| CTAHR Organic Working Group Contacts Coordinator
Dr. Ted Radovich
Sustainable Farming Systems Laboratory
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Science
The University of Hawaii
3190 Maile Way, St. John 102
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Email: theodore@hawaii.edu
Topic Leaders
Agroecology: Dr. Koon Hui
Wang
Agroforestry: Dr. Travis Idol
Business Management & Marketing: Dr. Linda
Cox
Disease Management: Dr. Scot Nelson
Insect management: Dr. Mark Wright
Livestock and Pasture Management: Matthew Stevenson
Soil Health and Fertility: Dr.
Jonathan Deenik
Vegetable Production: Dr. Hector Valenzuela
Weed Management: Dr. James Leary
Specialization/interest:
Alton Arakaki -- ArakakiA@ctahr.hawaii.edu
Organic Certification: Sustainable Production
Skip Bittenbender -- hcbitt@hawaii.edu
Coffee; `Awa; Cacao
Richard Bowen -- rbowen@hawaii.edu
Economics and Policy; HOFA Board Member
Steve Chiang -- schiang@hawaii.edu
Agribusiness Development
Linda Cox -- lcox@hawaii.edu
Business Management; Marketing
Jonathan Deenik -- jdeenik@hawaii.edu
Soil Fertility
Virginia Easton-Smith -- vsmith@hawaii.edu
Organic Coffee Production
Richard Ebesu -- rebesu@hawaii.edu
Fruit Crops; Integrated Pest Management
Maria E. Ortiz Escobar -- escobar@hawaii.edu
Soil Chemistry; Compost
Dale Evans -- evans@hawaii.edu
Publications; Information Carl I. Evensen -- evensen@hawaii.edu
Water Quality
Kent Fleming -- fleming@hawaii.edu
Production Economics, AgriTourism
Steven K. Fukuda -- sfukuda@hawaii.edu
Vegetable Crop Production Jayme Grzebik -- grzebikj@ctahr.hawaii.edu
Urban Horticulture, O'ahu Master Gardener Program
Mitiku Habte -- mitiku@hawaii.edu
Symbiosis; Nutrient Management
Nguyen Hue -- nvhue@hawaii.edu
Soil Chemistry; Compost
Eileen Herring -- eherring@hawaii.edu
Library and Information Systems
Alvin S. Huang -- ahuang@hawaii.edu
Produce Nutritional Quality; Postharvest Physiology Travis
Idol -- idol@hawaii.edu
Agroforestry
Ekhlass Jarjees -- ekhlass@hawaii.edu
Biocontrol of Insects
Kent Kobayashi -- kentko@hawaii.edu
Sustainability in ornamental crop production; photobiology; photomorphogenesis; LEDs
James Leary -- leary@hawaii.edu
Nitrogen Fixation; Weed Management
Russell Messing -- messing@hawaii.edu
Biological Control; Farm Certification
Lynn Nakamura-Tengan -- lynnnaka@hawaii.edu
Food Safety Extension Educator
Dr. Scot Nelson -- snelson@hawaii.edu
Plant Pathology; Disease Diagnosis
Wayne Nishijima -- waynen@hawaii.edu
Associate Dean of Extension
Jeri J. Ooka -- jeri@hawaii.edu
Plant Pathology Raju Pandey -- raju.pandey@gmail.com
Biocontrol of Insects
Dan Paquin -- paquin@hawaii.edu
Phytoremediation, Engineering Sharee
Pepper -- spepper@hawaii.edu
Grant Writing
Theodore Radovich -- theodore@hawaii.edu
Vegetable quality; Agroecology; Sustainable
Farming Systems, Hawaii WSARE PDP Coordinator
Brent Sipes -- sipes@hawaii.edu
Nematode Control
Jody Smith -- smithjos@hawaii.edu
Sustainable Agriculture Education
Jari Sugano -- suganoj@ctahr.hawaii.edu
Crop Production, Insect Management of Edible Crops
Krisnawati Suryanata -- krisnawa@hawaii.edu
Political economy and geography of agriculture
Janice Uchida -- juchida@hawaii.edu
Mycology; Plant Pathology
Hector Valenzuela -- hector@hawaii.edu
Integrated Crop Management
Koon-Hui Wang -- koonhui@hawaii.edu
Soil Ecology and Nematology; Cover crops for insect and nematode
management, soil solarization, and soil health management
Debbie Ward -- hofa@hawaiiorganicfarmers.org
Extension; NREM (retired); HOFA Organic Certification Associate
Mark G. Wright -- markwrig@hawaii.edu
Biocontrol; Integrated Pest Management
Adel Youkhana -- adel@hawaii.edu
Coffee, Agroforestry |