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Administration and Support

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Stephanie Whalen
Executive Director
(808) 621-1352
swhalen@harc-hspa.com

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Tyler Jones, MBA
Director of Research
(808) 927-7508
tjones@harc-hspa.com

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Ann Marsteller, M.L.S.
Librarian
(808) 621-1354
amarsteller@harc-hspa.com


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Tiffany Pacheco
​Administrative Secretary
​(808) 621-1350
​tpacheco@harc-hspa.com

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Blake Vance, Ph.D.
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Assistant Director/Facility Administrator
(808) 383-8419
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bvance@harc-hspa.com 

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Florida Chow
Human Resources
(808) 621-1353
fchow@harc-hspa.com


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Alice Sharp, MBA,
Assistant Director, Finance & Controller
(808) 621-1351 asharp@harc-hspa.com



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Sandra Mitani, BA
Accounts Payable/Receivable
(808) 621-1355
smitani@harc-hspa.com

Research Faculty

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​Chifumi Nagai, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Plant Breeding/ Biotechnology
(808) 621-1385
cnagai@harc-hspa.com


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Ming-Li Wang, Ph.D.
Plant Molecular Biologist
Molecular Biology
(808) 621-1389
mwang@harc-hspa.com



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Maureen M. Fitch, Ph.D.
Plant Physiologist
(808) 621-1375
mfitch@harc-hspa.com


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Angel Del Valle Echevarria Ph.D.
​Research Associate
aechevarria@harc-hspa.com

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Nicklos Dudley, M.S.
Senior Forest Scientist/ Value -Added Enterprise Manager
(808) 391-5421
ndudley@harc-hspa.com


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Robert V. Osgood, Ph.D.
Agronomist Emeritus, Consultant
rvosgood@aol.com​

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Xiaoling He, Ph.D.
Research Associate
(808) 621-1303
 xhe@harc-hspa.com



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Susan Schenck, Ph.D.
Plant Pathologist
Disease Diagnosis and Control, Microbiology, Nematology
sschenck@harc-hspa.com


Research Support

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Aileen Yeh
Hawaii Island Coordinator


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Kyle Onaga
Kunia Research Station Manager
​onagakyle@gmail.com



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Michael Kaufmann
Maunawili Research Station Manager
mkaufmann@harc-hspa.com

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Rudy Dizor
Experimentalist (Maunawili substation)
(808) 228-0148


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Nellie Rulona
Laboratory Assistant

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Mary Joy Ancheta
Laboratory Assistant
(808) 621-1394



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Marjorie Ortega
Laboratory Assistant
(808) 621-1394


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Huynh Cong Luyen, Ph.D.
Research Assistant ​

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Clark Camp
​Research Assistant

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Thunder Boy Galvez
​Field Support

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Juli Burden
​Research Assistant

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Nathan Fumia, B.A.Sc.
​Research Assistant
​nfumia@hawaii.edu

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Mano'ike Delude
​Field Support

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Adam Gutowski
Research Assistant

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Keith Adams
​Research Assistant

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Patrick Yuen
​Field Support 




Affiliated Scientists

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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


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Ray Ming, Ph.D.
Professor of Plant Biology
Plant Biology Department,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 333-1221
rming@life.uiuc.edu



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