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Please Help the Food Drive |
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| March
11, 2008 |
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Source:
J.K. Grace |
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PEPS Ohana,
It's time again for the University of Hawaii Food Drive, to benefit the
Hawaii Food Bank! Please bring (or send)
a check made out to "Hawaii Food Bank" to Lydia in the department office, or bring in some food
(checks preferred though, if possible).
This is a GOOD cause! Everything goes to help the hungry right here in
Hawaii. If you've been reading the economic news, then you know that there are people who really do need
your help. It's a fact that most Americans are only one or two paychecks away from being homeless. So,
please help those around you who are hungry and in need. |
Five Most Wanted Foods:
Canned meats or tuna
canned meals like spaghetti, chili, and corned beef hash
canned soups
canned vegetables and fruit
canned beans
Also, GREAT T-Shirts (see attached) for only $12-14; and Aloha Diners Club Books
full of great savings for only $14. See the attachments, and see Lydia to place your orders.
PLEASE GIVE NOW! FINAL DEADLINE IS APRIL 22.
Thanks for your kokua.
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PEPS MS Thesis Defense March 7, 10:30, Gilmore 301 |
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| March
3, 2008 |
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Source:
J.K. Grace |
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Entomology MS Thesis Defense:
"Occurrence and Distribution of Pests of Public Health
Importance on the Island of Oahu"
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Mark Leong |
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Mark K. H. Leong
Entomology Graduate Program
PEPS, CTAHR |
Friday, March 7
10:30 AM
Gilmore 301
Thesis Committee: Ken Grace (Advisor),
Lee
Goff, Julian Yates
All are welcome to attend! |
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| March
3, 2008 |
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Source:
Daniel Rubinoff |
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Dr. Lloyd Loope of USGS will be giving an informal talk on
Wednesday March 5th 1030-1145 in Gilmore Hall room 302. His title
will be:
"Stranger than Fiction: newly emergent invasive species threats to
Hawaii's biodiversity and efforts to address them" |
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PEPS Special Seminar 28 February 2008 |
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| Febrary
22, 2008 |
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J.K. Grace |
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PEPS SPECIAL SEMINAR:
"Entomopathogenic Nematodes: An Area of Potential Interest"
Miss Muthusamy Razia and Dr. S. Siva Ramakrishnan
Dept. of Biotechnology
Bharathidasan University
Tamil Nadu, India
Thursday, Feb 28
11:00 AM
St John 106
Everyone is welcome! Please contact
Brent Sipes if you would like
to meet with Dr. Ramakrishnan while he is here. |
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Welcome to our new Pope Greenhouse manager! |
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| February
22, 2008 |
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Source:
J.K. Grace |
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I'm pleased to welcome Stephen Yoshida to PEPS as our new
Pope Lab greenhouse manager, effective March 3, 2008. Stephen is replacing Stanley Oshita,
who retired in December but kindly agreed to fill in as an emergency hire since his retirement.
Mr. Yoshida comes to us from the UHM grounds crew, where he's
responsible for weed control and pesticide inventory (just as Stanley was before joining PEPS).
Before joining UH, Stephen also had experience in agriculture and greenhouse operations.
Please join me in welcoming Stephen, and be sure to introduce yourself
to him when you visit Pope Lab. |
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UH Insect Museum insect Sorting Event |
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| January
28, 2008 |
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Daniel Rubinoff |
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Announcing the Second Annual
University of Hawaii
Insect Museum
Insect Sorting Event
What is it? An insect sort becomes necessary as specimens
accumulate through field collections. Until a sort, these insects are not easy for experts
studying different groups to locate in the museum. During a sort, labeled insects are put
with the other insects to which they are closely related. Then they are placed in their proper
spot in the museum collection where experts can find them and identify them.
The UH Insect
Museum is a research museum in the Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences,
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
Who should come? Anyone interested in learning more about the
insects of Hawaii. If you can tell a moth from a beetle, you can make a contribution!
Why should I go? It's a great chance to learn a little bit about
a lot of different groups of Hawaiian insects in a casual atmosphere.
How much time will it take? You can stop by for a few minutes,
go to class and come back, or stay for the whole time we are sorting. We hope to finish after one day.
