NOAA Sea Grant 2026 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship finalists

NOAA Sea Grant · January 2026

Sea Grant Announces 2025–2026 Fellowship Selections

Named one of 48 finalists nationwide — representing 40 universities across 26 states — for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, which places early-career scientists in federal legislative and executive offices to bring scientific and technical expertise to national policymaking.

Virginia Women in High Performance Computing seminar

Virginia Women in High Performance Computing (VA-WHPC) · February 2025

Real Stories about Using HPC in Research

Featured presenter at the VA-WHPC statewide seminar, sharing how I use high-performance computing to process large-scale spatial data and run computationally intensive Bayesian models — alongside speakers from William & Mary and the University of Virginia.

Mahshid Ahmadian — Phi Kappa Phi

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi · January 2025

Elected to Membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Elected to the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, recognizing the top of the graduating class across all fields of study.

Mahshid Ahmadian — Virginia Sea Grant 2023 Graduate Fellow

Virginia Sea Grant · September 2023

2023 Graduate Fellows Announced

Profiled as one of seven Graduate Research Fellows selected across Virginia. The feature highlights my work developing a fish movement modeling tool for fisheries management using acoustic receiver data, in collaboration with marine spatial ecologist Dr. Daniel Crear.

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