Awards & Honors (Spring / Summer 21)
Each year, our students, faculty, and staff win regional, national, and international awards. Please join us in congratulating this year’s group of award winners!
Students
Degree track and faculty advisers in parenthesis
Grant Adams (PhD, Punt) netted a NMFS Sea Grant Joint Fellowship in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics.
Elieen Bates (PhD, Padilla-Gamiño) received a scholarship from Next Swell.
Abby Bratt (PhD, Converse) obtained a Northwest Climate Adaption Science Center 2021–2022 Fellowship.
Ruth Drinkwater (BS), Josef Mayor (BS), Kerry Accola (MS, Horne), Stephanie Thurner (MS, Branch), Sean Rohan (PhD, Essington), and Yaaamini Venkataraman (PhD, Roberts) were given SAFS Faculty Merit Awards for 2021. This award recognizes outstanding efforts by students who have achieved high scholastic standing in the program.
Jessica Diallo (MS, Olden) received a Small Project Grant from the American Fisheries Society – Western Division, a Conservation Grant from the Desert Fishes Council, and a Conservation Research Grant from the North American Native Fishes Association
Rachel Fricke (MS, Olden) obtained a fellowship from the Washington American Water Resources Association and scholarships supported by the College of the Environment Integral Environmental Big Data Research Fund, the Society for Freshwater Science, and the Washington Lake Protection Association.
Chris Mantegna (PhD, Roberts) and Terrance Wang (MS, Hilborn/Punt) received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Ana Olsen (BS) netted a Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship from NOAA.
Anna Polyakov (PhD, Berdahl) obtained a Hall Conservation Genetics Research Fund Award, a grant from the Stuntz Mycology Fund, and the Forest Fungal Ecology Research Award from the Mycological Society of America.
Hannah Sipe (PhD, Converse) obtained the best student talk award at the Marianas Terrestrial Conservation Conference for her presentation, “Paradise sought: the collaborative path to restoring Guam’s vertebrates.”
Ashley Townes (PhD, Schindler) received the spring 2021 SAFS DEIJ and Community Service Award.
Yaamini Venkataraman (PhD, Roberts), Jennifer Gardner (MS, Tornabene), and Kristin Priviteria-Johnson (PhD, Punt) obtained a Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant sponsored by the UW Vice President for Minority Affairs and Diversity and the University Diversity Officer to support their Spring 2021 offering of the class, “Dark Side of Hot Topics: The Settler–Colonial and White Supremacist History of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.”
Faculty, staff, and postdoctoral scholars
Tim Essington obtained the 2020–21 College of the Environment Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award.
Eleni Petrou and Jennifer Gosselin received the 2020–21 College of the Environment Outstanding Diversity Commitment Award, which recognizes outstanding leadership and innovative approaches to diversity and inclusion efforts.
Jackie Padilla-Gamiño obtained an NSF CAREER award.
John Wittouck and Carita Pascal received the 2020 SAFS Staff Award.
Dan DiNicola netted the Best Film and the Audience Choice Award for his film “Just Keep Swimming” from Western Division of the American Fisheries Society film festival in May 2021.