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Noa  Lincoln

Name :

Noa Lincoln

Title :

Associate Professor

Unit :

Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences

Address :

3190 Maile Way, St. John 102
                  Honolulu, HI 96822

Room :

Sherman Lab 216

Phone :

(808) 969-8221

Fax :

(808) 956-3894

E-mail :

nlincoln@hawaii.edu

Website :

https://sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/ics-lab/home

Specialties :

Indigenous Agriculture, Agroecology, Soil Science, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Archaeology, Human Ecology, Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge

Professional Prep/Appointments :


PostDoc Canterbury University; Indigenous Resource Management
PostDoc Mellon Foundation; Indigenous Communication
PhD Stanford University; Interdisciplinary Resource Management
Certificate Stanford University; Indigenous Resource Management
BS Yale University; Environmental Engineering

Projects :


Title of Grant: Defining Cultural Ecological Units

Title of Grant: Science-Driven Methods for Scaling Afforestation of Dry Grass-Dominated Landscapes

Title of Grant: AgriWatch: Innovating Agriculture Disaster Response with AI-Empowered Real-Time Monitoring

Title of Grant: Lauhala: Weaving Knowledges and Practices with a Climate Resilient and Culturally Significant Plant on Hawai‘i Island

Title of Grant: HI’A Wayfinding ITEK Curriculum to FAHN Pathways

Title of Grant: GFH Growing Hawaii’s Agricultural Workforce

Title of Grant: Type 1: Climate Resilient Food Innovation Network (CLiRFIN) for Hawai‘i and the USAPI Region

Title of Grant: Building Pilina: Community Engagement for Kūkaniloko

Title of Grant: Improving Breadfruit Cultivar Access for Industry Expansion and Quality

Title of Grant: Leveraging Existing Research Plantings of Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) to Understand Drivers of Fruit Quality and its Impacts on Post-Harvest Processes and Profits

Title of Grant: Soil Pedogenesis, Agroecology, and their Interactions



Selected Courses Taught:


TPSS 200/SUST 211 Agriculture, Environment, and Society
TPSS 431 Indigenous Food Systems
TPSS 670 Sustainable Food Systems

Publications :


 

Books

 

Lincoln, N.K. (2020) Ko: An Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Sugarcane Varieties. University of Hawai‘i Press; Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA

 

Edited Volumes

 

Shailesh, S., Settee, P., and Lincoln, N. K. (in press) Indigenous Insights, Initiatives, and Innovations for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems. Canadian Scholar Press. [33%, 33%] (see Book Contract_Indigenous Food Systems)

Chang, K., Winter, K. B., & Lincoln, N. K. (2022). Biocultural Restoration in Hawai‘i. MDPI; Basel, Switzerland. [33%, 33%]

 

Book Chapters

 

Fialkowski, M.K., Young, C., Antonio, M., Lincoln, N.K., Riley, L. (in press) Traditional Food Systems, Nutrition and Health of Kānaka ʻŌiwi In Ghost, D., Perera, C., Perera, A.D., and Bogueva, D. [Eds]. Nutritional and Health Aspects of Traditional and Ethnic Foods: Oceania. Elsevier; Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Lincoln, N.K. (in press). “He Kauwā Wale ke Kanaka: Worldview and agriculture in Hawai’i.” In Shulka, S., Sette, P., and Lincoln, N [Eds]. Indigenous Insights, Initiatives, and Innovations for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems. Canadian Scholar Press; Toronto, Canada.

Ogura, S., Hove, E.M., Lepcha, K., Lincoln, N.K., and Fowell, S.J. (in press) “Meaning and Practice of Ancient Grains Cultivation in Three Diverse Localities.” In Shulka, S., Sette, P., and Lincoln, N [Eds]. Indigenous Insights, Initiatives, and Innovations for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems. Canadian Scholar Press; Toronto, Canada.

