Dr Isabella Abbott, world-renowned algae taxonomist and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ethnobotany professor emerita. It’s with a heavy heart that I report that Dr. Isabella “Izzy” Abbott, scientist, passionate ocean science educator, and the foremost expert on central-Pacific algae, has passed away on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. She was 91. Born in Hāna, Hawaii, . . . → Read More: Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010)