Dr. Carolyn Faithfull is an aquatic ecologist, who has recently joined the team at the University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology (SOEST), for a 3 year post-doc research project. Dr. Faithfull specialises in studying food web interactions in pelagic ecosystems and how the balance of algal to bacterial food for zooplankton … Continued
Erica Goetze is a biological oceanographer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research focuses on the ecology, genetics and evolution of marine zooplankton. She is currently funded by the National Science Foundation to work in two primary research areas: (1) population genetics/genomics of marine zooplankton, and … Continued
Thomas Decloedt is a postdoctoral researcher in physical oceanography at the University of Hawaii. Originally from Belgium, Thomas obtained an M.S. in physics from Imperial College in the UK followed by a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Hawaii. His dissertation work focused on the spatial distribution of small-scale turbulent mixing in the deep … Continued
Danielle Hoen is a second year master’s student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She earned her B.S. in global environmental science from UH Manoa where she worked in Dr. Brian Popp’s Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab. Her research tested the applicability of a unique isotopic technique—compound specific isotope analysis of amino acids—in food web … Continued
Natasha Griswold is currently pursuing her undergraduate B.S. degree in global environmental sciences at University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is originally from Orange, California and transferred after one year at Irvine Valley College. She plans to spend her summer at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology working on her thesis, and obtaining her scuba … Continued
Florian Hillenhagen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii. He graduated from the University of Stuttgart, Germany with an M.S. in mechanical engineering in 2011. After two years of aerodynamic simulations work for the automotive industry he moved to Hawaii in 2014 to get a Ph.D. in ocean and resources engineering. His research is … Continued
Whitney Ko is an undergraduate student at the University of Hawaii studying to receive a B.S. in global environmental science. She spent the past summer in the Peruvian Amazon Forest, interning for Associación Fauna Forever, studying and contributing to the long-term wildlife monitoring project of Caimans. Her interests are mainly biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration. … Continued
Sherry Chou was born in Taiwan and moved to California with her family when she was 7. She studied physics and mathematics at the University of California, and then international education policy at Harvard University. After some years working with non-profits and Peace Corps, in 2010 Sherry joined the Oceanography Department at UH Manoa, where … Continued
Cait Demers grew up in Rhode Island and has been living in Hawaii for two years. Although she enjoys her career as a CT Technologist, she is pursuing a new career in global environmental science to take her love of nature even further. She enjoys traveling, hiking, stand up paddle boarding, yoga, scuba diving, and … Continued
Born and raised in Hawai’i, Eric Shimabukuro has overcome his childhood fear of the ocean and embraced the immersive worlds of environmental and oceanographic science. He will graduate from the University of Hawai’i this summer with a degree in global environmental science (GES), a program that he highly recommends to any incoming freshmen seeking a … Continued
