Grants

2022 to 2025
NSF-IOS
IntBIO Collaborative Research: An integrative approach for projecting insect responses to a rapidly changing climate
$803,034
2128241
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Distribution and Phenology, Experimental Thermal Ecology, Trait-based Research, Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science

2021 to 2023
USGS Midwest Climate Science Center
Evaluating the role of climate on Midwestern butterfly trajectories, monarch declines and the broader “insect apocalypse"
$255,136
G21AC10369
Co-Principal Investigator
Research Area: Distribution and Phenology, Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science

2020 to 2024
NSF-IIBR
Name IIBR Informatics: A Generalized Modeling Framework for Integrating Multi-Species Data Sources to Estimate Biodiversity Processes
$54,614
1954406
Senior Personnel
Research Area: Distribution and Phenology, Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science

2020 to 2022
NSF
MSA: Modeling and Forecasting Shifts in Migratory Patterns Under Changing Hadley Circulation Dynamics
$299,763
DEB-2017791
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Distribution and Phenology

2018 to 2021
NSF
EAGER: Environmental drivers of biodiversity: leveraging a history of NSF-funded research to test models of butterfly responses to global change
$299,989
1839021
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Experimental Thermal Ecology

2018 to 2019
NSF
Collaborative Proposal: RAPID: How do extreme flooding events impact migratory species?
$55,021
EF-1818934
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Distribution and Phenology, Monarch Ecology and Conservation

2017 to 2021
National Science Foundation - Macroecology
Collaborative Proposal: MSB-FRA: Causes, consequences, and cross-scale linkages of climate-driven phenological mismatch across three trophic levels
$330,658
NSF EF-1702664
Co-Principal Investigator
Research Area: Distribution and Phenology

2017 to 2019
National Science Foundation - Macroecology
Collaborative Proposal: MSB-ECA: A multi-scale framework to quantify and forecast population changes and associated uncertainties
$94,437
NSF EF-1702179
Co-Principal Investigator
Research Area: Monarch Ecology and Conservation

2017 to 2018
Georgetown University - Georgetown Environment Initiative and Massive Data Institute
Cyber-infrastructure to support environmental research at Georgetown
$30,000
No award number
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science, Other

2017 to 2018
National Science Foundation
ABI Development: Access, visualization and statistical tools for the analysis of butterfly monitoring data
$177,315
DBI-1738243
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science

2016 to 2020
National Science Foundation
ButterflyNet--an integrative framework for comparative biology
$235,508
GoLife: 1541557
Senior Personnel
Research Area: Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science

2016
Georgetown Environment Initiative Impact Grant
Climate hindcasting and forecasting: building infrastructure to make rigorous predictions about how systems will respond to global climate change
$53,000
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Experimental Thermal Ecology

2015 to 2016
United States Geological Survey
Building historical databases for butterfly monitoring to support research on monarch population trends and other butterfly pollinators
$79,501
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science

2015
Graduate College Infrastructure Grant
Acquisition of Controlled-environment Growth Chambers
$45,000
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Experimental Thermal Ecology

2012 to 2016
National Science Foundation
ABI Development: Access, visualization and statistical tools for the analysis of butterfly monitoring data
$1,134,740
DBI-1147049
Principal Investigator
Research Area: Butterfly Informatics and Citizen Science