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'''W. Arthur "Art" Whistler''' (c. 1944 – April 2, 2020) was an American [[ethnobotanist]], academic and writer. Whistler, an adjunct professor at the [[University of Hawaii]]'s Department of Botany, was an expert on tropical flora of the [[Pacific Islands]], especially [[Samoa]] and [[Tonga]].<ref name=hnn>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=hsa>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Once he completed his degrees, Whistler served in the [[Peace Corps]] as a teacher in [[Western Samoa]] (now known as Samoa).<ref name=hsa/> He then moved to Hawaii, where he completed a doctorate in botany from the [[University of Hawaii at Manoa]], focusing on Samoan plant life, in 1979.<ref name=hsa/>
After completing his Ph.D., Whistler was appointed to a position at the [[National Tropical Botanical Garden]] on [[Kauai]] and served as a researcher affiliated with the [[Bishop Museum]].<ref name=hsa/> He was an adjunct professor [[University of Hawaii]]'s Department of Botany and the [[Lyon Arboretum]], a botanical garden managed by the university.<ref name=hsa/> He also owned a [[consulting company]], Isle Botanica, and worked on projects focusing on plants in [[Fiji]], the [[Marshall Islands]], the [[Northern Mariana Islands]], Samoa, and Tonga.<ref name=hsa/>
Art Whistler worked on research project throughout [[Oceania]], but specialized in the flora of Samoa and [[Tonga]].<ref name=hsa/> According to colleagues, he knew the [[Samoan language]] name for nearly every [[native plant]] in that country.<ref name=hsa/> Whistler had first lived in Samoa during the 1970s, before the logging and tourism led to the deforestation of much of the country's rainforests.<ref name=hsa/> As a result, Whistler spent several decades training Samoans about the country's flora and its uses.<ref name=hnn/> Whistler not only sought to protect Samoa's forests through his programs, but also resurrect some of Samoa's lost cultural and practical uses for its native plant life.<ref name=hsa/>
Whistler authored more than a dozen books on the [[botany]] and [[ethnobotany]] of the Pacific Islands, including "Rainforest Trees of Samoa”, "Polynesian Herbal Medicine", "Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore", "Tongan Herbal Medicine", "Tropical Ornamentals: A Guide" (2000), and "Plants of the Canoe People: An Ethnobotanical Voyage through Polynesia", which focused on the plants utilized by [[Polynesian]] voyagers.<ref name=hnn/> He was nearing completion on another book, "Flora of Samoa", at the time of his death in 2020. Whistler also wrote numerous scholarly and scientific articles.<ref name=hsa/>
Art Whistler remained an active researcher and traveler into his 70s. He traveled to Europe in 2019 and recently took a cruise from Hawaii to [[Australia]] in January 2020.<ref name=hsa/>
Whistler was already showing symptoms of [[COVID-19]] when he returned to Hawaii from a trip to [[Washington state]] to visit family on March 4, 2020.<ref name=hnn/> He sought treatment at a Hawaiian [[urgent care]] facility, but was not tested for coronavirus, despite his symptoms.<ref name=hnn/> Whistler was taken by ambulance to Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu on March 7 due to shortness of breath.<ref name=hnn/><ref name=hsa/> He tested positive for COVID-19 on March 8 and was placed on life support on March 10th, but his condition continued to deteriorate over the next three weeks.<ref name=hsa/> Art Whistler died of COVID-19 at Kaiser Moanalua Hospital in Honolulu on April 2, 2020, at the age of 75.<ref name=hnn/> His death was Hawaii's third fatality related to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name=hnn/> He was survived by two children, Sean and Kira Matangi, and one sister.<ref name=hsa/>
At the time of his death, Whistler had nearly completed another book called "Flora of Samoa", which he had worked on for most of his professional life.<ref name=hsa/> The book was meant to be a definitive guide to Samoa's native plants.<ref name=hsa/>
==References==
[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:Ethnobotanists]]
[[Category:American botanists]]
[[Category:Peace Corps volunteers]]
