Honolulu, HI
Interviewee Sort ascending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Thea Johanos | Voices from the Science Centers |
Thea Johanos has been a research wildlife biologist with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (and its precursor, the Honolulu Lab) since 1982. She grew up in both Texas and Pennsylvania, and did her undergraduate and graduate work at Penn State University. After graduate school, she applied for work in Hawaii, as her family had just moved there. Her first job in Hawaii was with the US Forest Service working with Hawaiian honeycreepers and other forest birds. |
Edward Glazier | Honolulu, HI | NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center | |
Sam Kalilikane, Sr. | Tsunamis in Maui County: Oral Histories |
A man who grew up in MolokaI talks about his family background, fishing, his schooling, family life, and moving to Honolulu. He describes his experience of the 1946 tidal wave that hit the east end of Molokai. |
Jeanne Johnston | Honolulu, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History | |
Sabas T. Jamito | Kalihi: Place of Transition |
Sabas T. Jamito, Tagalog, was born in Camarines Norte, Philippines on January 12, 1912. At the age of five months, he and his family immigrated to the Big Island of Hawaii. Until 1922, when the family moved to Hilo, Sabas lived on various sugar plantations: Papaaloa, Paauilo, Ookala, and Olaa. While in Hilo, Sabas helped his father in the sugarcane fields and earned money as a shoe shine boy. He attended Kapiolani School, Hila Union School, Hilo Intermediate, and Hila High. In 1929, Sabas began his boxing career in Hilo, making five dollars a fight. |
Warren Nishimoto | Honolulu, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History | |
Russell "Rusty" Brainard | Voices from the Science Centers |
Dr. Rusty Brainard began work for NOAA on the first day he graduated from Texas A&M University in May of 1981. Shortly thereafter he was assigned as Station Chief for the Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change Station at the South Pole, Antarctica. From 1984-2002, he was based at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey, California studying |
Edward Glazier | Honolulu, HI | NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center | |
Robert Humphreys | Voices from the Science Centers |
Robert Humphreys was born in Newport Beach California, April 30, 1953. He grew up fishing in his big backyard, the Pacific Ocean and Newport Beach, California. Bob became a marine biology major at the University of California, Berkeley where he studied leopard sharks and bat rays in Bodega Bay. After graduating with his bachelor's degree, Bob then worked for the California Fish and Game office before heading to Hawaii in 1977. He began working at the NMFS Honolulu Laboratory during that year. |
Edward Glazier | Honolulu, HI | NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center | |
Michael Seki | Voices from the Science Centers |
Born and raised in Hawaii, Dr. Seki received his B.S. in Biology from the University of Oregon- Eugene, his M.S. in Oceanography from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and his PhD in Marine Environment and Resources from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Fisheries Science in Hakodate. He began working with at the Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center in 1980. He is currently the Science Center Director. Interview contains discussions of: Seabirds, high seas drift nets, satellite technology, seamounts, long line fisheries, swordfish, tuna, JIMAR. |
Edward Glazier | Honolulu, HI | NOAA-NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center | |
Michael Seki | NOAA Heritage Oral History Project |
In his role as Director of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Dr. Seki provides the science direction and oversight of research activities that support stewardship of living marine resources in the vast expanse of the Pacific Islands Region. Since joining NOAA Fisheries in 1980, Dr. Seki has conducted extensive fisheries, oceanographic, and ecosystem research on many marine species in the Pacific. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 scientific papers and participated in over 20 domestic and international research surveys. |
Molly Graham | Honolulu, HI | NOAA Heritage Program, National Weather Service | |
Leonard Yamada | Hawai‘i Bottomfish Heritage Project |
Oral history interview with Leonard Yamada. |
Bob Moffitt | Honolulu, HI | NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center | |
Kurt Kawamoto | Hawai‘i Bottomfish Heritage Project |
Oral history interview with Kurt Kawamoto. |
Bob Moffitt | Honolulu, HI | NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center | |
Kenny Corder | Hawai‘i Bottomfish Heritage Project |
Oral history interview with Kenny Corder. |
Bob Moffitt | Honolulu, HI | NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center |