Faculty

Office: Holmes Hall 346
Phone: (808) 956-7298
Fax: (808) 956-5014
E-mail: rbabcock@hawaii.edu
Related web page: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/CE/babcock.html

Education:
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1989
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1987

Fields of Interest:
Biological Water and Wastewater Treatment
Biodegradation of Toxic/Hazardous Waste
Water Reuse
Membrane Separations

Office: Krauss # 19
Phone: (808) 956-7362
Fax: (808) 956-3980
E-mail: jcusick@hawaii.edu
Related web page:

Education:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Hawai'i, 2003
M.A., Geography, University of Hawai'i, 1994
BA, Geography, Latin American Studies, Spanish, California State University Chico, 1985

Fields of interest:
Environmental History
Environmental Education
Protected Area Politics
Ecotourism

Office: POST Building 709A
Phone: (808) 956-6331
Fax: (808) 956-5512
E-mail: elkadi@hawaii.edu
Related web page: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/FACULTY/aly/

Education:
Ph.D. Groundwater Hydrology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1983
M.S. Surface Water Hydrology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1976
B.S. Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1971

Fields of interest:
Watershed Modeling and Analysis
Application and Assessment of Various Types of Groundwater Models
Modeling Multiphase Flow and Transport of Hydrocarbons
Numerical Modeling
Flow and Transport in Field Soils
Databases and Geographic Information Systems
Bioremediation in Tidal Aquifers
Contamination by Agricultural and Cesspool Sources

Office: Holmes Hall 280
Phone: (808) 956-3096
Fax: (808) 956-5044
E-mail: roger@hawaii.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Virology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1970
M.S., Microbiology, University of Hawaii, 1966
B.S., Medical Technology, University of Hawaii, 1960

Fields of interest:
Environmental Microbiology
Environmental Virology
Aquatic and Terrestrial Microbiology
Public Health Microbiology
Disinfection Toxins in Water
Water Quality Standards
Bacterial Contamination
Viral Contamination

Office: Holmes Hall 182
Phone: (808) 956-3639
E-mail: virglau@aol.com

Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1959
M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1955
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1953

Fields of interest:
Waste Water Irrigation
Water Quality Assessment
Hydrologic Evaluation of Water Resources
Groundwater Hydrology
Hydrology of the Hawaiian Islands
Research Administration

Office: POST Building 203F
Phone: (808) 956-7658
Fax: (808) 956-5014
E-mail: liu@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
Related web page: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/~liu/

Education:
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1976
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi 1969
B.S., Agricultural/Water Resources Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1966

Fields of interest:
Flood Hydrograph Analysis
Pesticide Transport in Soils
Wastewater Treatment and Disposal
Water Quality Modeling

Office: Holmes Hall 283/Saunders Hall 530
Phone: (808) 956-7847/956-7143
Fax: (808) 956-5044
E-mail: jmoncur@hawaii.edu
Related web page: http://webdata.soc.hawaii.edu/economics/Faculty.CFM

Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, 1971
M.A., Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1965
B.A., Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1964

Fields of interest:
Economics of Water Resources
Pricing and Financing Urban Water Systems
Water Rights
Rent Seeking Behavior in Water Allocation
Conservation and Economic Efficiency
Water Allocation during Droughts

Office: Holmes Hall 280
Phone: (808) 956-3097
Fax: (808) 956-5044
E-mail: morav@hawaii.edu

Education:
M.P.H. Public Health, University of Hawaii, 1989
M.S., Geography, University of Victoria, B.C. Canada

Fields of interest:
Environmental Health
Contaminant Fate and Transport
Groundwater Hydrology
Land-Based Over-the-Horizon Ocean Radar
Watershed Studies

Office: POST Building 203H
Phone: (808) 956-9652
Fax: (808) 956-5014
E-mail: cray@hawaii.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1994
M.S., Civil Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1984
M.Sc., Agricultural Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1982
B.S., Agricultural Engineering, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, India 1980

Fields of interest:
Understanding the Dynamics of Flow and Contaminant Transport at Bank Filtration Sites
Virus, Pesticides, and Pharmaceutical Transport in Tropical Soils
Hydrologic Balance for Alternate Cover Materials for Landfill Capping
Neural Networks in Pesticide Vulnerability Assessment of Domestic Wells

Office: Krauss Annex # 19
Phone: (808) 956-3974
Fax: (808) 956-3980
E-mail: silvius@hawaii.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1999
M.S., Department of Zoology, University of Floirda, Gainesville, 1992
B.A., Biology and Romance Languages, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1987

Fields of interest:
Community ecology, biodiversity dynamics, and ecosystem function
Dynamics of social-ecological systems
Resource management by local communities and indigenous peoples

Principal Investigators, Cooperating Researchers, and Consultants

Office: Edmondson Hall 357
Phone: (808) 956-6149
Fax: (808) 956-9812
E-mail: jbrock@hawaii.edu
Related web page: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wormlab/jbpage.html

Education:
Ph.D., Marine Zoology, University of Wales at Swansea, UK, 1968
B.S., Zoology, University of Wales at Swansea, UK, 1964

Fields of Interest:
Biomonitoring of Benthic Organisms Especially Polychaetes (marine worms).
Populations at Hawaiian Outfall Diffusers
Environmental Stress on Marine Benthos
Coral Reef Invertebrates

Office: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics 213
Phone: (808) 956-2859
Fax: (808) 956-2858
E-mail: brockr@hawaii.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1983
M.S., Zoology, University of Hawaii, 1972
B.S., Zoology, University of Hawaii, 1968

Fields of Interest:
Hawaiian Fishes
Fish Community Structure
Fish Population Dynamics
Environmental Stress on Fish
Ocean Outfall Fish Communities
Fisheries and Coral Reef Resource Management

Office: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics 338
Phone: (808) 956-2567
Fax: (808) 956-2877
E-mail: chu@hawaii.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Meteorology and Climatology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1981
M.S., Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1974
B.S., Earth Sciences, College of Chinese Culture, 1970

Fields of Interest:
Climate Variability/Change and Rainfall Variations in Hawaii and Pacific Islands
Drought and Drought Risks
Rainfall Frequency
Seasonal Rainfall Prediction

Phone: (808) 254-0203
E-mail: w.j.cooke@worldnet.att.net

Education:
Ph.D., University of Hawaii
B.A., Stanford University

Fields of Interest:
Taxonomy, Distribution and Ecology of Tropical Hydroids and Zoanthids
Taxonomy, Distribution and Ecology of Indo-Pacific Pericarideans
Development and Competition in Fouling and Wood Boring Communities
Tropical Marine Invertebrate Communities under Stress

Office: Saunders Hall 417
Phone: (808) 956-7390
Fax: (808) 956-3512
E-mail: thomas@hawaii.edu
Related web page: http://webdata.soc.hawaii.edu/climate

Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of Hawaii, 1983.
M.A., Geography, University of Miami, 1977
B.S. (cum laude), Geography and Mathematics, University of Miami, Florida, 1974

Fields of Interest:
Climatology
Environmental Hydrology
Land-Atmosphere Interaction
Hydrological Impacts of Tropical Deforestation
Hydrology of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
Effects of Rural Roads on Watershed Processes
Impacts of Global Warming on High Elevation Ecosystems in Hawaii

Office: HIG 217
Phone: (808)956-4777
Fax: (808) 956-5044
E-mail: khagedor@hawaii.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Hydrogeology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2009
Diplom, Geology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 2006

Fields of Interest:
Application of stable and radiogenic isotopes to study water-rock interaction
Riverine carbon cycle
Hydrologic balances for alternate recharge rates
Groundwater flow modeling