Most faculty are based at IfA Mānoa, located in the city of Honolulu on the island of O‘ahu. Some are located on the neighbor islands, at our IfA Hilo and IfA Maui locations.
Christoph Baranec * Faculty Chair (2021-current), Astronomer
IfA Hawaii island, Hilo 214 (808) 932-2318; Manoa C109D (808) 956-8637
(808) 498-9817
Robo-AO, Robo-AO-2 (Palomar, Kitt Peak, Maunakea), Robo-AO Kepler Planetary Candidate Survey, Rapid Transient Surveyor, `imaka (PI: M. Chun), IfA TechTalks
Michael Bottom * Assistant Astronomer
Bobby Bus * Astronomer; IRTF Deputy Director
Asteroids
Mark Chun * Specialist, Associate Director of IfA-Hilo
`imaka - A ground-layer adaptive optics testbed for Maunakea, Keck near-infrared pyramid wavefront sensor, MIRAO - A thermal infrared optimized AOS for TMT, UH88AM2 - A new adaptive secondary mirror for the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter Telescope
Michael Connelley * Associate Astronomer; IRTF Support Scientist
Klaus Hodapp * Astronomer and UKIRT director
JWST NIRCam GTO: Spectroscopy of spatially separated exoplanets, JWST NIRCam GTO: Dust and Ice in Molecular Cores