Lincoln, N. K. (2023). Pakukui: The productive fallow of ancient Hawaii. In Cairns, M. [Ed] Farmer Innovations and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific (pp. 431-453). CABI Press; Oxfordshire, UK.

Lincoln, N. K., Vaughan, M. B., & Kurashima, N. (2022) Hawai‘i. In Beamer, K., Vitousek, P.M. and Tau, T [Eds] Islands and Cultures, pp. 35-75. Yale University Press; New Haven, CT, USA.

Lincoln, N.K. (2020). State of Our Starches. In Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, N., Howes, C., Osorio, J. K. K. O., & Yamashiro, A. [Eds] The Value of Hawai’i 3: Hulihia, the Turning. University of Hawai’i Press; Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA.

Lincoln, N. K., Kagawa-Viviani, A., Marshall, K., and Vitousek, P.  (2017) Observations of Sugarcane in Traditional Hawaiian Cropping Systems. In Rachel Murphy [Ed] Sugarcane: Production Systems, Uses, and Economic Impact. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, USA

Refereed Journal Publications

Cochrane, E.E., Quintus, S., Prebble, M., Tautunu, T.A.A.M., Autufuga, D., .... Lincoln, N. (2024). Collective action problems led to the cultural transformation of Sāmoa 800 years ago. PLOS ONE 19(6): e0304850.

Kirch, P. V., Horrocks, M., Murakami, G., Lincoln, N. K., Autufuga, D., & Swift, J. (2024). Pre-Contact Vegetation and Persistence of Polynesian Cultigens in Hālawa Valley, Moloka'i. Pacific Science, 78(1), 1-17.

Lincoln, N., Lee, T.M., Quintus, S. Haensel, T., & Chen, Q. (2024). Agroforestry Distribution and Contributions in Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture. Human Ecology.

Orura, S., Forwell, S.J., Backman, C., Lincoln, N.K., Bulkan, J., Odakawa, K., Sakawa, T., & Shiiba, M. (2024). Meaning of small grains cultivation as a traditional occupation in Japan. Journal of Occupational Science, DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2284164

Autufuga, D., Quintus, S., Yoo, K., Day, S., Huebert, J., Deenik, J., & Lincoln, N. K. (2023). Distribution of Soil Nutrients and Ancient Agriculture on Young Volcanic Soils of Ta ‘ū, American Samoa. Soil Systems, 7(2), 52.

de Pinho, R. C., Pequeno, P. A. C. L., Alfaia, S. S., Barbosa, R. I., & Lincoln, N. K. (2023). Soil fertility in indigenous swidden fields and fallows in northern Amazonia, Brazil. Soil Use and Management. doi 10.1111/sum.12886

Erland, L. A., Needham, A. M., Kehinde, A. Z., Adebowale, A. P., Lincoln, N. K., Ragone, D., & Murch, S. J. (2023). Impact of microclimate on Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg var Ma’afala fruit and nutritional quality. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 115, 104983.

Lee, T. M., & Lincoln, N. K. (2023). Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications. Ecology and Society, 28(4).

Lincoln, N.K., Santiago, R. P., Tatum, D., Del Valle-Echevarria, A. (2023) Evidence of Downregulation in Atmospheric Nitrogen-Fixation in Native Hawaiian Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) Cultivars. Plants, 12(3), 605.

Lincoln, N. K., Haensel, T. P., & Lee, T. M. (2023). Modeling Hawaiian Agroecology: Depicting traditional adaptation to the world's most diverse environment. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7.

Livingston, C. & Lincoln, N.K. 2023. Determining Allometry and Carbon Sequestration Potential of Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) as a Climate-Smart Staple in Hawai‘i. Sustainability 15, no. 22: 15682. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215682

Marahatta, S. & Lincoln, N.K. (2023). Nematode Communities in the Rhizosphere of ʻMa‘afalaʻ Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) on Hawai‘i Island. Pacific Agriculture and Natural Resources, 13(1), 1-9.

