Faculty, Staff, and Students

Ocean Graduate Faculty

James P. Cowen

Research Professor; MGG Division Head

• Ph.D., U.C. Santa Cruz
• Microbial geochemistry; deep subseafloor biosphere; hydrothermal systems; aquatic pollution.
• jcowen@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Eric H. DeCarlo

Research Professor

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• specialty.
• edecarlo@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Brian Glazer

Assoc. Professor

• Ph.D., U. of Delaware
• Aquatic geomicrobiology; marine redox biogeochemistry; ocean observing technology.
• glazer@hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

David Ho

Professor

• Ph.D., Columbia University
• Air-water gas exchange; tracer and coastal oceanography; continental waters.
• ho@hawaii.edu
• SOEST Page

Christopher Measures

Professor

• Ph.D., U. of Southampton
• Trace element chemistry; biogeochemical effect of dust deposition to oceans; elemental mass balance.
• chrism@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Michael J. Mottl

Professor

• Ph.D., Harvard U.
• Geochemical implications of plate tectonics; interaction of seawater with oceanic crust; subduction zone fluids.
• mmottl@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Kathleen Ruttenberg

Assoc. Professor

• Ph.D., Yale U.
• Marine biogeochemistry and cycling of nutrients and redox-sensitive elements; sediment diagenesis; paleogeochemistry.
• kcr@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Frank Sansone

Professor

• Ph.D., U. of North Carolina
• Biogeochemistry and physical dynamics of permeable sediments; lava-seawater interactions; hydrothermal gas geochemistry.
• sansone@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Jane Schoonmaker

Specialist; Chair of Oceanography Undergraduate Studies

• Ph.D., Northwestern U.
• Sedimentary geochemistry and diagenesis.
• jane@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Richard Zeebe

Professor

• Ph.D., U. of Bremen
• Elemental cycling in the ocean, atmosphere and biosphere; ocean acidification; carbon cycle; paleoclimate.
• zeebe@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

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Emeritus Faculty

Barry Huebert

Emeritus Professor

• Ph.D., Northwestern U.
• Atmospheric chemistry.
• huebert@hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Telu Li

Emeritus Professor

• Ph.D., Columbia U.
• Geochemical cycles from solar nebula to human brain.
• yhli@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Fred Mackenzie

Emeritus Professor

• Ph.D., Lehigh U.
• Evolution of earth’s surface environment; biogeochemical cycles and global environmental change
• fredm@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Alexander Malahoff

Emeritus Professor

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• Geological oceanography, mineral formation; submarine volcanism and hydrothermal systems.
• malahoff@hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Stephen V. Smith

Emeritus Professor

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• Global biogeochemical cycles/budgets, nutrient and material fluxes/cycling, role of small water bodies in hydrology and material transport.
• svsmith@cicese.mx
• Oceanography Dept. Page

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Cooperating Graduate Faculty

Marlin Atkinson

Professor

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• Coral reef physiology and biogeochemistry; sensor development
• mja@hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Jim Falter

Assist. Researcher

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• Effects of hydrodynamics, light and chemistry on C, N, and P fluxes to coral reef communities.
• falter@hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Eric Gaidos

Assoc. Professor

• Ph.D., MIT
• Evolutionary biology and ecology; geobiology.
• gaidos@hawaii.edu
• Geology and Geophysics Dept. Page

John Wiltshire

Specialist; Chair of Ocean and Resources Enginering;
Assoc./Acting Director of HURL

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• Ocean resources, mineral economics; scientific submersible utilization.
• johnw@soest.hawaii.edu
• ORE Faculty Page

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Affiliated Research Faculty

Byron Blomquist

Assoc. Researcher

• Ph.D., Washington State U.
• Air/sea gas exchange, atmospheric chemistry of sulfur compounds.
• blomquis@hawaii.edu

Antony D. Clarke

Research Affiliate

• Ph.D., University of Washington
• Marine aerosols, biogeochemical cycles and optical properties.
• tclarke@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Steven Dollar

Specialist, SOEST at Large

• Ph.D. U. of Hawai‘i
• Nutrient dynamics in the coastal zone. Impacts to coral reefs.
• sdollar@soest.hawaii.edu

Mike Guidry

Assistant Specialist

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• Biogeochemical modeling, mineral precipitation/dissolution kinetics, K-12/university curriculum development.
• mguidry@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Steve Howell

Assistant Researcher

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• showell@soest.hawaii.edu
• HiGEAR Personnel Page

Vladimir “Volodia” Kapustin

Associate Researcher)

• degree
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• kapustin@soest.hawaii.edu
• HiGEAR Personnel Page

Samuel Kahng

Associate Resercher

Ph.D. University of Hawaii

Coral reef ecology.

skahng@hpu.edu 

HPU faculty page

Cameron McNaughton

Assistant Researcher

• B.S., U. of Waterloo; MS. and Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• specialty
• csmcnaug@hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

