Administration and Support
Stephanie Whalen
Executive Director (808) 621-1352 swhalen@harc-hspa.com |
Tyler Jones, MBA
Assistant Director of Research (808) 927-7508 tjones@harc-hspa.com 
Cynthia Pinick
Executive Secretary (808) 621-1350 cpinick@harc-hspa.com 
Ann Marsteller, M.L.S.
Librarian (808) 621-1354 amarsteller@harc-hspa.com |
Blake Vance, Ph.D.
Assistant Director/Facility Administrator (808) 621-1301 bvance@harc-hspa.com 
Florida Chow
Human Resources (808) 621-1353 fchow@harc-hspa.com 
Tiffany Pacheco
Administrative Secretary tpacheco@harc-hspa.com |
Alice Sharp, MBA,
Assistant Director, Finance & Controller (808) 621-1351 asharp@harc-hspa.com 
Sandra Mitani, BA
Accounts Payable/Receivable (808) 621-1355 smitani@harc-hspa.com |
Research Faculty
Chifumi Nagai, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist Plant Breeding/ Biotechnology (808) 621-1385 cnagai@harc-hspa.com |
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Yun Judy Zhu, Ph.D.
Biochemist Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genomics and Proteomics, Disease Resistance, Genetic Transformation (808) 621-1266 jzhu@harc-hspa.com |
Angel Del Valle Echevarria
Research Associate aechevarria@harc-hspa.com |
Robert V. Osgood
Agronomist Emiritus, Consultant rvosgood@aol.com |
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Susan Schenck, Ph.D.
Plant Pathologist Disease Diagnosis and Control, Microbiology, Nematology (808) 621-1386 sschenck@harc-hspa.com |
Nicklos Dudley, M.S.
Senior Forest Scientist/ Value -Added Enterprise Manager (808) 391-5421 ndudley@harc-hspa.com |
Research Support
Aileen Yeh
Hawaii Island Coordinator |
Kyle Onaga
Kunia Research Station Manager onagakyle@gmail.com |
Michael Kaufmann
Maunawili Research Station Manager mkaufmann@harc-hspa.com |
Rudy Dizor
Experimentalist (Maunawili substation) (808) 228-0148 |
Nellie Rulona
Laboratory Assistant |
Mary Joy Ancheta
Laboratory Assistant (808) 621-1394 |
Marjorie Ortega
Laboratory Assistant (808) 621-1394 
Nathan Fumia
Research Assistant nfumia@hawaii.edu 
Lyuen Huynh
Research Assistant 
Thunder Boy Galvez
Field Support |
Hideko Fields
Research Assistant 
Juli Burden
Research Assistant 
Mano'ike Delude
Field Support |
Adam Gutowski
Research Assistant 
Kieth Adams
Research Assistant 
Patrick Yuen
Field Support |
Affiliated Scientists
Qingyi Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Plant Molecular Biologist Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas AgriLife Research Center at Dallas (972)952-9225 qyu@ag.tamu.edu |
Ray Ming, Ph.D.
Professor of Plant Biology Plant Biology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 333-1221 rming@life.uiuc.edu |