SUCCESSFULLY FUNDED:

2022              Leadership for Climate-Resilient Fisheries Fellowship, Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) and Environmental Defense
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2019              Graduate Student Transportation Grant, The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill ($1,000)

2019              Student Travel Award, The Graduate and Professional Student Federation, UNC-Chapel Hill ($600, declined)

2019              Rufford Small Grant, Rufford Foundation ($6,400) (Project description here)

2018              Early Career Grant, National Geographic Society ($5,000) (Bio here; project updates here)

2018              Mingma Norbu Sherpa Memorial Fellowship, Carolina Center for Public Service, UNC-Chapel Hill ($1,250)

2018              Marine Conservation Research Grant, Women Diver’s Hall of Fame ($2,000)

2017              Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), National Science Foundation ($138,000 for 3 yrs)

2017              Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill ($2,000)

2013              President’s Sustainability Grant, Connecticut College ($4,000)
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2012              Travel Grant for Student Researchers, Connecticut College ($500)

NOT FUNDED:
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2020              Dissertation Completion Fellowship, The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill ($18,000 for 9 mo.)

2020              John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, NOAA and North Carolina Sea Grant

2018              Rapid Ocean Conservation (ROC) Grant, Waitt Foundation ($10,000)

2018              Graduate Student Research Fellowship Award, Society for Conservation Biology (SCB, $1,000)

2018              Pre-Dissertation Field Research Grant, Institute for the Study of the Americas, UNC-Chapel Hill ($3,000)

2018              PADI Foundation Scholarship, PADI Foundation ($6,000)

2017              Exploration Fund Grant, The Explorer's Club ($2,500)

2017              Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) Program, Sigma Xi ($1,000)

2017              Conservation Small-Grants Program, Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Marine Section ($500)

2017              ASLO Global Outreach Initiative, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO, $2,500)

2016              Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), National Science Foundation ($138,000 for 3 yrs)

2015              Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 10-week Graduate Student Fellowship ($7,000)

2015              Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), National Science Foundation ($138,000 for 3 yrs)