ME*E Lab Director

Rosie ʻAnolani Alegado, PhD

Associate Professor, Oceanography & Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program

KEY COLLABORATORS

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Shimi Rii, PhD

Research Coordinator, Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve

Assistant Specialist, Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology

Affiliate Graduate Faculty, Oceanography & Graduate Program in Marine Biology

Co-Founder, Science Communicators ʻOhana

Sara Kahanamoku-Meyer, PhD

SOEST Early Career Fellow, Sea Grant Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence

  • Conservation paleoecology

  • Indigenous STS

GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Becca Lensing, PhD candidate in Marine Biology

  • Funded by Hawaiʻi Sea Grant and the Department of Health, Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve

  • Metagenomics of heterotrophs within impacted coastal ecosystems

  • 18S reference database for choanoflagellates

Kuʻi Keliipuleole, MS, PhD program in Marine Biology

  • Recipient, Hauʻoli Mau Loa Fellowship (2020-2022), Ford Foundation Fellow (2022-2025)

  • Funded by NSF Geopath/SOEST Maile Mentoring Bridge, Kamehameha Schools, Hawaiʻi Pacific Foundation

  • Characterizing bottom-up controls on ʻōpaeʻula populations in anchialine habitats

Kelsie Kuniyoshi, STEM2 M.Ed. Curriculum Studies, Interdisciplinary Education

  • Environmental science curriculum development in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

Lani Musselman, MS candidate in Oceanography (Co-advised with Shimi Rii)

  • Funded by Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve, Hauʻoli Mau Loa Foundation (2022-2024)

  • Characterizing primary producers of Heʻeia Fishpond and Kāneʻohe Bay

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Nalani Olguin, PhD candidate in Marine Biology

  • Ford Fellow (2022-2025); NOAA Margaret A. Davidson Fellow

  • Recipient, Hauʻoli Mau Loa Graduate Fellowship (2019-2021);

  • Funded by Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve

  • Impact of introduced mammals on Pacific Island watersheds using microbial source tracking

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Eric Tong, MS candidate in Oceanography (co-advised with Rob Toonen, HIMB)

  • Recipient, Hauʻoli Mau Loa Graduate Fellowship (2021-2023)

  • Comparative analysis of Tahitian reef species population genetics under distinct management regimes

STAFF

Kyle Bosworth , Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve Technician

ALUMNI

Staff

  • Mirielle Lopez-Guzman, Technian

  • Nalani Olguin (UH Mānoa): NHSEMP fellow, 2017 NSF REU

  • Helen Turano, Staff Scientist

Postdoctoral researchers

  • Kiana Frank, Assistant Professor, UH Mānoa Pacific Biosciences Research Center

  • Daniel Amato, Environmental Scientist, EnviroServices and Training Center

Graduate students

  • Aka Beebe, MS Oceanography

  • Kilika Bennett, MA Hawaiian Language, Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language

  • Kuʻi Keliipuleole, MS Marine Biology

  • Paula Moehlenkamp, MS Oceanography (co-advised with Margaret McManus)

  • Hoaka Thomas, MS Marine Biology

  • Sheldon Rosa, Oceanography

Undergraduates

  • Jaimie Archambault (Sitting Bull Tribal College): 2017 NSF Biodiversity REU

  • Mikela Branco (UH Mānoa): NHSEMP fellow, Hulili Career Development Award, 2015 NSF Tribal REU

  • Nakoa Farrant (Harvard University): 2014 C-MORE Summer Fellow

  • Caleb Hsu (UH Mānoa): 2018-2019 GES thesis

  • Akamu Jaber (UH Mānoa): 2014-2015 C-MORE Scholar

  • Noeau Machado (UH Mānoa): GES thesis, Native Hawaiian Student Services ʻŌiwi Scholar

  • Madison Miura (Williams College): 2017 NSF Biodiversity REU

  • Allie Oxley (Heritage Tribal College): 2018 NSF Pacific Islander REU in Environmental Biology

  • Nicole Panos (UH Mānoa)

  • Keanu Rochette-Yu Tsuen (UH Mānoa): GES thesis, UROP, NIH-MARC Scholar

  • Leah Shizuru (Kapiolani Community College/UH Mānoa): 2015 NSF Tribal REU

  • Ryan Ueunten (UH Mānoa): GES thesis (co-advised with Axel Timmermann)

  • Shaun Wriston (UH Mānoa): 2018 NSF Pacific Islander REU in Environmental Biology

  • Kyle Yoshida (Harvard College): 2015 NSF Tribal REU

High School students

  • Hope Ushiroda-Garma (Kamehameha Schools Kapālama): 2015 C-MORE Summer Fellow