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 Fellow
Madison GRIFFIN
ESTDatS RA (Aug 2023), VIMS By-pass Student (Fall 2023 - present)
Julie GROSS
VIMS PhD Student (current)

Lab Researchers - Past

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 Projects

Julie HERMAN, Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM)
John HOENIG, Striped Bass Assessment & Disease Research Program
Rom LIPCIUS, Marine Conservation Ecology Lab
Molly MITCHELL, CCRM
Kevin WENG, Fisheries Science

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
Veronica BERROCAL, Professor, UCal Irvine
Ed BOONE, Professor, VA Commonwealth U
Kevin BOSWELL, Associate Professor, Florida International U
Josh BOWDEN, Research Engineer, INRIA
Lelys BRAVO, Clinical Associate Professor, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jeff BUCKEL, Professor, North Carolina State U
Matt CATALANO, Associate Professor, Auburn U
Steve CRIMP, Deputy Head of Climate, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions (ICEDS)
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
Nicholas ERSKINE, former Honours Student, ANU
Megan EVANS, Lecturer^#, University of New South Wales Canberra
Mark HOWDEN, Director and Professor, ANU ICEDS
Challen HYMAN, Postdoctoral Fellow, U of S Florida
Swen KUH
- until mid-August, 2021: PhD Student, ANU
- since mid-August, 2021: Level B^# Research Fellow (until May 2023) and Teaching Associate (since April 2023), Monash University; Level B^# Research Fellow, University of Adelaide (since May 2023)
  - working on research led by Andrew Gelman, Lauren Kennedy, and Qixuan Chen
Mike MCLEISH, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Steve MIDWAY, Associate Professor, Lousiana State U
Joe MILLER, Executive Secretary, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Steve MURAWSKI, Professor, U of South Florida
Nicole PHILLIPS, Associate Professor, U of Southern Mississippi
Elena NAUMOVA, Professor, Tufts U
Monica PIRANI, Lecturer^#, Imperial College London
Sean POWERS, Professor, U of South Alabama
Jay ROOKER, Professor, Texas A&M U @ Galveston
Kayla RUTHERFORD
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, Southern Methodist University
Greg STUNZ, Professor, Texas A&M U @ Corpus Christi
Ted SWITZER, Research Scientist, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Shawn TREIER, Senior Lecturer^#, ANU
Lynn WATERHOUSE, Assistant Unit Leader, Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (U Minnesota)
David WELLS, Professor, Texas A&M U @ Galveston
Anton WESTVELD, Senior Lecturer^#, ANU
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.}