Soong, K. V., Lincoln, N. K., Lee, T. M., & Ladefoged, T. N. (2023). Assessing spatial models of Hawaiian agroecological extents. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 51, 104121.

Wiseman, B. J., Paull, R. E., Lincoln, N. K., & Wall, M. M. (2023). 1-methylcyclopropene and Harvest Maturity Impact ‘Ma’afala’Breadfruit Postharvest Storage. HortScience, 58(6), 666-670.

Berning, E. H., Andersen, C. V. H., Mertz, O., Dickinson, N., Opgenorth, M., Lincoln, N. K., ... & Rønsted, N. (2022). Resilience of breadfruit agro-ecosystems in Hawaiʻi during the COVID-19 pandemic. CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 3(1), 1-8.

Lincoln, N., Anderson, T., Kantar, M., You, Q., & Wang, J. (2022). Diversity and Value of Extant Hawaiian Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum [L.]) Cultivars. Economic Botany, 1-15.

Quintus, S., Mills, P., Konter, J., Day, S., Gilreath, D., Lincoln, N.K., Lundblad, S., Vonderhaar, D., and Yoo, K. (2022) Trace element and Pb isotope analyses highlight decentralized inter-island exchange in American Sāmoa (Polynesia). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14:103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01571-w

Sirabis, W. C., Kantar, M. B., Radovich, T., & Lincoln, N. K. (2022). Nitrogen Dynamics and Sweet Potato Production under Indigenous Soil Moisture Conservation Practices in the Leeward Kohala Field System, Hawai’i Island. Soil Systems, 6(1), 16.

Wiseman B.J., Lincoln N.K., Wall M.M., Paull R.C. 2022. Influence of Maturity and 1-MCP on Postharvest Ripening of Breadfruit [abstract]. HortScience 57(9S):S111. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI.57.9S.S1

Bendes, M. S., & Lincoln, N. K. (2021). Impacts of underground competition and establishment on growth and root ARCHITECTURE of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) and māmaki (Pipturus albidus). Rhizosphere, 100337.

Eng, S., Khun, T., Esquivel, M., Ooki, N., Bloese, J., Sand, S., & Lincoln, N. (2021). Farmers’ Perceived Needs of Extension’ Support During Covid-19 in Hawai'i. Journal of Extension, 59(2), 15.

Fardkhales, S. A., & Lincoln, N. (2021). Food hubs play an essential role in the COVID-19 response in Hawai ‘i. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 10(2), 1-18.

Lincoln, N., Zhang, Q., & Chen, Q. (2021). State of the State Tree: Historical and Modern Ecology of Kukui (Candlenut, Aleurites Moluccanus) in Hawai ‘i. Pacific Science, 74(4), 419-434.

Quintus, S., Autufuga, D., Day, S., Huebert, J., Lincoln, N. K., Motu, N., & Yoo, K. (2021). Tracking Emergent Spatial and Social Patterns across Terraced Landscapes in Polynesia. Journal of Field Archaeology, 1-16.

Hill, A. J., Lincoln, N. K., Rachmilevitch, S., & Shelef, O. (2020). Modified Hiltner Dew Balance to Re-Estimate Dewfall Accumulation as a Reliable Water Source in the Negev Desert. Water, 12(10), 2952.

Lincoln, N. K. (2020). Agroforestry form and ecological adaptation in ancient Hawai'i: Extent of the pākukui swidden system of Hāmākua, Hawai'i Island. Agricultural Systems, 181, 102808.

Mausio, K., Miura, T., & Lincoln, N. K. (2020). Cultivation potential projections of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) under climate change scenarios using an empirically validated suitability model calibrated in Hawai’i. Plos one, 15(5), e0228552.

Needham, A., Jha, R., & Lincoln, N. K. (2020). The Response of Breadfruit Nutrition to Local Climate and Soil: A Review. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 103451.

