Position, Department
Associate Professor
Math and Natural Sciences
Contact Information
Math and Natural Science Chair
Office - Building 3393 Room 125
Office tel.- (808) 934-2623
Email address: orlo@hawaii.edu
Courses Taught
- AG 175 and 175L Agroforestry
- AG 190v Internship
- AG 192 Special Topics
- AG 245 and AG 245L Silviculture and Tropical Plant Propagation
- AG 291 Forest Ecosystem Management / Rural and Urban Remote Sensing
- BIOL 156 and 156L Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands
- BOT 101 and 101L General Botany
- BOT 105 and 105L Ethnobotany
- GEO 170 and 170L Forest Ecosystem Surveying, Inventorying and Monitoring
- GEO 270 and 270L Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Research
- Steele, O. C. 2010. The Cultural and Ecological Importance of Mangroves in the SW Pacific. Verlag R. Muller Press.
- Steele O. C. 2005. Pandanus in J. Janick and R. Paull (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Fruits and Nuts CAB International, Wallingford, UK
- Seamon, J. D., Mann, S. S., Steele, O. C. and Utzurrum, R. C. B. 2006 The Conservation Value of Remnant Forest Patches: Tree Composition, Recruitment and Spatial Patterns in the Ottoville Lowland Forest, American Samoa. Pacific Science 60 (3) 319-332.
- Steele O. C., K. C. Ewel, G. Goldstein. 1999. The Importance of Propagule Predation in a Forest of Non-Indigenous Mangrove Trees. Wetlands 19 (3) 705-708.
- Santiago, L.S., T.L. Lau, P.J. Melcher, O.C. Steele and G. Goldstein. 2000. Morphological and physiological responses of three populations of Hawaiian Hibiscus tiliaceus to light and substrate salinity. International Journal of Plant Sciences 16(1): 14-20.
- Whistler, W. A., O. C. Steele 1999. Botanical survey of the United States of America Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) Islands Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education and the U.S. Army Environmental Center. 110 pp
Service
- Math and Natural Science Department Chair - 2023 to present
- Hawaiian Asian Pacific Committee - Chair
Professional Activities
- SF ATE Geospatial Remote Sensing Hawaii Grant 2022 -2025 Award of $650,000 to develop UAS and remote sensing curriculum
- USDA ANNH Hawaii One AG Grant - Campus Project Director - 2022-2026 Award of approximately $110,000 USD annually to support agricultural education and training
- Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Dec 2015 – Dec 2017 – Visiting Professor Appointment under Jinshan Scholars Program. Fuzhou, Fujian Provence China. Dec 2015 – Dec 2017.
- Francis Davis Teaching Award 2023
- Wo Teaching Award 2022
- Beatrice Krauss Fellowship in Botany 2004 – 2005