When is it? Wednesday February 13, 10am until 6pm.
Where is it? The sort will be held in the UH Insect Museum
Room 607A Gilmore Hall.
Questions? Contact Dan Rubinoff:
rubinoff@hawaii.edu
or Jesse Eiben: eiben@hawaii.edu |
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Tropical
Plant Pathology PhD defense Jan 31, 12:30 PM |
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| January
25, 2008 |
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Source:
J.K. Grace |
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Tonia Quintero |
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Tonia Quintero will be defending the Ph.D. in Tropical Plant Pathology
(TPP - PEPS) on Thursday, 31 January 2008. Brent Sipes is her Advisor. |
Ms. Quintero will present a seminar entitled "Molecular and Morphological Assessment of Soil Nematode Communities in
Hawaii" on her research in Gilmore 301 at 12:30 PM on 31 January 2008.
The defense will follow immediately after the conclusion of the seminar. |
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Welcome Dr. Cho - Tues Jan 8, 10 AM in St John 302 |
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| January
8, 2008 |
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Source:
J.K. Grace |
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Coffee to Welcome Dr. Yangrae Cho
Tuesday, January 8
10 AM in St John 302
Join us in welcoming our newest faculty member to PEPS! |
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PEPS
2007 Pumpkin Carving Contest |
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| October
31, 2007 |
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Source:
PEPS News |
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PEPS Pumpkin Contest on Oct 31! |
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| October
26, 2007 |
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Source:
J.K. Grace |
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Don't forget to bring your pumpkin to our PEPS Pumpkin Carving
Contest on October 31. Bring your carved pumpkin to Gilmore 301 between 11:30 and 12:00 Noon. Judging
will be between 12:00 to 12:30 (take a slip of paper and write down the name of your favorite pumpkin).
At 12:30 the winners will be announced!
There will be pizza. But, feel free to bring a small dish to share too
if you like.
I have to be on the mainland, but Janice Uchida and Chris Kadooka
(and our wonderful office staff of course) will be helping and officiating at the contest.
Happy Halloween! |
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| October
10, 2007 |
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Source:
J.K. Grace |
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Thanks to Ron Mau and his crew and our friends at
Aloun
Farms, pumpkins are available
in Gilmore 310 for use in our upcoming PEPS Pumpkin Carving Contest on Halloween, Oct 31. |
All PEPS Faculty, Staff, and Students (including undergrads and student helpers), and our
friends in Administration can compete in the Pumpkin Contest - Just carve your pumpkin ahead
of time and bring it to Gilmore 301 at 11:30. Judging will end at 12:30.
All are welcome to come and pick your favorite! Bring a little dish to share too and enjoy
some social time on Halloween. |
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New pest/disease image gallery (miscellaneous crops/diseases) |
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| September
7, 2007 |
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Scot C. Nelson |
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Here we have started a little image gallery for miscellaneous
plants and their problems. This gallery supplements our existing galleries for banana, 'awa,
palms, coffee, noni, 'awa and mango.
The "Miscellaeous" gallery is under construction, but
now it has about 200 photos for 50 plants/crops and 85 different pest problems:
Miscellaneous Pest & Disease Image Gallery
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/nelsons/Misc/
You are welcome to submit photos. This site barely "scratches
the surface" of what is out there in terms of pest problems, but I thought it might be useful
for some people anyway, such as Master Gardeners. Although insect problems are not my area of
expertise, I put some common ones up on the site just for fun. |
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CTAHR
Welcome Back Ice Cream Bash |
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| August
31, 2007 |
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Source:
Charles Kinoshita |
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CTAHR students, faculty, staff, and friends!
Please join your friends in kicking-off the new academic year
at CTAHR's 18th Annual Welcome Back Ice Cream Bash, on Monday, September 10, 2007, 12:30-1:30 p.m.,
in Sherman Courtyard.
Meet new and old friends, and cheer on your department's representative
in the costume and ice-cream eating contests!
Indulge in FREE and DECADENT ice cream sundaes!
