ESTDatS helped to successfully recruit incoming By-pass student, Aileen McDonald (American University '25), who will be coadvised by Mary Fabrizio and Grace Chiu starting Summer 2025. Huge thanks to By-pass student Madison Griffin for helping to coordinate Aileen's itinerary during her visit.
Madison gave an invited poster presentation on her oyster resiliency research at the 10th HBCU Climate Change Conference (Mar 5-9). She also continues her training in the "Enhancing Organizational Climate Through Leadership Development" program offered by the VIMS Office of Inclusion and Belonging.
Affiliate PhD student Mahshid Ahmadian became a committee member for VA Women in HPC.
Grace gave an invited talk (Mar 27) at the Virginia Tech Statistics Colloquium on model-based calibration of fishery resource survey data. This work is part of a $12M project to estimate the abundance of Greater Amberjack at the continental scale.
Feb 2025 news
By-pass student Madison Griffin gave an invited presentation at Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association Annual meeting (Feb 8). She also started her training in the "Enhancing Organizational Climate Through Leadership Development" program offered by the VIMS Office of Inclusion and Belonging.
Affiliate PhD student Mahshid Ahmadian gave an invited presentation at the VA Women in HPC meeting with the theme “Real Stories about Using HPC in Research” (Feb 25).
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 news
By-pass student Madison Griffin received the CB Trust Chesapeake Oyster Innovation Award for her research proposal, travel scholarship to present at the 10th HBCU Climate Change Conference (March 2025, New Orleans), and gave invited talks at Black in Marine Science (BIMS) Week 2024 (San Diego) and the W&M Biomath F24 Seminar Series.
Affiliate PhD student Mahshid Ahmadian presented a poster at the NSF Workshop on Data-driven Modeling and Prediction of Rare and Extreme Events (Chicago) as the only student among all workshop presenters, and also at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Washington-Baltimore Section F24 Meeting.
Grace Chiu gave an invited Statistics Dept Seminar at UBC, and chaired the Modern Approaches session that she organized for The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) 2024 Conference (Adelaide).
