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Alan Arakawa
Mayor
Maui County
State of Hawaii
Mayor Alan M. Arakawa was born in Wailuku, Maui in 1951. A graduate
of Maui High School and a business major at the University of
Hawai’i at Manoa, Arakawa began his career in public service
in 1984 as a wastewater plant worker with the County of Maui.
He rose to the post of supervisor in the wastewater division
of the Department of Public Works and he was both a UPW Chief
Steward and a HEGA Union Representative.
Elected to the Maui County Council in 1994, 1996 and 2000,
Arakawa served as Chair of the Planning, Parks and Land Use
committees. While on the Council, he worked to create non-partisan
county elections and open up the government process, the County
Fair Regional Site Selection Committee, advocated for early
childhood development programs such as Good Beginnings, concentrating
heavily on human service programs, worked to provide funding
for increased Akaku public access television coverage of County
Council and Boards and Commissions sessions, and changed the
Community Plan structure.
Elected mayor of Maui County in November 2002, Mayor Arakawa
counts among his many professional boards and memberships,
the Maui Board of Realtors, Chamber of Commerce, Maui Economic
Opportunity, Maui Visitors Bureau, Malama Learning Center,
Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Services, the
Maui Vegetable Growers Association and the Maui Farm Bureau.
A volunteer at many community events – including the
Mercedes Golf Championship at Kapalua – Mayor Arakawa
counts among his community activities and pastimes long-time
associations with the Maui Okinawa Kenjin Kai (past president);
Maui Mental Health Association, Maui Contract Bridge League,
U.S. Chess Federation, Kiwanis Club of Kahului, and Maui Youth
& Family Service.
Mayor Arakawa is married to Ann Arakawa – an Assistant
Professor CC of Mathematics at Maui Community College –
and they are the parents of two grown daughters, Jan and Jodi.
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 Douglas
Vincent
Special Program Director for Contracts and Grants
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii
Douglas L. Vincent, Ph.D., P.A.S. is the Special Director
for Grants and Contracts for the College of Tropical Agriculture
and Human Resources (CTAHR). He received his Ph.D. in Animal
Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
During his tenure at the University of Illinois, he received
an NIH Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology.
After graduation in 1983, Dr. Vincent was awarded an NIH Postdoctoral
Training Fellowship in Endocrinology at West Virginia University.
In 1985, Dr. Vincent joined the faculty at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa as an Assistant Animal Scientist in the Department
of Animal Sciences. In 1992, Dr. Vincent was promoted and tenured
as an Associate Animal Scientist; was named Department Chair
of the Departmen of Animal Sciences in 1994; was promoted to
Animal Scientist (Full Professor) in 1998. After nearly 8 years
as Department Chair; first with the Department of Animal Sciences;
then Interim Chair of the Department of Food Science and Human
Nutrition, and later with the merged Department of Human Nutrition,
Food and Animal Sciences, Dr. Vincent was named Special Director
for Grants and Contracts in CTAHR on June 1, 2002. Dr. Vincent's
responsibilities lie in the management of the portfolio of Federal
and State research funds to CTAHR. This includes USDA Agricultural
Research Services (ARS) Special Cooperative Agreements; the
several USDA Cooperative State Research, Extension and Education
Service (CSREES) Special Research Grants and some State of Hawaii
Department of Agriculture funds. The largest program managed
by Dr. Vincent is the T-STAR Pacific Program. T-STAR is an acronym
for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research and is a
joint program of the Pacific Basin and Caribbean Basin Administrative
Groups. The T-STAR program receives approximately $4.1 million
dollars annually in funding to support agricultural research
in the tropics and subtropics and more recently, research mitigating
the impact on agriculture of invasive species. Dr. Vincent also
manages the USDA CSREES Federal Floriculture Research Grant
which provides over $300,000 in federal funding for floriculture
research to Hawaii.
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 Debbie
Hamrick
Editor
FloraCulture International
Debbie Hamrick has been reporting on the floriculture industry
for 17 years. She moved up through the ranks at GrowerTalks
and later became the founding publisher for FloraCulture International.
Her network of contacts throughout the United States and world
is extensive. She’s known among growers and industry VIPs
on both sides of the Atlantic and has visited 28 countries on
four continents to report on the industry. Debbie is one of
the few people in world floriculture who has a working knowledge
of all facets of floricultural production and marketing, from
cut flowers to poinsettias to bedding plants and foliage plants.
