As far back as I can remember, I have been passionate about plants and wildlife, especially birds. Growing up, I rehabilitated injured and baby birds, learned effective treatments, and executed successful releases over many years. I received my B.S. in Agriculture with a specialty in Tropical Horticulture and a Certificate in Plant Tissue Culture from the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management at UH Hilo, and worked part-time in the CAFNRM Plant Tissue Culture Lab. I received my M.S. from the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Program, UH Hilo. My thesis research focused on describing vocal characteristics of the ˊAlalā, or Hawaiian Crow (Corvus hawaiiensis), and on comparing the current captive population with the past wild population.
Since receiving my M.S. in 2014, I’ve been working in the Hart Lab (LOHE Bioacoustics Lab) where we are researching native Hawaiian forest birds, seabirds, and our native Hawaiian hoary bat, or 'Ōpe'ape'a. We focus on studying our amazing Hawaiian species by collecting data with both hand-held and automated recorders, analyzing various species unique vocalizations and behaviors, using ornithological radar to detect nocturnal species, as well as studying vegetation and forest/environmental structure to determine its impact on these precious Hawaiian avian and mammalian species.
Publications
Data set- Amanda Navine, Stefan Kahl, Ann Tanimoto-Johnson, Holger Klinck, & Patrick Hart. (2022). A collection of fully-annotated soundscape recordings from the Island of Hawai'i (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7078499
Hart P. J., T. Ibanez, K. Paxton, G. Tredinnick, E. Sebastian-Gonzalez, and A. Tanimoto-Johnson. 2021 Timing is Everything: Acoustic Niche Partitioning in Two Tropical Wet Forest Bird Communties. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Vol. 9:753363
Esther Sebastian-Gonzalez, R. J. Camp, A. M. Tanimoto, P. M. de Oliveira, B. B. Lima, T. A. Marques, P. J. Hart. 2018. Density estimation of sound-producing terrestrial animals using single automatic acoustic recorders and distance sampling. Avian Conservation and Ecology 13(2):7
Hart, P.J., E. Sebastian-Gonzalez, A. Tanimoto, A. Thompson, T. Speetjens, M. Hopkins, M. Atencio-Picado, 2018. Birdsong characteristics are related to fragment size in a neotropical forest. Animal Behaviour 137:45-52
Tanimoto, A. M. and P. J. Hart. 2018. 'Akeke'e (Loxops caeruleirostris) Foraging Techniques: Targeting psyllid nymphs in 'ohi'a galls. Elepaio 78(1):1-3
Tanimoto, A.M., P.J. Hart, A.A. Pack, R. Switzer, P.C. Banko, D.L. Ball, E. Sebastian-Gonzalez, L. Komarczyk, and M.H. Warrington. 2017. Changes in vocal repertoire of the Hawaiian Crow, Corvus hawaiiensis from past wild to current captive populations. Animal Behaviour 123:427-432
Tanimoto, A.M., P.J. Hart, A.A. Pack, and R. Switzer. 2017. Vocal Repertoire and Signal Characteristics of 'Alala, the Hawaiian Crow (Corvus hawaiiensis). The Wilson's Journal of Ornithology 129(1):25-35
