Honolulu, HI
Interviewee Sort descending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |