Current MA and PhD Students
The following are select graduate degree candidates.
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Carter Beale
Email: carter45@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Social-Ecological Systems, Watershed Management, Biocultural Restoration, Climate Adaptation, Coastal Resilience, Political Ecology, California, Hawaiʻi
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Aron Boettcher
Email: aronab@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Forests, Carbon, Biomass, Lidar, Imagery, Satellite, Photosynthesis, Machine Learning
Advisor: Qi Chen
Shannon Chambers
Email: smchamb@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Human-Environment Relations, Political Ecology, Agriculture, Food Security, Sustainability, Indonesia
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Grace Chun
Email: gychun@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Migration, Spaces of Sanctuary, Citizenship, Transnationalism
Advisor: Reece Jones
Ashley Clark
Email: anclark@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Tea Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Multispecies Interfaces, Ethnography, Taiwan, China
Advisor: Hong Jiang
Anna Duerr
Email: aduerr@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Food Access and Security, Hunan-Environment Interactions, Sustainability, Agriculture
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Rollan C. Geronimo
Email: rollan@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management, Climate and Ocean Change Impacts on Marine Resources, GIS, Remote Sensing, Data Visualization, Spatial Pattern Analyses
Advisor: Camilo Mora
Jocelyn Grandinetti
Email: jwgrand3@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Biocultural Restoration, Political Economy, Community-Based Resource Management, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Human-Environment Relationships, Socioecological Systems
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Michelle Harangody
Email: msharan@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Ecology, STS, Marine Policy and Conservation, Corals, Tourism, Thailand, Hawaiʻi
Advisor: Mary Mostafanezhad
Meagan Harden
Email: mharden@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Feminist Geopolitics, Critical Border Studies, Migration and Mobility, Imperialism, Gender and Embodiment
Advisor: Reece Jones
Hunter Heaivilin
Email: huntersh@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Agro-food Systems, Land Use Change and Planning, Climate Change, Pacific Islands
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Sasha Helfner
Email: helfner@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Water Access, Protection, & Conservation, Medical Geography, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Cesspools in HI
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Tatsuki Kohatsu
Email: kohatsut@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Geopolitics, Militarization, Tourism, Islands, Okinawa
Advisor: Mary Mostafanezhad
Dalilah Laidin
Email: dalilahn@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Heritage Landscapes, Critical Tourism Studies, Southeast Asia
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Amanda Lambert
Email: aml7@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, LiDAR, GIS, Imagery, Geospatial Technologies, Environment, Climate Change, Water Quality
Advisor: Qi Chen
Borjana Lubura
Email: borjana@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Geopolitics, Borders, Sovereignty, Humanitarian Intervention,The European/Balkan Refugee/Migration Crisis, Human Trafficking/Human Rights, Area: Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria
Advisor: Reece Jones
Amiti Maloy
Email: amiti@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Blue Economy, Tourism, Feminist Geographies, Ocean and Coastal Studies, Geopolitics, Political Ecology, Marine Conservation, Social Change
Advisor: Marina Karides
Olivia Meyer
Email: oliviacm@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Feminist Geographies, Southeast Asia, Plastic Waste, Climate Justice, Feminist Theory, Social Movements, Thailand
Advisor: Mary Mostafanezhad
Heidi Needham
Email: hneedham@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Ecological Climatology, Climate Change, Climate Models, Natural Resource Management, Science Education, Outreach Activities with Underrepresented Groups
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca
Joan Pan
Email: jpan@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Tea, Health, Well-Being, Social Media
Advisor: Hong Jiang
Marcus Peng
Email: marcuspe@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Coastal Management, Ecosystem Service Valuation, Outdoor Recreation, Experimental Methods, Causal Inference
Advisor: Brian Szuster
Foley Pfalzgraf
Email: foleycp@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Resilience and Adaptation, Nature Based Solutions, Forestry, South Pacific, Vanuatu
Advisor: Mary Mostafanezhad
LiEllen Rhame
Email: lrhame@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Human and Nonhuman Animal Interaction, China, Cultural Geography, Terror Management Theory, Environment
Advisor: Hong Jiang
Leif Salveson
Email: leifsalv@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Political Economy, Community Supported Fisheries
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Kristen Sanfilippo
Email: ksanfili@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Statistical Downscaling, Rainfall, Hawaiʻi Climate
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca
Renee Setter
Email: rsetter@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Marine Ecology, Climate Change, Climate Models, GIS, Big Data Analysis
Advisor: Camilo Mora
Yuko Stender
Email: ystender@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Responses of Coral Communities to Human-Induced Environmental Changes, Coral Reef Recovery from Impacts of Land-Derived Material, Landscape Ecology, Spatial Statistics, GIS
Advisor: Ross Sutherland
Henryk Szadziewski
Email: henryksz@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Geography, Economic Marginalization, Geoeconomics, Globalization, Academic Freedom, Sport and Identity, Oceania, China, Uyghurs, Overseas Chinese
Advisor: Mary Mostafanezhad
Katie Taladay
Email: taladay@hawaii.edu · Taladay on ResearchGate
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Coastal Ecosystems, Benthic Habitat Mapping, Carbon Cycling, UAS Technologies, Participatory Science
Advisor: Qi Chen
Hannah von Hammerstein
Email: hfvh@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Coastal & Marine Ecosystems, Effects of Climate Change on Organisms, Climate-driven Species Range Shifts and Their Ecological & Societal Consequences, Eastern Tropical Pacific
Advisor: Camilo Mora
Kira Webster
Email: kiramw@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Climate Change Effects, Native Hawaiian Plant Populations, Reforestation, Island Biodiversity Conservation
Advisor: Camilo Mora
Laura Williams
Email: lauralw@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Rural Studies, Tourism, Islands, Political Economy, Development
Advisor: Mary Mostafanezhad
Kawēlau (Michelle) Wright
Email: kawelau.wright@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Hawaiʻi, Pacific Islands, Oceania, Political Geography, Political Ecology, Indigenous Geographies, Imperialism
Advisor: Reece Jones