Fellows

The Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship is an exciting two-year fellowship program that provides the opportunity for graduate students to conduct collaborative research at one of the 30 national estuarine research reserves, including SINERR.

Ember Crutchfield 2024 - 2026

School: Georgia Southern University

Project (M.S.): Effects of Saltwater Intrusion on Mature Pinus taeda Health and Water Use in Barrier Island Maritime Forests

Will Atencio 2022 - 2024

School: Georgia Southern University

Project (M.S): Water Quality, Oyster Demographics, and Disease Dynamics on Sapelo Island, Georgia

A young man holding a a mesh bag of oysters on the edge of a tidal creek.

Sydney Williams 2020 - 2022

School: University of Florida 

Project (PhD): “Quantifying estuarine water quality change and it influence on the relationship between ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) suspension-feeding behavior and phytoplankton community structure in southeastern Atlantic salt marshes.” 

A young woman standing in a salt marsh with her experimental equipment