Graduate student making waves in coastal research

ICS Ph.D. student Shalimar Moreno (above) has also received lots of great news in the past month.

• She has been selected by the Ecological Society of America for the 2023 Graduate Student Policy Award. This award provides graduate students with policy training and the opportunity to meet with congressional policy makers in DC. She will be traveling to DC later this month for the workshops and meetings alongside 14 other students.
• Shalimar was also awarded the International Women's Fishing Association Research Scholarship. This awards grants $3000 for research projects focused on marine science and will help support her field research in Bermuda.
• Finally, Shalimar was also recently awarded a Grant-in-Aid from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) in the amount of ~$4000 to conduct her coral reef research in Bermuda alongside BIOS scientists.