Mahany C. Abdullah
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Qi Chen
Office:
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Email: mahanya@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, GIS, forest fuel, wildfire

Jennifer Bernstein
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Alison Rieser
Office:
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Email: jbern@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Social construction of nature, environmental attitudes and values, American environmentalism, human-wildlife relations

Keith Andrew Bettinger
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Krisnawati Suryanata
Office: Saunders Hall 441
Office phone: (808) 956 7781
Email: keithb@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Political ecology of protected areas, remote sensing, geography curriculum design, place and political decentralization, human-environment Interactions

Hannah M. Cooper
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Qi Chen
Office: POST 721
Office phone: (808) 956-6754
Email: hannahco@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: The use of LiDAR remote sensing, GIS, and statistical modeling for assessing the impacts of sea-level rise on coastal communities and quantifying their uncertainties.

Chelsea Dau
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Matthew McGranaghan
Office:
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Email: dau@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: My research will be focusing on Applied GIS & Geopolitics regarding the U.S. - Mexico border. I also have professional and personal interest in land use, particularly in Hawaii and the Pacific.

Charles Devaney
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Qi Chen
Office: Physical Science 312B
Office phone: (808) 956-3694
Email: cdevaney@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in Near Earth Observation using low altitude sensor platforms in both tethered systems and UAV's for applications of Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing in Biogeography, Archeology, and Botany.

Abby G. Frazier
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Thomas Giambelluca
Office: Saunders Hall 418
Office Phone: 808-956-7294
Email: abbyf@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Climatology, GIS, geostatistics, land-atmosphere interactions, climate variability: ENSO & PDO, rainfall in Hawai‘i.

Anuradha (“Anu”) Gupta
Degree program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Mark Ridgley
Office:  Saunders 441
Office tel: 808-956-7781
Email: agupta@hawaii.edu
website:
Research Interests: I am interested in the relationships between water (quantity and quality), shifting biodiversity, land use change, and human decisions. I will do my research in Palau.

Jay Ireland
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Reece Jones
Office:
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e-mail: Ireland2@hawaii.edu
Website:
Research Interests: Cultural Geography and Political Geography.

Krista Jaspers
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Alison Rieser
Office: Saunders 404
Office Phone:
e-mail: kjaspers@hawaii.edu
Website:
Research Interests: I am interested in the relationships between tourism and conservation in Hawai'i, with a focus on spinner dolphin tourism and operator codes of conduct..

Lauren Kaiser
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca
Office: Saunders Hall 441
Office Phone:
e-mail: lkaiser@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Climatology, Tropical Weather and Climate, ENSO

Kyle Kajihiro
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Reece Jones
Office: Saunders Hall 432
Office phone:
Email: kkajihir@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Research interests: Political geography of U.S. militarization and imperialism in Hawaiʻi, Oceania and Asia. Globalization. Counter-militarization and decolonization movements. Local-Global networks for peace and social, economic, and environmental justice. Indigenous geographies.

Xiaofeng Kang
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor:
Office:
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e-mail: xk@hawaii.edu
Website: http://kmxiaofeng.ycool.com/
Research Interests: Political Ecology,Rural Development Management

Faith O. Knighton
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Alison Rieser
Office:
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e-mail: fopatrny@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Marine geography, coral reef ecology, ecosystem-based management, coastal and marine spatial planning, and ocean policy.

Lance “Mahi” La Pierre
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Stacy Jorgensen
Office:
Office Phone: (808) 282-4611 cell
e-mail to: lapierre@hawaii.edu
website:
Research Interests: Island biogeography; population genetics; resource management and conservation in the Hawaiian Islands; preservation of indigenous knowledge

Michel A. Laudier
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Matt McGranaghan
Office: Saunders Hall 410
Office Phone:
e-mail to: mlaudier@hawaii.edu
website:
Research Interests: Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Risk Management and Disaster Preparedness

Borjana Lubura-Winchester
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Reece Jones
Office: Saunders Hall 404
Office Phone: 808-956-3521
e-mail: borjana@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Nationalism, Sovereignty, Borders and Territoriality, Post-war Peace Building in The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republic of Srpska, Remote Sensing and GIS.

