Awards & Honors (Autumn 21 / Winter 22)
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
Hannah Bassett (PhD, Hilborn) netted the best student paper award at the MARE Center for Maritime Research conference for her paper, “A comparative study of smallscale fishery supply chains’ vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19.”
Rachel Fricke (PhD, Olden) obtained the College of the Environment Integral Environmental Big Data Research Fund Award for her project,“Emerging technologies to assess human benefits from and risks to water resources.”
Maria Kuruvilla (PhD QERM, Berdahl) received a Wild Fish For All Scholarship from the Native Fish Society.
Natalie Mastick (PhD, Wood) gave the best student oral presentation at the Pacific Fisheries Technologists 72nd Annual Conference for her paper, “Detecting change in anisakids using archival canned salmon.”
Anne Polyakov (PhD QERM, Berdahl) received a Hall Conservation Genetics Research Fund for her project, “Characterizing genetically distinct ectomycorrhizal fungal communities adapted to a natural nitrogen gradient along salmon streams.” She also received a Stuntz Mycology Grant from the Stuntz Foundation and the Forest Fungal Ecology Research Award from the Mycological Society of America.
Souta (Bill) Saechao (undergraduate) was awarded a Clarence H. Campbell Endowed Lauren Donaldson Scholarship from the College of the Environment.
Anna Simeon (PhD, Hauser) obtained a research grant from the Save Our Seas Foundation.
Faculty and Staff
Tim Essington was elected as a Fellow of the American Fisheries Society.
Jason Toft helped organize the 2021 Nearshore Restoration Summit, which won the Washington Department of Fisheries and Wildlife’s Steve Phelps Leadership in Science Award. This award recognizes the challenge of science communication and the value of a robust dialogue to achieve conservation outcomes. Jason’s lab was also selected as a 2021 UW Lab Safety Innovator.
Chelsea Wood won a NSF CAREER Award.