Quintus, S., Huebert, J., Day, S., Lincoln, N., Yoo, K., Lee, T., ... & Autufuga, D. (2020). Tempo and Trajectory of The Built Landscape on Ta ‘Ū Island, Manu‘a Group, American Sāmoa: Integrating Extensive Radiocarbon Dating With Joint Posterior Modeling. Radiocarbon, 1-21.

Winter, K., Lincoln, N., Berkes, F., Alegado, R., Kurashima, N., Frank, K., ... & McClatchey, W. (2020). Ecomimicry in Indigenous resource management: optimizing ecosystem services to achieve resource abundance, with examples from Hawaiʻi. Ecology and Society, 25(2).

Winter, K., Rii, Y., Reppun, F., Hintzen, K., Alegado, R., Bowen, B., ...Lincoln, N.,… & Falinski, K. (2020). Collaborative research to inform adaptive comanagement: a framework for the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Ecology and Society, 25(4).

Lincoln, N. K., Cho, A., Dow, G., & Radovich, T. (2019). Early Growth of Breadfruit in a Variety× Environment Trial. Agronomy Journal, 111(6), 3020-3027.

Lincoln, N.K., Radovich, T., Acosta, K., Isele, E., Cho, A. (2019). Towards standardization of foliar tissue sampling of breadfruit. Hort. Tech. 29(4):443-449

Needham, A., & Lincoln, N. (2019). Interactions between People and Breadfruit in Hawai’i: Consumption, Preparation, and Sourcing Patterns. Sustainability, 11(18), 4983.

Quintus, S., Huebert, J., Kirch, P. V., Lincoln, N.K., & Maxwell, J. (2019). Qualities and Contributions of Agroforestry Practices and Novel Forests in Pre-European Polynesia and the Polynesian Outliers. Human Ecology, 1-15.

Kagawa-Viviani, A., Levin, P., Johnson, E., Kantar, M., Ooka, J., Baker, J.D., and Lincoln, N.K. (2018) I ke ēwe ‘āina o ke kupuna: Hawaiian ancestral crops in perspective. Sustainability 10(12), 4607

Langston, B., and Lincoln, N.K. (2018). The role of breadfruit in biocultural restoration and sustainability in Hawai‘i. Sustainability 10(11), 3965

Lincoln, N.K., Rossen, J., Vitousek, P., Kahoonei, J., Shapiro, D., Kalawe, K., Pai, M., Marshall, K., and Meheula, K. (2018). Restoration of ‘āina malo‘o on Hawai‘i Island: Expanding Biocultural Relationships. Sustainbility 10(11), 3985

Lincoln, N.K., McCoy, M.D., and Ladefoged, T. (2018). Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in kukui (Aleurites moluccanus) endocarp along rainfall and elevation gradients: archaeological implications. PLoS One 13(10), e0204654

Kagawa-Viviani, A., Lincoln, N.K., Quintus, S., Lucas, M., & Giambelluca, T. (2018). Spatial patterns of seasonal crop production suggest coordination within and across dryland agricultural systems of Hawaiʻi Island. Ecology and Society23(3), 20

Ladefoged, T. N., Preston, A., Vitousek, P. M., Chadwick, O. A., Stein, J., Graves, M. W., & Lincoln, N.K. (2018). Soil nutrients and pre‐European contact agriculture in the leeward Kohala field system, Island of Hawai ‘i. Archaeology in Oceania53(1), 28-40.

Lincoln, N.K., D. Ragone, N. Zerega, L.B. Roberts-Nkrumah, M. Merlin, and A.M Jones. (2018). Grow us our daily bread: A review of breadfruit cultivation in traditional and contemporary systems. Horticultural Reviews, 46, 288-384.

Quintus, S., & Lincoln, N. K. (2018). Integrating Local and Regional in Pre-Contact Hawaiian Agriculture at Kahuku, Hawai‘i Island. Environmental Archaeology 2018, 1-16.

