Pacific Southwest Research Station

The Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry has been a center of research and technology transfer for matters of management, preservation, and restoration of natural ecosystems and landscapes throughout the Pacific. the Institute's area of responsibility includes seven US affiliated political entities in the Pacific: the State of Hawaii, the Territory of Guam, the Territory of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.

Research

• Provisional Research Portfolio
• Overview of Resources

Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry

Program Manager

• Scowcroft, Paul - Acting Institute Director

Principal Research Scientist

• Cordell, Susan - Research Ecologist
• Giardina, Christian - Research Ecologist
• Hughes, R. Flint - Research Ecologist
• Johnson, M. Tracy - Research Entomologist
• Liang, Christina - Research Ecologist
• MacKenzie, Richard - Research Ecologist

Post-doctoral Researcher

• Puliafico, Kenneth - Research Entomologist
• Vaughn, Nick - Research Ecologist
• Warman, Laura - Research Ecologist

Research Staff

• Brooks, Samuel - Ecologist
• Chaney, Nancy - Biological Sciences Technician
• Cole, Thomas G. - Forester
• Dean, Melissa - Biological Sciences Technician
• Falanruw, Marjorie - Natural Resources Technology Transfer Specialist
• Francisco, Kainana - Student Trainee, Natural Resources Mgmt
• Kinney, Kealohanuiopuna - Student Trainee, Physical Sciences
• Uowolo, Amanda - Ecologist
• Sowards, Travis - Student Trainee, Natural Resources Mgmt

Region 5, State and Private Forestry

• Friday, Kathleen S. - Cooperative Forester