[[Category:University of Hawaii faculty]]
[[Category:American expatriates in Samoa]]
[[Category:Deaths from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Hawaii]]
[[es:W. Arthur Whistler]]
Once he completed his degrees, Whistler served in the [[Peace Corps]] as a teacher in [[Western Samoa]] (now known as Samoa).<ref name=hsa/> He then moved to Hawaii, where he completed a doctorate in botany from the [[University of Hawaii at Manoa]], focusing on Samoan plant life, in 1979.<ref name=hsa/>
After completing his Ph.D., Whistler was appointed to a position at the [[National Tropical Botanical Garden]] on [[Kauai]] and served as a researcher affiliated with the [[Bishop Museum]].<ref name=hsa/> He was an adjunct professor [[University of Hawaii]]'s Department of Botany and the [[Lyon Arboretum]], a botanical garden managed by the university.<ref name=hsa/> He also owned a [[consulting company]], Isle Botanica, and worked on projects focusing on plants in [[Fiji]], the [[Marshall Islands]], the [[Northern Mariana Islands]], Samoa, and Tonga.<ref name=hsa/>
Art Whistler worked on research project throughout [[Oceania]], but specialized in the flora of Samoa and [[Tonga]].<ref name=hsa/> According to colleagues, he knew the [[Samoan language]] name for nearly every [[native plant]] in that country.<ref name=hsa/> Whistler had first lived in Samoa during the 1970s, before the logging and tourism led to the deforestation of much of the country's rainforests.<ref name=hsa/> As a result, Whistler spent several decades training Samoans about the country's flora and its uses.<ref name=hnn/> Whistler not only sought to protect Samoa's forests through his programs, but also resurrect some of Samoa's lost cultural and practical uses for its native plant life.<ref name=hsa/>
Whistler authored more than a dozen books on the [[botany]] and [[ethnobotany]] of the Pacific Islands, including "Rainforest Trees of Samoa”, "Polynesian Herbal Medicine", "Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore", "Tongan Herbal Medicine", "Tropical Ornamentals: A Guide" (2000), and "Plants of the Canoe People: An Ethnobotanical Voyage through Polynesia", which focused on the plants utilized by [[Polynesian]] voyagers.<ref name=hnn/> He was nearing completion on another book, "Flora of Samoa", at the time of his death in 2020. Whistler also wrote numerous scholarly and scientific articles.<ref name=hsa/>
Art Whistler remained an active researcher and traveler into his 70s. He traveled to Europe in 2019 and recently took a cruise from Hawaii to [[Australia]] in January 2020.<ref name=hsa/>
Whistler was already showing symptoms of [[COVID-19]] when he returned to Hawaii from a trip to [[Washington state]] to visit family on March 4, 2020.<ref name=hnn/> He sought treatment at a Hawaiian [[urgent care]] facility, but was not tested for coronavirus, despite his symptoms.<ref name=hnn/> Whistler was taken by ambulance to Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu on March 7 due to shortness of breath.<ref name=hnn/><ref name=hsa/> He tested positive for COVID-19 on March 8 and was placed on life support on March 10th, but his condition continued to deteriorate over the next three weeks.<ref name=hsa/> Art Whistler died of COVID-19 at Kaiser Moanalua Hospital in Honolulu on April 2, 2020, at the age of 75.<ref name=hnn/> His death was Hawaii's third fatality related to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name=hnn/> He was survived by two children, Sean and Kira Matangi, and one sister.<ref name=hsa/>
At the time of his death, Whistler had nearly completed another book called "Flora of Samoa", which he had worked on for most of his professional life.<ref name=hsa/> The book was meant to be a definitive guide to Samoa's native plants.<ref name=hsa/>
==References==
[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:Ethnobotanists]]
[[Category:American botanists]]
[[Category:Peace Corps volunteers]]
[[Category:University of Hawaii faculty]]
[[Category:American expatriates in Samoa]]
[[Category:Deaths from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Hawaii]]
[[es:W. Arthur Whistler]]
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