Dr. Isabella A. Abbott

Wilder Professor of Botany, Emerita

Contact Information

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Botany Department
3190 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822

office: St. John 607A (808-956-8073)

General Interests

    Ethnobotany;  Hawaiian uses of plants; Taxonomy of marine algae; Edible and useful marine algae.

Graduate Students (Advisor)

• R. Ili [Committee Chair] (MS)
• Benton Pang [Committee Chair] (PhD)

Current Projects

• Kaho'olawe Island Commission
• Bishop Museum, Board of Directors
• Marine Algae of Hawai'i

Educational Background

• AB 1941, University of Hawaii
• MS 1942, University of Michigan
• PhD 1950, University of California, Berkeley

Recent Publications

• Abbott, I. A. 1999. Marine red algae of the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Press.
• Abbott, I. A. 1998.  Some new species and new combinations of marine red algae from the central Pacific.  Phycol.  Res. 46:97-109.
• Millar, A. J. K. and I. A. Abbott. 1997.  The new genus and species Ossiella pacifica (Griffithsieae, Rhodophyta) from Hawaii and Norfolk Ilsand, Pacific Ocean. J. Phycol. 33:88-96
• Kraft, G. T. and I. A. Abbott. 1997.  Platoma ardreanum (Schizymeniaeae, Gigartinales) and Halymenia chiangiana (Halymeniaceae, Halymeniales), two new species of proliferous, foliose red algae from the Hawaiian Islands.  Crypto.  Algol. 18:97-116.
• Kraft, G. T. and I. A. Abbott. 1998.  Gelidiella womersleyana (Gelidiales, Rhodophyta), a diminutive new species from the Hawaiian Islands.  Bot.  Mar. 41:51-61.
• Abbott, I. A. 1985-1997. Taxonomy of Economic Seaweeds I-VI. (editor). California Sea Grant Program Report     nos. T-CSGCP 11 (1985);  T-CSGCP 18 (1988);  T-CSGCP 23 (1992);  T-CSGCP 341 (1994);    T-CSGCP 35 (1995); 1997 (in press).
• Abbott, I. A. 1996. New species and notes on marine algae from Hawaii. Pac.  Sci. 50:142-156.
• Abbott, I. A. 1996. Ethnobotany of seaweeds: clues to uses of seaweeds. Hydrobiologia 326/327:15-20.
• Abbott, I. A. 1990. A taxonomic and nomenclatural assessment of the species of Liagora (Rhodophyta, Nemaliales) in the herbarium of Lamouroux. 1990. Crypto.    Algol. II: 111-136.