Curriculum Vitae
The information below is a condensed version of my full CV. For the most updated version, please email me.
Education
Ph.D. Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2022
B.S. with distinction, Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, 2016
Professional Experience
Early Career Research Fellow, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology
Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 2023-present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence
Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 2023
Early-Career Fellow, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science
University of California, Los Angeles, CA; 2020-Present
Graduate Fellow, Ulana ʻIke Center of Excellence
Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 2021-2023
Laboratory Technician, Department of Integrative Biology
Finnegan Lab, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2016-2017
Research Assistant, Department of Geology & Geophysics
Hull, Planavsky Labs, Yale University, CT, 2013-2016
Select Academic and Extension Publications
Kahanamoku, S.S., Samuels-Fair, M., Kamel, S.M., Stewart, D., Wu, B. Kahn, L., Titcomb, M., Mei, Y.A., Bridge, R.C., Li, Y.S., Sinco, C., Epino, J.T., Gonzalez-Marin, G., Latt, C., Fergus, H., and Finnegan, S. High resolution images and 2D morphometrics of twenty-two thousand recent benthic foraminifera from the Santa Barbara Basin. Scientific Data (in review). Data available on Zenodo.
Finnegan, S., Harnik, P.G., Lockwood, R., Lotze, H.K., McClenachan, L., and Kahanamoku, S.S. Using the fossil record to understand extinction risk and inform climate-adapted conservation in a changing ocean. Annual Review of Marine Sciences (2023).
Kahanamoku, S.S. PhD dissertation: Common Era records of Santa Barbara Basin benthic foraminifera reveal nineteenth and twentieth century shifts in reproductive life history, body size, and community structure (Also available on ProQuest; 2022).
Chen, C. Y., Kahanamoku, S. S., Tripati, A., Alegado, R. A., Morris, V. R., Andrade, K., & Hosbey, J. Meta-Research: Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation. eLife 11:e83071 (2022).
Nguyen, K.H., Akiona, A.K., Chang, C.C., Chaudhary, V.B., Cheng, S.J. Johnson, S.M., Kahanamoku, S.S., Lee, A., deLeon Sanchez, E.E., Segui, L.M., and Tanner, R.L. Who are we? Highlighting nuances in Asian American experiences in ecology and evolutinary biology. Bull. Ecol. Soc. America 103: 1-8 (2022).
Kūlana Noiʻi Working Group. Kūlana Noiʻi v. 2. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program (2021).
Kahanamoku, S.S., Alegado, R.A., Kagawa-Viviani, A., Kamelamela, K.L., Kamai, B., Walkowicz, L.M., Prescod-Weinstein, C., de los Reyes, M.A., and Neilson, H. NAS White Paper: A Native Hawaiian-led summary of the impact of constructing the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea (2020).
Elder, L.E., Hsiang, A.Y., Nelson, K., Strotz, L.C., Kahanamoku, S.S., and Hull, P.M. Sixty-one thousand planktonic foraminifera from the Atlantic Ocean. Nature Scientific Data 5: 180109 (2018). Data available on Zenodo.
Kahanamoku, S.S., Hull, P.M., Lindberg, D.R., Hsiang, A.Y., Clites, E.C., and Finnegan, S. Twelve thousand recent patellogastropods from a northeastern Pacific latitudinal gradient. Nature Scientific Data 5: 170197 (2018).
Hsiang, A.Y., Nelson, K., Elder, L.E., Sibert, E.C., Kahanamoku, S.S., Berke, J.E., Kelly, A., Liu, Y., and Hull, P.M. AutoMorph: Accelerating morphometrics with automated 2D and 3D image processing and shape extraction. Methods Ecol. Evol. 9: 605-612 (2018).
Select Presentations
2022: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Oceanography Seminar. Kahanamoku, S.S. Resource allocation across scales: Life history & demography from benthic ecosystems to STEM research (Talk).
2022: National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference. Kahanamoku, S.S., Ward, S., Asuncion, B., Hintzen, K., and Alegado, R.A. Community-led Loko Iʻa Adaptation for Climate Resilience (Talk).
2022: Ocean Sciences Meeting. Kahanamoku, S.S., Samuels-Fair, M., and Finnegan, S. 2,000 years of reproductive dynamics in benthic foraminifera from the Santa Barbara Basin (Talk).
2021: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. Kahanamoku, S.S., Kamel, S.M., Bridge, R.C., Li, Y., Sinco, C., and Finnegan, S. Ecological and evolutionary responses of benthic ecosystems to 19th and 20th-century environmental changes: a high-resolution record from the Santa Barbara Basin, California (Talk).
2019: American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting. Kagawa-Viviani, A., Puniwai, N., Kahanamoku, S.S.*, Kawamata-Ryan, T., Kamelamela, K., Tong, E.I., and Alegado, R. Native Scientists in Action: Networks to reduce Indigenous STEM grad student isolation, facilitate peer-to-peer exchange, and advance visions of “pono science” (Talk, *presenting author).
Select Grants and Awards
2021-2023: University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Provost Strategic Investment Fund, $311,786; HISG Project: Restoring holistic abundance at Waialeʻe, Oʻahu
2020-2025: Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Early Career Fellowship, $10,000
2021-2022: Berkeley Connect Fellowship, $23,000
2020: Mid-American Paleontology Society Outstanding Student Research Award (Paleontological Society grant awarded to top-3 student proposals), $1,200
2018: Microsoft AI for Earth Grant, $10,000
2017-2022: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, $138,000
2017: UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship, $90,000 (deferred to 2019-2021)
Relevant Service
2018-2022: Research Mentor, UC Berkeley, CA (25 students)
2021-2022: Berkeley Connect Mentor, UC Berekley, CA (170 students)
2021-2022: Ad Hoc Panelist for the Position Statement on the Ethics of Geologic Fieldwork, Geological Society of America
2018-2019: Co-organizer, NorCal Paleo Conference, UC Berkeley, CA