During this year's Ice Cream Bash, while we're feasting on decadent
treats, we should not forget those who are less fortunate. We will be supporting Hawaii Meals on
Wheels at this year's Ice Cream Bash. Cash and check donations (payable to Hawaii Meals on Wheels)
will be welcome.
See you at the Ice Cream Bash!!! |
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We are happy to welcome new PEPS Assistant Professor
(Arthropod Vectors of Plant Pathogens) ALBERTO BRESSAN. Dr. Bressan can be reached at
bressan@hawaii.edu, or at 956-6741 (Gilmore 513). A native of Italy, Alberto just moved
to Hawaii from the south of France with his wife and their brand new baby daughter. Although he started with us earlier this summer, a big welcome also to our invasive plants researcher,
JAMES LEARY <leary@hawaii.edu>, 956-6179, Gilmore 403. Dr. Leary is also teaching PEPS/TPSS 481, Weed Science, this semester with Dr. Joe DeFrank (TPSS). James is a well known face in the college, and just received his PhD from MBBE, where he worked with Dr. Dulal Borthakur (as well as with Dr. Joe DeFrank in
TPSS). We are also pleased to have FRED BROOKS <brooksf@hawaii.edu> with us this semester as instructor for PEPS 405, Plant Pathogens and Diseases. Dr. Brooks has a wealth of experience in tropical plant pathology in American Samoa, and just moved to Hawaii this summer. He can be found in St John 317, 956-5305. ETHEL VILLALOBOS <emv@hawaii.edu> isn't a new face, since she has been working with
Dr. Mark Wright for several years now. However, Dr. Villalobos has taken on more responsibilities this semester as instructor for PEPS 363 and 363L, General Entomology. Ethel has taught the lab portion of the course for the past couple years, but is taking on the lectures this semester too due to the summer retirement of Dr. Stephen Saul. STEFAN KRODER <kroder@hawaii.edu> is a new arrival and research entomologist from Europe, and is working in Gilmore Hall on
Dr. Russell Messing's biological control projects. TARA GARIEPY <tara_gariepy@yahoo.ca> has also just arrived from Canada, and is working with Dr. Messing on Kauai. Actually, Stefan and Tara are working on his research projects but not side by side with him, since Russell is on sabbatical this year. KOON-HUI WANG <koonhui@hawaii.edu> has returned to us from Florida as a research nematologist working with
Dr. Cerruti
Hooks. Dr. Wang earned her PhD in Tropical Plant Pathology a few years ago under
Dr. Brent Sipes. Welcome back. |
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Entomology
students win conservation awards |
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LUC LEBLANC and WILL HAINES, both Entomology PhD students
advised by PEPS Associate Professor Dan
Rubinoff, received awards for their presentations at the 15th Annual Hawai‘i Conservation Conference,
July 25-27, 2007. at the Hawaii Convention Center. Luc received the award for Best Student Oral
Presentation for his research on the impact of fruit fly lures on non-target insects. Luc has found
that traps placed in orchards do not attract native insects, and that they are not inclined to visit
even improperly placed traps in native forests unless large number of dead flies are present. Will was
named Runner-up for his paper on the true conservation status of Hawaiian leafroller moths in the genus
Omiodes. By focused surveys, Will found that many of the species thought to be extinct due to habitat
destruction and biological control impacts were actually alive and well, or had been misidentified in
the first place Details can be found at
http://www.hawaiiconservation.org/call-for-papers.asp. |
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TPP
grad students host PEPS BBQ and volleyball this
Friday, Aug 24, at 4:00 PM |
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The Plant Pathology Graduate Student Organization (PPGSO)
is hosting their monthly barbecue and vollyball games this coming Friday, Aug 24 around 4:00 PM
on the lawn adjacent to Gilmore. Everyone in the department, and all friends of the department,
are invited to come for good food, fun, and fellowship. If you can bring a little food to share,
or a donation to help with party needs, it is appreciated. Let's all show up and have some fun! |
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Welcome to CTAHR
eXchange!! |
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| August
21, 2007 |
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Source:
Douglas Vincent |
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In an effort to further communication among us in
CTAHR, we are pleased to announce the release of "CTAHR eXchange." CTAHR eXchange is
our opportunity to communicate ideas, discuss issues, raise concerns and seek solutions.
