Award Recipient

2022

Marine Conservation Graduate Scholarship, Sponsored by the Women Divers Hall of Fame

Jordan Sims

Jordan is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University in Virginia, working in the Salerno Lab of Integrative Microbial Ecology. Her research centers on investigating the microbial drivers of coral settlement and diseaseon the reefs of Roatán, Honduras, with a particular interest in how our understanding of these microbial processes may be able to improve coral restoration practices. Jordan will use her scholarship to assess the composition and spatial structure of benthic bacterial communities during coral spawning and relate that information to observed patterns of coral settlement.

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