Director Richard D. Allen, Manager Marilyn F. Dunlap and Supervisor Tina M. Weatherby Carvalho. Together they have more than 90 years of experience in electron microscopy.
Equipment is available for an hourly fee.
Clients can be trained to use the equipment or contract for limited staff services. BEMF supports basic cell, reproductive biology and neurobiological studies and research specific to the Pacific region, including investigations in aquaculture, botany, zoology, marine biology and oceanography, tropical agriculture, infectious disease and natural products chemistry. The facility also serves researchers of systematics, conservation and evolutionary biology from UHM, Bishop Museum and other organizations. Most instrumentation has been obtained with funding from the National Science Foundation biological instrumentation program, federal research grants and University matching funds. Although BEMF's primary goal is to support faculty research, the facility participates in the education of students through demonstrations to undergraduate and graduate classes, workshops in electron microscopical techniques and support for the research of undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral associates.