She sees not only the science of the specialized agriculture
that is floriculture, but she understands and has insights into
the business and industry structure as well. Debbie is active
in her national and local industry associations, serving as
the immediate past president of the North Carolina Flower Growers
Association. Additionally, she serves as vice president of Florastar,
the North American pot plant trialing organization and she is
active with the American Nursery & Landscape Association,
Ohio Florists Association and the Society of American Florists.
She received the 2003 Alumnus of the Year award from the North
Carolina State University Department of Horticultural Science.
She is a 1998 graduate of the Illinois Agricultural Leadership
Program, a prestigious 2-year program that recognizes outstanding
young people in agriculture. In addition to being a magazine
editor, Debbie also manages Ball Publishing conferences and
edited Volume II of the 17th edition of the Ball
Redbook. Debbie received her bachelor’s degree in Horticulture
with a concentration in agricultural economics from North Carolina
State University, Raleigh.
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 Robert
Paull
Professor and Chairman
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Robert Paull has been a faculty member at University of
Hawaii for 22 years. He graduated from the University of Sydney,
Sydney, Australia and received his PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley, California. He conducts research on the
impact of preharvest environmental and postharvest handling
factors on tropical horticultural commodity quality and the
application of biotechnology and genetically altered crops to
improve commodity quality. Besides membership in Professional
Societies, he serves on as a Campus Senator.
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 Arnold
Hara
Professor and Extension Specialist in
Entomology
Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Arnold Hara received his B.S. and M.S. from the UH-Manoa,
and completed his Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of
California-Davis. Hara has been stationed in Hilo, Hawaii with
the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR)
since 1982 with responsibilities in pest management of floricultural
crops. Dr. Hara focuses on preharvest and postharvest control
treatments in a systems approach to quarantine security to meet
stringent interstate and foreign quarantine regulations. Hara
was the recipient of 2000 Entomological Society of America Distinguished
Achievement Award in Regulatory Entomology. Some of his research
accomplishments include the development of heat treatments to
control quarantine pests and extend the shelf-life of exported
flowers. At the 2002 ESA meeting in Florida, Hara co-organized
a Section E symposium on risk analyses and applied management
of invasive species.
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GUEST SPEAKERS
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 Anne
Alvarez
Professor
Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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 Tessie
Amore
Researcher
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Teresita Amore has worked for almost 20 years with the dendrobium
and anthurium breeding programs at the University of Hawaii.
She started as a graduate research assistant in 1985 while pursuing
her M.S. in Horticulture. After she received her Ph.D. in Horticulture
from the Univ. of Hawaii in 1991, specializing in dendrobium
cytogenetics and breeding, she worked subsequently as a Research
Associate in the flower breeding program with Drs. Kamemoto
and Kuehnle. Since 1998 Tessie has been employed as an Assistant
Researcher in the Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Department
breeder for the dendrobium program and oversees the tissue culture
of new anthurium hybrids and in vitro germplasm collection.
She has numerous research and extension publications, including
co-authorship on the book "Breeding Dendrobium Orchids
in Hawaii".
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 Chantill
Caines
BS degree candidate
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ms. Caines is from Hyattville, Wyoming, and will earn her BS
degree in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences with an emphasis
on Plant Production and Management this semester. As a two-semester
directed study project she evaluated several imported ornamental
ginger cultivars for possible introduction to Hawaii growers.
She will return to Wyoming where she has accepted a position
as a field agent with the United States Forestry Service.
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 Richard
Criley
Professor
Department of
Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Richard Criley has been with the University of Hawaii since
1968, conducting research into the manipulation of flowering
of tropical ornamentals. He received his PhD from UCLA and his
M.S. and B.S. degrees in horticulture from Penn State. He has
received grants for his research from the American Floral Endowment,
the Gloeckner Foundation, Hawaii's GACC, the Plumeria Society
of America, and, most recently, from Federal Floriculture awards
to Hawaii. A Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural
Science, he was presented the Alex Laurie Award for Floricultural
Research by the Society of American Florists in 2002. Dr. Criley
is Chair of the Ornamentals Section of the International Society
for Horticultural Science and a member of the ISHS Executive
Committee.
