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CTAHR Conference
2025 CTAHR Conference: He ʻAʻaliʻi Kū Makani: Resilience Through Innovation
Friday April 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm HST
Linking family debt trajectories to children’s mental well-being
> Presenters: Hua Zan, Kelly Duong

Family Navigators: “Guides by the side” connecting families to government and community services and support
> Presenters: Ivette Stern, Archana Joshi, Barbara DeBaryshe, Rachel Engel

Connecting young children experiencing homelessness with early care and education programs
> Presenter: Barbara DeBaryshe

What's in your neighborhood: Community profiles of access to early education and care
> Presenters: Barbara DeBaryshe, Ivette Stern, Javzandulam Azuma

An Evaluation of the Western Extension Leadership Development Program (WELD): Opportunities for Steps into Leadership
> Presenters: Jeremy Elliott-Engel, Andree' Walker Bravo, Lendel Narine, Elizabeth Sparks, Wes Alford

Building Resilient Families and Communities Through Flower Arrangement Event
> Presenters: Sothy Eng, Makayla Sharp, Norman Tansey, Sariah Hernandez

Addressing Farmer Stress: Seeds of Wellbeing
> Presenters: Thao Le, John Souza, Emma Brown, Shubhanshu Jain

Partnering with GoFarm: How We Work with Faculty and Extension Agents for Farmer Impact
> Presenter: Laura Ediger

Hawaii Nutrition Center
> Presenters: Jean Butel, Deanna Au-Wong, Eileen Sanchez-Guerrero, Leihua Park

CTAHR’s Role in Strengthening Hawai‘i’s Farm to School Movement

> Presenter: Lydi Morgan Bernal

Identifying Blubber Trends and Patterns Through Histological Analysis on Three Stranded Fraser’s Dolphins (Lagenodelphis hosei)
> Presenter: Nicole Giannetti

Controlled Environment Agriculture for Hawai’i’s Climate
> Presenters: Ryan Kurasaki, Kent Kobayashi

CARES Food for Health - Developing Nutrient Information on Foods important to Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Region
> Presenters: Ashley McGuigan, Rachel Novotny, Monica Esquivel, Ilima Ho-Lastimosa, Theodore Radovich, Jordan Oshiro

ROOTED in Ag: Virtual Reality Tours
> Presenter: Christine Hanakawa

Foraging activity and the use of an improved hydrogel bait in managing invasive long-legged ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes, on Oahu, Hawaii
> Presenters: Jia-Wei Tay, Paul Krushelnycky, Shao-Xiong Cheah

Development of an attract-and-kill device containing a novel fungal biopesticide to control invasive fruit flies in Hawaii
> Presenters: Ikkei Shikano, Sarah Pennington

Consumer testing and surveys indicate a market for Peperomia mauiensis, an endemic succulent with potential use as an indoor potted plant
> Presenters: Orville Baldos, Hannah Lutgen

Peperomia mauiensis can tolerate low indoor light conditions for up to 12 months
> Presenters: Orville Baldos, Lindsey Watanabe, Sherry Ann Hara, Christyn Wong

Urban Tropical Tree Below Ground Root Mitigation
> Presenters: Dr. Andy Kaufman, Dr. Myles Ritchie

The Waimānalo Learning Center: Transforming Land-Grant Experiment Stations into Centers of Learning
> Presenters: Ted Radovich, Ilima Ho-Lastimosa, Theodore Radovich, Jane Chung-Do, Jari Sugano, Richard Fisher, LeShay Keliiholokai, Ikaika Rogerson, Kenneth Ho, Kirk Deitschman

GoFish Hawai’i: An Aquaponics Training Program for Small-Scale Fruit and Vegetable Growers

> Presenters: Ted Radovich, Bradley K. Fox, Theodore J.K. Radovich, Janel Yamamoto, Erik Shimizu and Pomai Weigert

Increasing Drought Resiliency in Maui County through the Strategic Use of Cover Crops
> Presenters: Jacqueline Jamison, Rosemary Gutierrez-Coarite; Hannah Lutgen

Enhancing Food Safety Training Capacity to Support Hawai‘i’s Small Processors and Sprout Growers
> Presenters: Kylie Tavares, Sharon Wages, Emilie Kirk, Joshua Silva

Developing an efficient workflow for detecting edits in three target genes that regulate photoperiod response in CRISPR-edited tropical maize
> Presenters: Michael Muszynski, Rina Carillo

Preliminary use of invasive tree ferns as a high-quality orchid substrate
> Presenter: James Keach

Variegated native plants: the next frontier to increase the landscape use of native plants in Hawai‘i
> Presenters: Orville Baldos, Paulo-Victor Lima de Matos, Lindsey Watanabe

TPSS 300 Tropical Production Systems---The Course on the Edge of Forever
> Presenter: Kent Kobayashi

Crop Diversity and Variety Selection for Hawaii Micro-Climates
> Presenters: Amjad Ahmad, Hue V Nguyen, Theodore Radovich, Jari Sugano, Jensen Uyeda, Joshua Silva, Emilie Kirk, Sharon Wages, Kylie Tavares, Rosemary Gutierrez-Coarite, Jennifer Hawkins, Eric Collier



















































Friday April 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm HST
Campus Center Ballroom

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