Martin Frye

Martin was born and raised in Missouri, and attended Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, earning  B.A. degrees in Environmental Studies and Hispanic Studies. After serving in AmeriCorps, he sought diverse field experience in conservation biology, ranging from forest pathology with the Institute of Forest Genetics, desert fisheries with Grand Canyon National Park, and alpine botany with the North Coast and Cascades Inventory and Monitoring Network. He was initially introduced to avian monitoring while working for the Institute for Bird Populations. Martin came to Hawaiʻi nei to work for the Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project in 2017, eventually transitioning to the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project in 2024. Among his favorite pursuits are baseball, the Spanish language, and playing the drums.