Winter, K.B., Lincoln, N.K., and Berkes, F. (2018). The socio-ecological keystone concept: A quantifyable metaphor for understanding the structure, function, and resilience of a biocultural system. Sustainability. 10(9), 3294.

Gould, R., and Lincoln, N. K. (2017) Expanding the suite of Cultural Ecosystem Services to include ingenuity, perspective, and life teaching. Ecosystem Services 25(2017), 117-127.

Lincoln, N. K., and Vitousek, P. M. (2017). Indigenous Polynesian Agriculture in Hawai‘i. Oxford Research Encyclopedias; Environmental Science March (2017). DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.376

Marshall, K., Koseff, C., Roberts, A., Lindsey, A., Kagawa-Viviani, A., Lincoln, N. K., and Vitousek, P. (2017). Restoring People and Productivity to Puanui: Challenges and opportunities in the restoration of an intensive rain-fed Hawaiian field system. Ecology and Society 22(2): 23-32

Lincoln, N, & Ardoin, N. (2016). Farmer Typologies: Who is Farming How and What. Food, Culture, and Environment 19(3): 563-585

Giovanni, Z., Irene, P., András, B., Jon, C., Roberta, A., & Lincoln, N. K. (2015). Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trap. Landscape Online 40, 1-19

Lincoln, N., & Ardoin, N. (2015) Cultivating Values: Environmental Values and Sense of Place as Predictors for Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Five Categories. Culture, Agriculture, and the Environment, 33(2), 389-401

Lincoln, N., & Vitousek, P. M. (2015) Effects of Sugarcane and Farming Practices on Nitrogen Distribution and Cycling in Pre-European Hawaiian Agriculture. International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 14(2), 214-231

 

Non-refereed Journal Publications

 

Chang, K., Winter, K.B., and Lincoln, N.K. (2019) Hawai‘i in focus: navigating pathways in global biocultural leadership. Sustainability 11(1), 283

Langston, B.J., and Lincoln, N.K. (2019) Benefits of Citizen Science in Agronomic Research: The breadfruit phenology project. Rural Connections (Spr/Sum), 30-32.

Lincoln, N.K. (2019). Learning from Indigenous Agriculture. Nature Sustainability 1(1), 167

 

Extension Publications

 

Meilleur, B., Lincoln, N. K., Dobbs, J., Tichenal, C. A., Jones, R. R., and Huang, A. S. (2024). Hawaiian Breadfruit: Ethnobotany, Human Ecology, Agronomy, Nutrition, Modernity. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources; Honolulu, HI.

Wiseman, B. R. Paull,  N. Lincoln & M. Wall. (2023). Ma’afala Breadfruit: When to Harvest? University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Fruit, Nut, and Beverage Crops, FN-66.

Lincoln, N., Trump, A., Mermel, Z., Sansone, D., Dickinson, N. (2022). ‘Ulu Agroforestry in Hawai‘i. Hawai'i 'Ulu Producers Cooperative, Kainaliu, HI.

Lincoln, N., Autufuga, D., Uchida, J., Redfern, T., Jones, A., & Ragone, D. (2021). Breadfruit and Breadfruit Diseases in Hawai‘i. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.

Wiseman, B., Chen, N.J., Lincoln, N., and Paull, R. (2021) 'Ulu — Breadfruit — Postharvest Handling and Quality Maintenance Guidelines. College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources.

Lincoln, N. (2020) Nutrient Management for Breadfruit Production. ICS Lab; Hilo, HI.

Lincoln, N., Lucero, A., Ednie, E., Isele, E., and Shapiro, D. (2019). 'Ulu Propagation Techniques for Backyard and Commercial Growers. Hawai'i 'Ulu Producers Cooperative.

Lincoln, N., Lucero, A., Carter, C., and Shapiro, D., (2019). Pruning Breadfruit. Hawai'i 'Ulu Producers Cooperative.