Congratulations NREM Students
Award Winners
22nd Annual CTAHR Student Research Symposium
Mataia Reeves
CTAHR Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation
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Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Susan Crow |
Selita Ammondt
CTAHR MS Student Oral Presentation Award of Merit
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"Competition between native Hawaiian plants and the invasive grass Urochloa maxima: Implications of functional biodiversity for restoration." Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Creighton Litton |
Rodolfo Martinez Morales
NREM Best PhD Student Oral Presentation
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"Assessment of Acacia koa forest health across an elevation gradient in Hawai‘i using fine resolution remote sensing and GIS." Faculty Advisors: Dr. Travis Idol and Dr. James B. Friday |
Adel Youkhana
NREM Best PhD Student Poster Presentation
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Faculty Advisor: Dr. Travis Idol |
Ornthipa Mongkolsawat
NREM Best MS Student Oral Presentation
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"Bangkok Resident Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Beverage Container Deposit Program." Faculty Advisor: Dr. C. Chan-Halbrendt |
Noe Abejon and Cynthia Lai
NREM Best MS Student Poster Presentation
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"Student’s preference for a green fee at the University of Hawaii: a Conjoint Analysis." (~16MB) Other co-authors: Adam Bensley, Edho Ehod, Kara Miller, Ho Quoc Thong. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. C. Chan-Halbrendt |
Leena Muller
NREM Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation
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"Assessing Soil Carbon in Hawaii Wetland Soils with Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy." Co-author: Meryl L. McDowell Faculty Advisor: Dr. Greg Bruland |
Alisa Davis
NREM Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation
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"Feral cat population surveys and management options for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa." Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Lepczyk |







