Past Graduate Students

 

(that have gone on to bigger and better things)

 

 

Jason Adolf (MS) 1996.

Characterization of an endonuclease in Scytonema oscillatum.

Current Position: PhD student at University of Maryland

 

 

Vickie Caraway (MS) 1997.

Hybridization, Introgression and Speciation among Dubautia species (Asteraceae: Madiinae).

Current Position:  The Hawaii State Botanist

 

 

Dana Weniger (MS) 1997.

Biogeography and Systematics of some Pacific Rubus Species: Investigating the Evolutionary History of the Hawaiian Endemic Raspberry Rubus macraei.

Current Position:  Self employed

 

 

James Kwon (MS) 1999.

Genetic Variation in kauila, Colubrina oppositifolia Brongn. ex Mann (Rhamnaceae) and Alphitonia ponderosa Hillebr. (Rhamnaceae), rare and endemic Hawaiian Dry Forest Trees.

Current Position: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu

 

 

Wisteria Loeffler (MS) 1997.

Population genetics and ethnobotany of olana, Touchardia latifolia (Urticaceae).

Current Position: Biology teacher, California Community College System

 

 

Timothy Motley (PhD) 1996.

Biosystematics and Reproductive Biology of the Endemic Hawaiian Genus Labordia Gaud. (Loganiaceae).

Current Position: Director, Molecular Systematics Lab, New York Botanical Gardens

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Rebecca Randell (MS) 2000.

Hybridization between naturalized and Endemic Rubus (Rosaceae) Species in Hawai‘i.

Current Position: PhD student at Indiana University with Loren Rieseberg

 

 

Susan Grose (MS) 1999.

Systematics and Biogeography of Metrosideros Banks ex. Gaertn. Subgenus Metrosideros in the Pacific Basin.

Current Position: PhD student at the University of Washington with Dick Olmstead

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