Maggie McCain Hirshen
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: David Beilman
Office: Saunders 441A
Office Phone: 808-956-9604
e-mail: hirshenm@hawaii.edu
Website:
Research Interests: Biogoegraphy, Botany, Restoration Ecology, Mediterranean ecosystems, Tropical Dry Forests.

Wendy Miles
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Dr. Krisna Suryanata
Office: Currently in Indonesia for fieldwork
Office Phone:
e-mail: wmiles@hawaii.edu
Website:
Research Interests: My work is concerned with how environmental conservation efforts can be made more socially inclusive and beneficial to people, while also becoming more effective at protecting species and ecosystem services. My academic areas of interest include political ecology, biodiversity conservation, and community-based natural resource management.

Nicole Milne
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata
Office: In the field, fall 2009 - fall 2010
Office Phone: (206) 718-0078
e-mail: nmilne@hawaii.edu
Website:
Research Interests: agricultural/rural geography, political economy of natural resources, culture and environment, environmental and social history

David Nguyen
Degree program: M.A.
Advisor: Mary McDonald
Office: Saunders Hall 441-A
Office phone:
Email: davidngu@hawaii.edu
website:
Research Interests: economic and tourism geography, transportation, GIS, with area focus on Japan, especially Okinawa, the former Soviet Union, especially Central Asia and the Russian Far East, and Southeast Asia.

Julius Paulo
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Ev Wingert
Office: PSB 313 A
Office Phone:
e-mail: paulojul@hawaii.edu

website:
Research Interests: Field Mapping, GIS, Cartography, Remote Sensing, Philippines.

Donovan C. Preza
Degree program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Ev Wingert
Office: PSB 313B
Office phone: (808) 956-8463
Email: preza@hawaii.edu
website:
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Cartography, Historical Geography, Hawai‘i, Hawaiian Land Tenure, Political Geography, History of Cartography, the Hawaiian State and Territoriality.

Jaya P. Reinhalter
Degree program: M.A..
Advisor: Reece Jones
Office: Saunders Hall 446
Office phone:
Email: JayaP@hawaii.edu
website:
Research Interests: I am interested in cultural and political geography, agrarian change in the context of the global economy, the feminization of labor, resistance movements, and eco-feminism in South Asia (specifically India).

Ben Schrager
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Mary McDonald
Office: Saunders Hall 411
Office Phone:
e-mail: schrager@hawaii.edu
Website:
Research Interests: agriculture and Japan. Secondary interests: identity, technology and soccer

Olivia Schubert
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: David Beilman
Office: Saunders Hall 411
Office Phone: (808) 956-7042
e-mail: oliviass@hawaii.edu
Website:
Research Interests: global environmental change, climatology, international sustainable development, conservation biology

Yuko Stender
Degree Program:  M.A.
Advisor: Ross Sutherland
Office: PSB 312B
Office Phone: 808-956-3694
E-mail: ystender@hawaii.edu
Personal Web Page: www.marinelifephotography.com
Research Interests: Landscape/Seascape ecology, ecosystem geography, biogeography, environmental geography, management and conservation of living marine resources in the Pacific

David Strauch
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Lyndon Wester
Office: PSB 313 B
Office Phone:
e-mail: strauch@hawaii.edu
Personal Web Page: www2.hawaii.edu/~strauch/
Research Interests: cultural biogeography of foodplants, ethnobotany of markets, discourses of place, cartography, film Mexico, Oceania

Rhonda R. Suka
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Ross Sutherland
Office: Saunders 431
Office Phone: 808-479-0160
e-mail: mall@hawaii.edu
Research Interests: Marine geomorphology, shallow water surveys, submerged Bronze Age landscapes of Crete, Greece, sea level change, GIS & remote sensing.

Kuan-Chi (K.C.)Wang