Graduate Students

Thomas R. Belfield
Degree Program: M.A
Advisor: Jon Goss
Office: Saunders Hall 441
Office phone: (808) 956 7781
Email: belfield@hawaii.edu
Website: http://tbelfield.wordpress.com
Research Interests: Urban and cultural geography, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Jakarta.

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

Jean L. Evers
Degree program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Mary McDonald
Office: Saunders Hall 441-A
Office phone: 956-9604
Email: jeane@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests: cultural and historical geography, landscape representation, imaginative geographies, signs of resistance in landscape, material culture, Pacific region

Abby Frazier
Degree program: M.A.
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca
Office: Saunders Hall 418
Office phone: 956-7294
Email: abbyf@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests: land-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric circulation, using remote sensing and GIS to monitor land use change and climate change.

Anuradha (“Anu”) Gupta
Degree program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Mark Ridgley
Office:  Saunders 441
Office tel: 808-956-7781
Email: agupta@hawaii.edu
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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.

Zulhan A. Harahap
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Matt McGranaghan
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e-mail: zulhan@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests: coastal/resources geography, Eastern Indonesia small islands.

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

Aaron Kingsbury
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Mary McDonald

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Email: aaronjk@hawaii.edu
Website: www.dancingchopsticks.org
Research Interests: agriculture and food geographies of East Asia

Jack Kittinger
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Hong Jiang
Office: Saunders Hall 432
Office Phone: 808-956-3516
e-mail: jkittinger@gmail.com
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jkitt/
Research Interests: resource management, social-ecological system dynamics, and conservation of marine ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago and the Asia-Pacific region.

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

Kaimana Lee
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Brian Szuster
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e-mail: khllee@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests: coastal geography, environmental policy, Hawaiian geography, outdoor recreation geography, environmental impact, Hawaiian language and politics.

Ryan Longman
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca
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e-mail: rlongman@hawaii.edu
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Serge A. Marek
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Brian Murton (emeritus)
Office: Hawai'i Pacific University, 1188 Fort Street Mall, MP 307, 96813
Office Phone: 808-544-1415
email: smarek@hpu.edu or sergeansen@gmail.com
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Research Interests: cultural an urban geography, indigenous urbanization and urbanism, geographies of development, tourism geographies, and geographic education

Bixler McClure
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Brian Szuster
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e-mail: bmcclure@hawaii.edubmcclure@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests: Environmental management; environmental psychology; social, cultural, and environmental impacts of recreational activities (especially SCUBA diving)

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
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Research Interests: agricultural/rural geography, political economy of natural resources, culture and environment, environmental and social history

Ryan Mudd
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Tom Giambelluca
Office: Saunders Hall 414
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e-mail: rmudd@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests:quantifying hydrological fluxes in Hawaiian forests using micro-meteorological measurements; remote sensing and land use change relating to hydrology and ecology.

Adrian Ramirez
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Matthew McGranaghan
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e-mail: adrianer@hawaii.edu

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Research Interests: Using Geographic Information Systems as a tool in fisheries resource management.

Leandro Romero
Degree: M.A.
Advisor: Mary McDonald
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Email: haifahome3@YAHOO.COM
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Jon Schmitz
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Krisna Suryanata, Jon Goss
Office: Saunders Hall
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e-mail: jmschmit@hawaii.edu
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Research interests: My interests include analyzing agri-tourism, biotechnology, and sustainable food systems with a focus on political economy and cultural geography perspectives.

Kostantinos (Kosta) Stamoulis
Degree Program: M.A.
Advisor: Brian Szuster
Office: Saunders Hall 411
Office Phone: (808) 956-7042
e-mail: kostanti@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests: Marine and coastal resource management.

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
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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

Kuan-Chi (K.C.)Wang
Degree Program: Ph.D.
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e-mail: kcwang@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests: Water resource geography, water law, political-cultural ecology, political-economy of space, northwest of China, south Taiwan.

Lisa Wedding
Degree Program: Ph.D.
Advisor: Stacy Jorgensen
Office: PSB 312 B
Office Phone: 808-956-3694
e-mail: wedding@hawaii.edu
Website: www2.hawaii.edu/~wedding/
Research Interests: marine landscape ecology, conservation biology, GIS, remote sensing, LiDAR