The web site is home to CTAHR internal blogs and forums. CTAHR eXchange can be found at
www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/CS.
Currently on CTAHR eXchange is my "Sustainable Agriculture"
blog. We will also be putting up future issues of the CTAHR Research as a separate blog.
I've also started two forums - one on Invasive Plant Species and one on CTAHR Research Funding.
Feel free to read and make comments.
CTAHR eXchange can be read by all. But to comment on the
blogposts or to respond to the forum posts, you must log in. If you are a CTAHR employee,
an account hs been created for you but you must log in. Once inside you may create your
own profile.
Our hope is to use this as a means for furthering
communication among us all.
If you are interested in hosting a forum or discussion group,
please contact Doug Vincent at vincent@hawaii.edu
with your ideas. I will be moderating
CTAHR eXchange and it will be my responsibility to bring issues to the attention of the
CTAHR administration.
CTAHR eXchange is powered by the Community Server software
and has benefited from the technical assistance of Elsie Kawahara and Kathy Lu in setting
up the program.
Thanks and let's have some good conversations. |
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CTAHR's Welcome-Back Lunch for Faculty and Staff |
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| July
26, 2007 |
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Source:
Charly Kinoshita |
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Aloha CTAHR Faculty and Staff:
A faculty and staff lunch will be held on August 16, 2007,
to kick-off the academic year and to give everyone the opportunity to meet our new faculty
members who’ll be participating in a faculty orientation on the morning of August 16:
CTAHR Welcome-Back Lunch
August 16, 2007, Thursday, 12:00 noon
Gilmore 212
We hope that all of you will join us at the Welcome-Back
Lunch. It’ll be an excellent opportunity to meet friends in the college, boost our energy
level for the upcoming academic year, and to get a free lunch!
Please let Susan Nakamura of the Academic and Student
Affairs Office (e-mail: AcadAff@ctahr.hawaii.edu,
phone: 956-6997) know that you'll be attending the lunch by Tuesday, August 7, 2007.
We hope to see all of you at the Welcome-Back Lunch on August 16, 2007! |
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New CTAHR Extension website |
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Thanks to Kathy Lu, after many months of effort, the new CTAHR Extension website is up. The site is: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ext |
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Entomology MS Defense Friday May 11 |
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Entomology MS Defense:
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Mandy Anhalt |
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"Transmission biology of Banana bunchy top virus to banana
by Pentalonia nigronervosa (Hemiptera: Aphididae)"
Ms. Mandy Dara Anhalt
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Friday May 11th, 2007
3:00 PM
Gilmore 306 |
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Welcome Dr James Leary to PEPS! |
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Please join me in welcoming
Dr. James Leary to PEPS as Assistant
Researcher responsible for invasive plants/weeds!
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Dr. Leary received his BS in Horticulture from Michigan State
University, MS in Horticulture from UH Manoa (with Joe DeFrank), and just completed his PhD in
MBBE (with Dulal Borthakur). James' faculty position is funded by a TSTAR Capacity Building
grant, in collaboration with NREM. |
Dr. Leary can be contacted at:
James John Kalani Leary <leary@hawaii.edu>
Office: Gilmore 403
Lab: Gilmore 401
Tel: 956-6179 |
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Two Entomology Proposal Seminars on May 8 |
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Double Feature!
Proposal seminars in Entomology:
Tuesday, May 8th, Gilmore 301
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Will Haines |
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2:00pm:
Will Haines, PhD. Proposal in Entomology:
The ecology and evolution of Hawaiian Lepidoptera, with a focus on moths in the genus
Omiodes (Lepidoptera: Crambidae).
Committee: Dr. Daniel Rubinoff (Chair), Dr. Ken Kaneshiro,
Dr. Mark
Wright, Dr. Andy Taylor, Dr. Jon Price (USGS) |
3:30pm:
Cynthia King, M.S. Thesis Proposal in Entomology:
Assessing impacts of introduced parasitoids on non-target endemic Hawaiian leafroller moths (Crambidae: Omiodes)
Committee: Dr. Daniel Rubinoff (Chair),
Dr. Cerruti
Hooks, Dr. Mark Wright |
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