Honors & Awards

2022-24 Margaret Davidson Fellowship Grant ($120K), NOAA Office of Coastal Management; ID: NA22NOS4200052)

2023 Lynker Gives Back Program ($600), Donation to support undergraduate research assistants travel

2021 Research Grant ($2,500), Explorer’s Club Southern Florida Chapter

2025-26 Science Policy Fellowship ($74K), National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine 

2025 Spring Dissertation Completion Award ($10K), Office of Graduate Studies, University of South Florida

2024-25 McKnight Dissertation Fellowship ($13K), Florida Education Fund (FEF)

2022-24 Margaret A. Davidson (MAD) Fellowship ($64K), NOAA Office of Coastal Management

2021-24 Dorothy L. Morgan Endowed Scholarship in Marine Science ($8K), Women in Leadership and Philanthropy, University of South Florida (USF) Foundation

2021 Norman Blake Endowed Memorial Fellowship in Marine Science ($10K), USF College of Marine Science (CMS) Endowed Fellowship 

2017-21  Alfred P. Sloan Scholar ($40K), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation     

2025 Inaugural Ansley Abraham Outstanding Sloan Scholar Graduate Award ($2K), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

2022 Vembu Subramanian MSAC Award ($1K), USF-CMS Marine Science Advisory Committee   

2023 Networking Award, NOAA Office of Coastal Management, Margaret A. Davidson (MAD) Values Awards

2023 Mentoring Award, NOAA Office of Coastal Management MAD Values Awards

2025 Regional Resilience Summit Scholarship, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council ($600)

2023 1st place Best Graduate Presentation, International Cassiopea Workshop             

2023 nternational Conference Student Travel Award, University of South Florida  ($1K)

2012, 13, 14, 17, 18, 23 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Multicultural Program (ASLOMP) Travel  Award, (~$5K US conferences, $10K international conference). Hampton University and National Science Foundation. 

2015, 19, 22 Alumni Mentor Travel Award ($2K/year), Ecological Society of America Strategies of Ecology  Education, Diversity and Sustainability (SEEDS) program. 

2019 Best Poster presentation, USF College of Public Health Genomics of Global and Planetary Health 

2019 2nd Place Oral Presentation ($50), USF-CMS Graduate Student Symposium