{"id":92221,"date":"2019-03-11T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T17:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=92221"},"modified":"2019-03-11T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:27:36","slug":"duffy-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/11\/duffy-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime achievement award for ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> M\u0101noa botany professor"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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David Duffy<\/strong>, botany professor and graduate professor of zoology, ecology, evolution and conservation biology in the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa Departments of Botany and Biology, was awarded the Pacific Seabird Group<\/a>\u2019s (PSG<\/abbr>) Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to seabird management and conservation science. Duffy was honored in February during the 46th annual PSG<\/abbr> meeting on Kauaʻi<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Duffy\u2019s research interests vary widely by ecosystem and organism, but his focus is on how natural environments respond to perturbations, either natural or man-made, at scales ranging from the individual through the landscape. <\/p>\n

His work has included the effect of El Niño on seabirds in Peru, as well as fishery interactions with seabirds in Peru, South Africa, Galápagos and Hawaiʻi<\/span>. Duffy has supported PSG<\/abbr>\u2019s conservation efforts in Alaska and Hawaiʻi<\/span> over the years and continues to keep the group informed about El Niño and La Niña predictions. <\/p>\n

Duffy was also principal investigator of a biocomplexity project on avian malaria, examining whether new approaches to science might yield answers to the biggest threat to the islands\u2019 endangered forest birds. <\/p>\n

He currently serves as director of the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit<\/a>, which manages more than 300 employees and more than $14 million in projects to conserve the resources of Hawaiʻi<\/span> and other Pacific Islands. <\/p>\n

PSG<\/abbr> created the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 to recognize individuals that have made significant, long-term contributions to seabird science, conservation and education in the Pacific Ocean or the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Duffy was awarded the Pacific Seabird Group\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to seabird management and conservation science. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[254,368,598,1363,367],"class_list":["post-92221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-biology","tag-botany","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-manoa-research","tag-pacific-cooperative-studies-unit","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92221"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92241,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92221\/revisions\/92241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}