Project: Impacts of Sakau Plantations use on the biodiversity and other ecological parameters of Micronesian streams.

Mentor: Richard MacKenzie.

Host Organization: US Forest Service.

Javez Mooteb

From: Yap.

Project: YAP Marine Resources.

Mentor: Andy Tafileichig.

Host Organization: Marine Resources Division.

Tua Gaoteote

Project: Forest Inventory work in the Laupahoehoe unit of the Hawaii Experimental Tropical Forest.

Mentor: Flint Hughes, Amanda Uowolo, Tavita Togia.

Host Organization: US Forest Service & National Park of American Samoa.