ESTDatS People

Lab Director

• Grace CHIU

Lab Assistant

• Madison GRIFFIN
  VIMS By-pass Student (Fall 2023 - present)
  

Lab Researchers - Current

• Mahshid AHMADIAN (VIMS Affiliate and VCU PhD Student)
  
  • 2023 VA Sea Grant Graduate Fellow
• Madison GRIFFIN
  ESTDatS RA (Aug 2023), VIMS By-pass Student (Fall 2023 - present)
• Aileen MCDONALD
  ESTDatS RA (joint in Mary Fabrizio's lab, Jun-Aug 2025), VIMS By-pass Student (Fall 2025 -)

Lab Researchers - Past

• Julie GROSS (2022-2025)
  VIMS PhD Student, 2024 Zeigler Student Achievement Awardee
• Kate DAVIS (through MSCI497 in 2021-2022 and RAship in 2022)
  W&M Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics (CAMS) Applied Statistics Track Undergraduate Student
• Challen HYMAN (2009-2023)
  VIMS PhD Student, 2021 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellow
• Christian LONGO (2021-2022)
  CAMS Applied Statistics Track Undergraduate Honors Student
  • Thesis defended on 2022-05-09: Bayesian Spatial Model Development of Soil Core Organic Matter as a proxy for Blue Carbon Stocks within the Chesapeake Bay 
• Caleb BAKER (2020-2021 through MSCI497 and CAMS Undergraduate Honors Program)
  Inaugural Honors Student in CAMS Applied Statistics Track
  • Thesis defended on 2021-05-03: A Diagnosis of the Computational Implementation of Bayesian Melding for the Integrated Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (iRUSLE) Applied to Australian Subcatchments
    
  • 2021 Candlelight Speaker
  • 2021 Cypher Award recipient
  • featured in CAMS brochure
• Kayla RUTHERFORD (Summer 2019), VIMS REU Intern

VIMS Collaborators on Current/Recent Projects

• Julie HERMAN, Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM)
• John HOENIG, Natural Resources
• Rom LIPCIUS, Marine Conservation Ecology Lab
• Molly MITCHELL, CCRM
• Kevin WENG, Natural Resources

External Collaborators on Current Projects

• Jason ADRIANCE, Finfish Program Manager, Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries
• Mark ALBINS, Research Associate and Instructor, U of South Alabama
• Nate BACHELER, Research Fishery Biologist, NOAA
• Caleb BAKER, Product Manager, Capital One
• Ed BOONE, Professor, VA Commonwealth U
• Kevin BOSWELL, Professor, Florida International U
• Josh BOWDEN, Research Software Engineer, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation
• Jeff BUCKEL, Professor, North Carolina State U
• Matt CATALANO, Associate Professor, Auburn U
• Michael DANCE, Assistant Professor, Lousiana State U
• Mark DAWKINS, Analyst, Zen Energy
• Adrian DOBRA, Professor, U of Washington Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
• Marcus DRYMON, Associate Extension Professor, Mississippi State U
• Challen HYMAN, Associate Research Scientist, U of S Florida
• Swen KUH, Senior Research Officer, Australian Institute of Family Studies 
• Steve MIDWAY, Associate Professor, Lousiana State U
• Steve MURAWSKI, Professor, U of South Florida
• Nicole PHILLIPS, Associate Professor, U of Southern Mississippi
• Sean POWERS, Professor, U of South Alabama
• Jay ROOKER, Professor, Texas A&M U @ Galveston
• Kayla RUTHERFORD, Owner, Enchanted Realms Co.
• Eric SAILLANT, Associate Professor, U of Southern Mississippi
• Steven SCYPHERS, Associate Professor, U of South Alabama
• Brad SHERMAN, Adjunct Associate Professor^#, U of Canberra Institute of Applied Ecology
• Lynne STOKES, Professor Emeritus, Southern Methodist University
• Greg STUNZ, Professor, Texas A&M U @ Corpus Christi
• Ted SWITZER, Research Scientist, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
• David WELLS, Professor, Texas A&M U @ Galveston
• Anton WESTVELD, Senior Lecturer^#, ANU
• Allison WHITE, Marine Fisheries Scientist, NOAA Fisheries
• Malcolm WOLFF, PhD Student, U of Washington

_{# Australian Associate Professor is equivalent to North American Full Professor, Australian Senior Lecturer, to North American Associate Professor, and Australian/British Lecturer and Level B, to North American Assistant Professor.}