Awards
Celebrating achievements in research, teaching, and student development at SilvaLab.
Dr. Carlos Alberto Silva — Awards and honors
CALS Innovation in Teaching Award
University of Florida, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Large Grant Leadership Award
UF/IFAS Research; recognized for 2024
UF Global Fellow Program
Selected as a Global Fellow, University of Florida
Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
University of Florida
Richard Jones Outstanding New Faculty Research Award
University of Florida
Forestry Club Teacher of the Year Award
SFFGS, University of Florida
Thomas Hilker Early Career Scientist Award
ForestSAT
College of Natural Resources Outstanding Ph.D. Student
University of Idaho
Outstanding Graduate, Ph.D. — Natural Resources and Society
College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho
Third Place, Oral Presentation
36th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing — Individual tree detection from LiDAR-derived canopy height models in longleaf pine forest
Student awards and fellowships
Recognition received by SilvaLab students and former students.
Monique Bohora Schlickmann
Doris and Earl Lower and Verna Lowe Scholarship — UF/IFAS CALS (fall)
Kody Brock
Graduate Scholarship — UF/IFAS CALS; selected for NASA DEVELOP at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (summer)
Jinyi Xia
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award — SFFGS (spring)
Monique Bohora Schlickmann
UF Latin American–Caribbean Scholarship; UF Grinter Fellowship; selected for the International Summer School on Radar/SAR (spring)
Diego Rocha
Best Poster Award — FRC & GEM Graduate Student Symposium; Spectral Ecology Summer School Fellowship — Michigan State University; UF Latin American–Caribbean Scholarship (spring)
Diego Rocha
UF Latin American–Caribbean Scholarship (fall)
Monique Bohora Schlickmann
Graduate Scholarship — UF/IFAS CALS; UF Latin American–Caribbean Scholarship (fall)
Jinyi Xia
Ph.D. Scholarship — Forest Biology Research Cooperative, SFFGS/FRC (fall)
Rodrigo Leite
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (fall)
Visiting scholar scholarships
Scholarships supporting research visits by students and scholars at SilvaLab.
Zhou Mengli
China Scholarship Council scholarship for a two-year internship at SilvaLab (fall)
Ana Paula Dalla Corte
Federal University of Paraná scholarship for a ten-month internship at SilvaLab (fall)
Allan Sulato de Andrade
CNPq scholarship for a ten-month internship at SilvaLab (fall)
Caio Hamamura
Federal Institute of São Paulo scholarship for a one-year internship at SilvaLab (fall)
Gabriel Maximo da Silva
Scholarship for an eight-month internship at SilvaLab (spring)
Fernando Victor Lima Gomes
Scholarship for a six-month internship at SilvaLab (spring)
Mauro Alessandro Karasinski
Scholarship for a one-year internship at SilvaLab (fall)
Luiz Guilherme Almeida Nogueira
Scholarship for a six-month internship at SilvaLab (fall)
Danilo Romeu Farias de Souza
Scholarship for a six-month internship at SilvaLab (fall)
Rodrigo Leite
Scholarship for a one-year internship at SilvaLab; USDA Forest Service grant to attend the 9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress (fall)