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 Blanche
Dansereau
Professor of Ornamental Horticulture-Floriculture
Plant Science Department
Horticulture Research Center
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Dr. Blanche Dansereau received a BS (1969), an MS (1972) and
a Ph.D. (1974) from the University of Georgia in Ornamental
Horticulture. She has taught undergraduate courses (French only)
in plant propagation, landscape materials, and greenhouse crop
production for the past 27 years at Laval University. ASHS member
since 1969, she is an internationally respected scholar who’s
academic and scientific career reflects her broad range of interests
in the multifaceted features of ornamental horticulture.. Her
research has centered on cultural practices and physiology of
greenhouse-grown plants (poinsettias, chrysanthemums and annual
plants), organic or agrochemical growing systems using industrial
residues from pulp and paper companies to reduce environmental
damage, use of hydroretention agents and modified fertilization
regimes for large-volume flowering baskets, the anatomy and
physiology of roses in relation to supplementary lighting, carbon
dioxide enrichment, fertilization and substrates. Her research
group was one of the first to show the relationship of pre-harvest
techniques (supplementary light and fertilization levels) on
post-harvest physiology of greenhouse grown roses. She has been
a pioneer in determining the effects of plants in an urban environment
to provide ecological stability, improve aesthetic and architectural
surroundings, and, most importantly, contribute to air quality
by her new horticulture frontier research in European Greenroofing
systems.
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 Joe
DeFrank
Specialist
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Joe DeFrank is a weed science researcher located on the
UH main campus in Manoa Valley. He joined the Department of
Horticulture in October 1983 with a research focus on developing
weed control systems for vegetable and ornamental crops. He
has worked on crops such as dry and wetland taro, protea, leafy
vegetables, anthuriums, orchids and heart of palm. Recently
he has focused on weed control in potted ornamentals for export;
weed control in native Hawaiian plants grown for seed and selective
weed control in ornamental turf grasses such as bermuda, zoyisa
and seashore paspalum. Other related research areas include
development of no till farming systems for pineapple and ground
cover establishment in orchards, forest crops and ornamental
landscapes. When he is not controlling weeds he enjoys a friendly
game of Hawaiian Rules Bocce that he and other staff members
developed at UH. When he needs break from campus and the big
city he spends time on his farm on the Big Island killing weeds,
brain cells and 12 packs of Bud Lite.
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 Clark
Hashimoto
Extension Agent
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College
of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University
of Hawaii at Manoa
A graduate of California State Polytechnic University at San
Luis Obispo, Clark has been with the Cooperative Extension Service
as the county agent for the floriculture and fruit crops industries
for over 28 years. He served as the Interim County Administrator
for Maui County from 1996 through 2001 but has since resumed
his duties with the cut flower and fruit industries on Maui.
He is on the organizing committee for this conference and works
closely with the Maui County Farm Bureau, one of the conference
sponsors.
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 Jim
Hollyer
Program Manager
Agricultural Development in the American Pacific Program
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jim brings together teams of people to accomplish tasks. For
example, over 200 people have combined their knowledge to construct
best selling CTAHR books such as Taro: Mauka to Makai, This
Hawaii Product Went to Market, and the recent, Growing Plants
for Hawaiian Lei: 85 Plants for Gardens, Conservation, and Business.
Jim is an early adoptor of technology and has worked with partners
to create some useful business tools here in Hawaii.
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 Heidi
Kuehnle
Horticulturist
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Adelheid Kuehnle received her Ph.D. in Plant Breeding from
Cornell University in 1988. Since her hire at the University
of Hawaii that same year, Heidi has supported the Hawaii orchid and anthurium industries through cultivar development
and by addressing basic aspects of floricultural genetics and
breeding. Her work has produced over 100 journal articles, technical/extension
reports and book chapters. Heidi's current research emphasis
is on anthurium hybridization and germplasm as well as molecular
genetics and breeding of dendrobium, oncidium and anthurium
for disease resistance and novel flower color. She advises numerous
graduate students and undergraduate Honors students and is responsible
for teaching undergraduate courses in Flower Production and
Plant Cell Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering in the Tropical
Plant and Soil Sciences Department.
