Incoming PhD student Grace Westphal, co-supervised by Dr. Tara Stewart-Merrill, was a awarded a prestigious FSU Legacy Fellowship that will carry her through five years at FSU!

Post-Doc Dr. Diana P. López was awarded a Provost’s Post Doctoral Fellowship at FSU, that will provide two more years of salary and research funds to continue her work at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

PI Okamoto was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to work on abalone management plans in Haida Gwaii that consider climate change, predator recovery, and Indigenous harvests.