Tobi Research


2008

• Sarah Klain: Ancient Navigators of the Pacific. Sea Stories, Vernal 2008.

2006

• Aunchalee Elaine Loscalzo, Ph.D.: Populations in transition, medicines in motion: Migration, health, and healing in Echang hamlet, Republic of Palau, Micronesia. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2006, 388 pages; ProQuest full citation and abstract: AAT 3216071.
  
  
• Aunchalee Loscalzo: Appendices to her dissertation—the data were collected in Echang and reflect a mixture of Tobian, Palauan, and English illness terms and plant names.
  • Appendix A: Tobian Illness Terms (pronounciations provided by Justin Andrew)
  • Appendix B: Botanical Pharmacopoeia of Echang Hamlet, Koror
    
    
• Julie Barr: Community-based sea turtle monitoring and management at Helen Reef, Hatohobei State, Republic of Palau. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. 204 pp.

2005

• Aunchalee Loscalzo:  Preliminary list of plants commonly mentioned by Tobians as being medicinal.
  
  
• Rebecca J. Rundell: The Land Snails of Belau: Survey of the 16 States. Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago and Department of Zoology, Field Museum, Chicago.

2004

• Aunchalee Loscalzo: Plants in Chuuk and Echang

2002

• Huan Hosei: Rural Education in Palau: A Second Look at Tobi Elementary School
• Huan Hosei: Survey Questionnaire on Tobi Elementary School
• David Tibbetts: Tobian Cultural Identity in the Republic of Palau . MA Thesis.
• David Tibbetts:  Tobian Futures in the Republic of Palau. Dissertation Proposal
• Anthony Watson, Alfred Pedro, Laura Ierago: Research Paper: Ethnic Food Preparation and Eating Habits of the Southwest Island Natives of Palau
  

2001

• Aunchalee E. Loscalzo: Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People: Diet, Disease, and Natural Resource Management in Palau. Dissertation Proposal
• Jane Barnwell: Friends of Tobi Island: a web site review

2000

• Peter W. Black: Planning for the Future of Helen Reef
  

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