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.}