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 Ken
Leonhardt
Specialist
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Ken Leonhardt has been a faculty member at the University
of Hawaii for 28 years. He graduated from California Polytechnic
University, Pomona, and received his MS and PhD degrees from
the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He teaches Tropical Crop
Science, is the academic advisor for the department’s
30 undergraduate students and oversees the senior internship
program. His research focuses on development of new varieties
of floriculture crops of importance to the commercial industries
in Hawaii. He currently has grants and graduate students working
on protea, orchids, dracaena and other foliages. His protea
cultivar development program has released over 50 new cultivars
to the Hawaii protea industry over the last 10 years. He chairs
the committee that has organized this Hawaii Floriculture Conference.
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 Ed
Mersino
Extension Agent
Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Mr. Mersino is a County Agriculture Extension Agent with the
University of Hawaii. He provides leadership in planning, organizing,
conducting and evaluating educational programs for the commercial
floriculture industries on Oahu. His program includes working
with individual farmers, nurserymen, industry organizations,
committees, and maintaining liaisons with related organizations.
Ed has a BS degree in Math from Clarion University and an MS
degree in Horticulture from the University of Hawaii. He has
also earned post-graduate credits in Soil Science, Agricultural
Economics, Plant Biochemistry, Crop Physiology at California
State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California, and
at the University of Hawaii. Ed has been on the faculty of the
University of Hawaii since 1980.
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 Norman
Nagata
Extension Agent
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College
of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University
of Hawaii at Manoa
Mr. Nagata has been working with the landscape, turfgrass and
ornamental plant industries in Maui County for the past two
years. In the five years prior to his current appointment, he
was responsible for the urban horticulture and Master Gardener
programs, and the cut flower and fruit industries on Maui. From
1990 to 1997, he was a Junior Researcher at the University of
Hawaii, Maui Agricultural Research Station focusing on protea
diseases and controls. He was also a Plant Pathologist with
the Hawaii Department of Agriculture on Oahu for six years working
on biological control of weeds. Mr. Nagata has a Masters degree
in plant pathology from the University of Hawaii.
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Brent Sipes
Professor
Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii
Dr. Brent Sipes has worked at the College of Tropical Agriculture
and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii since receiving
the Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1991. His
research and extension activities focus on plant-parasitic nematode
control in tropical crops. Dr. Sipes investigates chemical,
cultural, and biological nematode control methods in a diversity
of crops which include pineapple, taro, coffee, anthurium, orchids,
and protea. His research laboratory of three full time technicians
and five graduate students work on root-knot, reniform and burrowing
nematodes infecting these crops. Dr. Sipes has over 60 scientific
publications, including five book chapters and 45 peer-reviewed
articles. He chairs the Tropical Plant Pathology graduate program
and teaches three courses at the University of Hawaii.
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 Glenn
Teves
Extension Agent
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Glenn Teves has a B.S. in Horticulture from UH Manoa, and has
been an extension agent on the island of Molokai for 22 years.
First hired to provide education and technical assistance to
native Hawaiian farm families on Hawaiian Home Lands, he presently
oversees ornamentals, livestock and forage, and community resource
and economic development programs, including aquaculture and
ag cooperative development. He has a strong interest in lei
flowers, passed down from his mom who sews leis almost everyday,
and was one of the contributors to the recently released 'Growing
Plants for Hawaiian Lei'. Mr. Teves has provided technical assistance
in the commercial production of pikake, tuberose, carnation,
plumeria, and many of the lei flowers. He manages the CTAHR
Molokai Extension Office, and serves on many Molokai community
advisories. He's also a CTAHR member of the UH Manoa Faculty
Senate.
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 Janice
Uchida
Plant Pathologist
Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
University of Hawaii
Janice Y. Uchida received a Ph.D. from the University in Hawaii
in Plant Pathology. Her major research efforts are on the etiology
and control of fungal diseases of tropical fruits, nuts, ornamentals
(orchids), foliage, and landscape plants. She is now actively
aiding farmers who are growing taro, Colocasia esculenta, and
promoting sustainable agricultural practices for islanders who
cannot use pesticides near fragile aquatic ecosystems. She places
high emphasis on knowledge transfer through Extension, regularly
visits with growers and routinely publishes detailed colored
photographs of disease symptoms and causal organisms with disease
management strategies. She teaches Introductory Environmental
Sciences from an agricultural perspective and Introductory Plant
Pathology and has developed the undergraduate program for a
new integrated department. Dr. Uchida is active in the University
Senate, was elected to the Senate Executive Committee for 2003-2005,
and serves as the secretary for the UH Senate (2003-5). She
currently serves as Senior Editor for the Journal Plant Disease.
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