Job Opportunity: Hawaiian Rare Plant Program specialist at Lyon Arboretum

[Tina Stanley]

Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaiʻi is searching for a Director for the Hawaiian Rare Plant Program. The position is for a tenure-track, open-rank, faculty specialist. A brief description is posted below, and full details can be found here (and is attached as a pdf).

The Lyon Arboretum is an Organized Research Unit at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Lyon’s Hawaiian Rare Plant Program (HRPP) is a research and gene bank curatorial program that serves as the primary ex situ native Hawaiian plant germplasm repository for the State of Hawai’i, and represents one of the major means by which the Lyon Arboretum contributes to plant conservation. The mission of the HRPP is to prevent further extinction of native Hawaiian plant species and Polynesian introduced crop plants, to propagate plants for approved restoration projects and garden use, and to initiate and maintain an ex situ germplasm collection of the “critically endangered” Hawaiian plants. The HRPP works cooperatively, in joint conservation efforts with other botanical gardens, various state and federal agencies, and other environmental conservation organizations and land managers. The HRPP Seed, Micropropagation, and Cryopreservation Conservation Laboratories collectively bank >33 million seeds, and >43,000 in-vitro living plant collections, representing >600 native Hawaiian plant taxa. For more information about the program, refer to: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/lyon/research/hrpp/

Please contact Don Drake (dondrake@hawaii.edu) if you have any questions about the position.

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