Potential Informational Contacts for Big Island Data

Mostly from the 1990s, many are out of date.

Company Contacts

• Emerge contact
  • Mark Brennan, mwbrennan@emerge.wsicorp.com, www.emergeweb.com  978-262-0672
• USDA commissioned the Emerge aerials
  • George Rohaley, remote sensing leader for the Natural Resources Conservation Service
    (301) 504 2268 george.rohaley@usda.gov
• ESRI: Royse(?) Jones is in charge of ESRI stuff for Hawai'i

Individuals

• Wade Lee, wlee@makani.k12.hi.us
  • Biologist, Teaches Science at Honoka‘a High
  • Involved in koa farming above Hilo, with extensive mapping of the area
• Travis Heggie, at one time a geographer and park ranger for HVNP
  • did extensive study of mamane forest, trunk and canopy size
  • was on the island, now at a mainland university
• May be able to give names of Architects and Designers who would be interested and helpful:
  Doug Schilling [ dswaimea@gte.net ], P.O. Box 6240, Kamuela Hi 96743, 808-885-5044
• Kevin Daly, model-builder on Oahu, knows some big island ppl
  • Scale Architecture Int. - scalearch@aol.com
• Big Island Hydro-Electric Coop, bihe_coop@yahoo.com
  • Glen Felton, President, 808-882-7755
  • Edith Ransom, Secretary, 808-329-1999

USGS

• Biological Resources Division (BRD)
  • Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center, Kilauea Field Station
  • in HVNP - go though toll, take first left, right at first stopsign, continue to office buildings
  • P.O. Box 44 - Building 344, Hawai‘i National Park, HI 96718
  • Jim Jacobi, (808) 967-7396 x229 (James D. Jacobi), jim_jacobi@usgs.gov
    • 99.04.01 learned a lot:
      The Hawai‘i Vegetation Mapping Project died and the funding expired.
      Currently, there is a consortium, including BRD, USFWS and the park service, that has put a proposal into NASA for fresh data and new attempt at classification
      Jim has excellent data.  I sent a formal letter 99.04.01, requesting the data.  Never got a response.  Later (2001) it appears that it is on the State GIS site?
  • Gerald Lindsey, 808-967-7396 x232, gerald_lindsey@usgs.gov
    • "Principle investigator", not a computer guy, but good informational contact
  • Ron Kerner, handles their computer systems, (808) 985-6077
• Hawaii and Pacific Basin Islands Mapping Partnership Office
  • Henry Wolter, Phone: 808-587-2409, E-mail: hwolter@usgs.gov
  • he is listed in the Hawai'i I-Plan 1.1 as the contact for DOQs
• Volcano Observation building, located in HVNP next to Jaggar Museum
  • Arnold Okamura, 967-8820, general information, arnold@usgs.gov
    • 5/99 Arnold says lava flow data may be released soon in GIS form
  • Don Swanson - Arnold's boss - person to talk to about aquiring that data
  • USGS Librarian, 967-8811
  • "geological map" of the island was produced by this department, by Ed Wolfe, in 1998
  • USGS in Denver: (303) 202-4700

Other Organizations

• USFWS - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • USFWS local refuge manager's office is in Hilo
  • USFWS Honolulu main office, 808 541-3441
• What is the relationship between the USGS BRD and the USFWS? Only that they're both under the Department of the Interior..
• Virtually Hawai‘i was "a NASA funded project managed from the Hawai‘i Space Grant College to make NASA data available to educators and the general public over the internet." Team members:
  • Peter Mouginis-Mark pmm@kahana.pgd.hawaii.edu (808) 956-3147
    • maintained all the copyright for all of the materials contained within Virtually Hawai‘i unless stated otherwise
  • Curator: Dr. Lori Glaze, lori@puuoo.gsfc.nasa.gov
    • at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
    • in the Maryland/Virginia area, (301) 262-0914
    • her main work involves studying volcanic plumes, much use of IDL
  • Stephanie Thliveris-Harrison, assistant to Lori
  • Shana Frankel, 301-286-2855, may no longer be working with Lori
  • Page Design: Laurence Laforga laforga@kahana.pgd.hawaii.edu

County of Hawai‘i Government:

• Website: http://www.hawaii-county.com/
  • Webmaster: David Haswell, cohweb@interpac.net

• Lisa Wong is GIS coordinator for the county.