John Smith

Assoc. Specialist; Science Program Director for HURL

• Ph.D., U. of Hawai‘i
• Marine geophysics; seafloor imaging.
• jrsmith@hawaii.edu

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Administrative Support

Kathy Kozuma

Secretary

• kkozuma@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

Jana Seigaku

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Katie Young

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Research Associates

Chuck Fraley

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Chris Jones

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Liangzhong “John” Zhuang

Research Associate

• MS, U. of Rhode Island
• Radiative effects of aerosols in remote marine atmosphere; measurements of tropospheric nitric acid and aerosols.
• zhuang@soest.hawaii.edu
• Oceanography Dept. Page

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Recent PostDoctoral Researchers

Angelos Hannides

• Ph.D., U. of Hawaii, 2008
• Benthic ecosystem function, permeable sediment biogeochemsitry and biodiversity, animal-sediment interactions, benthic-pelagic matter-and-energy coupling, large organic falls and other chemosynthetic habitats, deep-sea habitats and biodiversity, early diagenesis in marine sediments.
• hannides@hawaii.edu

Mariko Hatta

• Ph.D., U. of Toyama, Japan
• Trace element; biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and dust deposition.
• mhatta@hawaii.edu or marikohatta@gmail.com

William T Hiscock

Assist. Researcher

• Ph.D., U. of Miami, RSMAS
• Biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and carbon
• hiscock@hawaii.edu
• Oceanography personal page

Tatjana Ilyina

Postdoctoral Researcher

• PhD, U. of Hamburg
• Modeling marine biogeochemical cycles.
• ilyina@soest.hawaii.edu

Francois Paquay

Assist. Researcher

• Ph.D., U. of Hawaii at Manoa
• Carbon cycle, ocean acidifcation, radiogenic isotopes.

Judith Wells

Assist. Researcher

• Ph.D., WHOI-MIT
• Ocean mixing processes, topographic effects, coastal circulation.
• wellsjr@hawaii.edu

Jingchuan Zhou

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• jczhou@hawaii.edu

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Recent Graduate Students

Patrick Drupp

Graduate Student

• B.S., Biophysics, Clemson University
• Specialty: Primary production and phytoplankton community structure in a subtropical reef environment
• drupp@hawaii.edu

Kristen Fogaren

Graduate Student

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• fogaren@hawaii.edu

Maxime Grand

Graduate Student

• M.S, Applied Marine Science, U. of Plymouth, UK; PGDip Sci, Environmental Science, U. of Auckland, NZ; B.S, Global Environmental Science, U. of Hawaii

• biogeochemistry of trace elements, oceanographic sensors and microfluidics

• maxime@hawaii.edu

Danielle Hoen

Graduate Student

• B.S., Global Environmental Science, U. of Hawaii, Manoa
• specialty
• hoen@hawaii.edu

Sean Jungbluth

Graduate Student

• B.S., Bacteriology, U. of Wisconsin at Madison
• Ocean basement fluid microbial ecology
• seanpj@hawaii.edu

Nemanja Komar

Graduate Student

• degree
• paleo-climate modeling
• komar@hawaii.edu

Huei-Ting “Tina” Lin

Graduate Student

• degree

• My research is to understand the biogeochemistry of the deep subseafloor crustal biosphere. 

• hueiting@hawaii.edu

Kathryn MacDonald

Graduate Student

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• kathryn2@hawaii.edu

Arisa Okazaki

Graduate Student

• degree
• marine biogeochemistry with an emphasis on global environmental change
• okazakia@hawaii.edu

Joy (Leilei) Shih

Graduate Student

• degree
• air-sea CO2 flux and ocean acdification
• joyshih@hawaii.edu

Rebecca Simpson

Graduate Student

• degree
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• rmcs@hawaii.edu

Robert Thompson

Graduate Student

• M.S., Hawai'i Pacific U.
• ocean acidification and carbonate geochemistry
• rthomps9@hawaii.edu

Michelle Wong

Graduate Student

• degree
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• mhw@hawaii.edu

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Recent Undergraduate Assistants

• Robert Barfield
• Jai Keep Barnes
• Chris Colgrove (top left)
• Angela Crandall (2nd from top left)
• Laura deGelleke
• Mike Gray
• Teh Soo Huey
• Danielle Hull
• Nemanja (Nemo) Komar
• Justin Lam
• Caitlyn Lawrence
• Judy Lee
• Keo Lopes
• Ryan Matsumoto (center left)
• Kyle Norman
• Sean Ogata
• Amanda Ricardo (2nd from bottom left)
  • B.S. with High Honors, University of Hawaii, Global Environmental Science
    “Influence of sediment composition on redox speciation within a Hawaiian coastal fishpond”
• Ryan Sasaki (bottom left)
• Margaret Shum
• Daniel Sulak

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Recent High School Students

• Terry Lee (Roosevelt HS)
• Linrui Li (UH Lab School)
• Lili Zhao (Punahou)