Will
McClatchey, R.Ph., Ph.D. Associate
Professor, Department of Botany;
Research Associate, Natural Products and Cancer Biology Program,
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii;
Graduate Faculty, College of Natural Sciences
M.S.
(Ethnobotany), Brigham Young University;
Ph.D. (Systematic Botany), University of Florida, Gainesville;
Registered Pharmacist (Hawaii, Oregon)
My continuing
research includes studies of: The flora, ethnobotany, and
prehistory of the Solomon Islands and the Rotuma islands;
Polynesian and Melanesian ethnobotany/ economic botany/ ethnopharmacology;
Theoretical ethnobotany; Morphology-based cladistic relationships
of the Calamoideae; Evolutionary trends in Arecaceae, and
palm and monocot systematics in general; and Theoretical systematics.
My research goals and interests lie in exploration of the
relatively unstudied cultures and plants of the western Solomon
Islands.
Research for the Cancer Research Center includes identification,
collection and preparation of plant samples for bioassay analysis.
Samples are selected for cultural, taxonomic, and ecological
reasons.
McClatchey,
Will 1999. Introductory Ethnobotany. Kendall-Hunt Publishing,
Dubuque, Iowa.
McClatchey,
Will & Valerie McClatchey. 1999. One-way bridges: Ethical
dilemmas faced by Polynesian healers who share their knowledge.
In Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge: An Exploration
of Issues Involving Indigenous peoples, Conservation, Development
and Ethnoscience. Edited by Alexandra Paul and Charles Peters.
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, in press.
McClatchey,
Will 1999. Phylogenetic Analysis of Morphological Characters
of Metroxylon Section Coelococcus (Palmae) and Resulting Implications
for Studies of Other Calamoideae Genera. Pp. 285-306 in Evolution,
Variation, and Classification of Palms. Edited by Andrew Henderson.
Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden.
McClatchey,
Will 1998. A New Species of the Genus Metroxylon (Arecaceae)
from Western Samoa. Novon, volume 8:252-258.
McClatchey,
Will 1996. The Ethnopharmacopoeia of Rotuma. Journal of
Ethnopharmacology, Vol. 50 pp 147-156.
Nagle,
Dale G., Will McClatchey & William H. Gerwick. 1992. New
Glycosphingolipids from the Marine Sponge, Halichondria panicea.
Journal of Natural Products, Vol. 55 No. 7 pp 1013-1017.