• PLANNING DEPARTMENT
  (County of Hawai‘i Directory - Department of Planning)
  • 25 Aupuni Street, Room 109, Hilo 96720
  • Hanama Place, 75-5706 Kuakini Hwy., Suite 108, Kailua-Kona 96740, Phone: 327-3510
  • DIRECTOR .................. VIRGINIA GOLDSTEIN ...................... 961-8288
  • DEPUTY DIRECTOR .......... RUSSELL KOKUBUN ........................ 961-8565, FAX: 961-8742
  • 99.04.01 talked to zoning clerk: Esther - said some data is computerized, not sure how much, they don't depend on the computerized TMK info because it's not kept up-to-date, says talk to 961-8366 Research and Development (R&D said talk to Planning)
  • 99.06.18 talked to Esther again. She gave me to Roy in the planning department.  Roy said there are 2 maps with zoning information - the large maps in the General Plan, and more detailed current Zoning Maps (30 for the whole island).   The General Plan map is slated to be computerized this year, by Gilbert, using ArcView.  The Zoning Maps are not slated.  They are not available directly from the Planning Department either.  There are bluprint service companies, such as "Hilo Drafting Services", which can get ahold of the Zoning Maps and send copies.
    
• DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
  (County of Hawai‘i Directory - Department of Public Works)
• • 25 Aupuni Street, Room 202, Hilo 96720
  • CHIEF ENGINEER ............ __________________ ........................ 961-8321
  • DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER .... JIRO SUMADA ............................. 961-8321 / FAX: 969-8630
  • Automotive Division
    • Acting Division Head ......... Leslie Botelho .............................. 961-8548
  • Building Division
    • Division Head .............. Wayne T. Onomura ......................... 961-8331
  • Engineering Division
    • Division Head .............. Galen M. Kuba ............................. 961-8327
  • Highway Maintenance Division
    • Division Head .............. Stanley S. Nakasone ......................... 961-8349
    • engineer: Joe Chopra "
    • main guy re: roads for the County of Hawai‘i"..
    • • 99.04.01 Joe says:
        he was a "photogrammetry man" originally
        big island roads are still maintained on paper maps, not to scale, he keeps the maps in a big bundle
        his boss Stanley is on vacation till May
        Joe did request aerial photos for the entire road system, costing around $20k
        the department is starting to consider computerizing, using the numbering scheme from the tax key maps
        he recommends talking to his department supervisor, Jiro Sumada, 961-8321
        Jiro will be back in his office 99.04.05
  • Solid Waste Division
    • Division Head .............. Walter R. Lucas ............................ 961-8339
  • Traffic Division
    • Division Head .............. Richard H. Nishimura ........................ 961-8341
  • Wastewater Division
    • Division Head .............. Peter Boucher .............................. 961-8338
  • Building and Engineering Division
    • Hanama Place
      75-5706 Kuakini Hwy., Suite 109-111
      Kailua-Kona 96720
    • Building ............................................................. 327-3520
    • Engineering .......................................................... 327-3530
• AGENCY: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
  (County of Hawai‘i Directory - Department of Research and Development)
  • DEPARTMENT HEAD: Diane Quitiquit, Director
  • East Hi: 25 Aupuni Street Rm. 219, Hilo, HI 96720
    West Hi: Hanama Place, 75-5706 Kuakini Hwy Suite 103,
    Kailua-Kona,HI 96740
  • East Hi:  961-8366
    West Hi:  329-5226
  • 99.04.01, Marsha says: talk to Colette
    Colette says: they have some computerized data, TMKs, but their access is temporary (?) contact: Brad 808 738-0100, product is Win2Data2000, company is "first american real estate solutions" out of Anaheim, CA.
    The County Website is maintained by some 3rd party webmaster.