ESTDatS People

Lab Director

• Grace CHIU

Lab Assistant

• Madison GRIFFIN
  VIMS PhD Student (Fall 2023 - present)
  

Lab Researchers - Current

• Madison GRIFFIN
  ESTDatS RA (Aug 2023), VIMS By-pass Student (Fall 2023 - present)

Lab Researchers - Past

• Aileen MCDONALD
  ESTDatS RA (joint in Mary Fabrizio's lab, Jun-Aug 2025), VIMS ESTDatS By-pass Student (Fall 2025 - Spring 2026)
• Mahshid AHMADIAN (2022-2026)
  VIMS Affiliate and VCU PhD Student, 2023 VA Sea Grant Graduate Fellow
• 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, Community Ecology and Marine Conservation Biology Lab
• Roger MANN, Molluscan Ecology Program
• Molly MITCHELL, CCRM
• Dave PARRISH, CBNERR
• Natalia SCHOENBERG, Community Ecology and Marine Conservation Biology Lab
• Erin SHIELDS, CBNERR
• Rochelle SEITZ, Community Ecology and Marine Conservation Biology Lab
• Missy SOUTHWORTH, Molluscan Ecology Program
• Kevin WENG, Natural Resources

External Collaborators on Current Projects

• Mona AHMADIANI, Research Assistant Professor, Texas A&M U
• Mark ALBINS, Research Associate and Instructor, U of South Alabama
• Caleb BAKER, Product Manager, Capital One
• Taylor Beyea, Senior Marine Ecologist, LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc.
• Ed BOONE, Professor, VA Commonwealth U
• Kevin BOSWELL, Professor, Florida International U
• Josh BOWDEN, Research Software Engineer, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation
• Mark DAWKINS, Analyst, Zen Energy
• Adrian DOBRA, Professor, U of Washington Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
• Todd GEDAMKE, MER Consultants LLC
• Challen HYMAN, Associate Research Scientist, U of S Florida
• Darren IRELAND, Vice-President, LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc.
• Swen KUH, Senior Research Officer, Australian Institute of Family Studies 
• Alan KUHNLE, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M U
• Peter MUDRAK, Senior Fisheries Biologist, LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc.
• Lewis C. NAISBETT-JONES, Senior Fisheries Biologist, LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc.
• Sean POWERS, Professor, U of South Alabama
• Nathan PUTMAN, Senior Scientist, LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc.
• Scott RABORN, Vice-President, LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc.
• Kayla RUTHERFORD, Owner, Enchanted Realms Co.
• Brad SHERMAN, Adjunct Associate Professor^#, U of Canberra Institute of Applied Ecology
• Lynne STOKES, Professor Emeritus, Southern Methodist University
• Anton WESTVELD, Senior Lecturer^#, ANU
• Allison WHITE, Marine Fisheries Scientist, NOAA Fisheries
• Richard WOODWARD, Professor, Texas A&M U
• 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.}