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Academic Grants (Funded)

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  • 2023-24: Iowa State University Postdoctoral Seed Grant: Evaluating the carbon cycling variability in lake system under extreme human perturbations. ($2260)

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  • 2023-24: Geology Undergraduate Research Grants (GeoURG), Iowa State University. Project: Impacts of urban development in lake sediment chemistry through time ($2235) 

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  • 2021-2023: NSF-MRI for Atomic Force Microscopy: A Versatile Equipment for Diverse Research Interests; CO-PI; Lead PI: Michael Mann, University of North Dakota, $252,841 (Link)

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  • 2021: NSF-TCUP: Testing a novel proxy to reconstruct methane flux intensity from sediment records (PI), recommended for funding; withdrawn as the PI moved to a new institution and position, $162,393 (Panel Review)

 

  • 2021 - 2022: Intertribal Research and Resource Center, UTTC; Evaluating the Methane Dynamics in Regional Lakes Systems (PI); ($21,390) (Award Letter)

 

  • 2020 - 2021: ND EPSCoR STEM – Equipment Award; Heat Flow Meter (HFM) for Research, Teaching, and Outreach Activities in Tribal Colleges in North Dakota (CO-PI; Lead PI Gurjot Dhaliwal) ($26,130)

 

  • 2020: American Association of Geographers (AAG); Bridging the Digital COVID-19 Divide: faculty funding for Geography education ($10,000) 

​Grants as a Graduate Researcher:

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  • 2018: Graduate Research Grant from the Geological Society of America (GSA) 

Project: Evaluating the temporal frequency of hydrocarbon seeps at Campeche Basin ($1900) (Proposal link)        

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  • 2018: Graduate Research Grant by the American Association of Petroleum Geologist (AAPG)

Project: Understanding C-S coupling at hydrocarbon seeps of of Mexico: ) (Proposal Link)

 

  • 2017: Student Endowment Internship Fund by TAMUCC

For initiating laboratory collaboration with UC-Riverside (Link)

 

  • 2015: Graduate Research Grant, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Society (GCAGS)

Project: Hydrocarbon Source Evaluation at Cold Seeps in Southern Gulf of Mexico) (Proposal Link)

 

  • 2015: Graduate Research Grant, College of Graduate Studies, TAMUCC

Project: Hydrocarbon Source Evaluation at Cold Seeps in Southern Gulf of Mexico)

Organized Desk

Proposals Developed (Not Funded/In Waitlist)

  • Unraveling the Microbial Methane Cycling at Marine Methane Seep Sediments Through a Novel High Spatial Resolution Approach (2021); Prepared with Dr. Jeffrey Marlow (Boston University) for Simons Marine Microbial Ecology Grant.  

  • Archaeal Methane Flux Index: A Novel Approach to Quantify Past Methane Flux Intensity Using Molecular Fossil Records (2020); Prepared with Prof. Jörn Peckmann and Dr. Daniel Birgel (University of Hamburg); DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service short term research grant.

  • Geobiology at Ultra-High Resolution: A Novel Approach to Methane Flux Reconstructions in Ancient Environments; Prepared with Prof. Tim Lyons (UCR) for Agouron Geobiology Fellowship

  • Evaluating the Temporal Frequencies of Hydrocarbon Seeps in the Gulf of Mexico (2018) Prepared for Texas Sea Grant Graduate Fund

  • Identifying a Reliable Proxy to Evaluate Present and Past Subsurface Methane Fluxes (2018); Prepared for International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Schlanger Fellowship

  • Slope failure and stability of the Cenozoic western Atlantic: Causes and history (SASCWATCH) (2017) (CO-PI; Lead PI: Chris Lowrey, UT); IODP Drilling Pre-Proposal #922

  • Revisiting the Mesozoic to Pleistocene in the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico (2017) (CO-PI; Lead PI: Chris Lowrey, UT); IODP Drilling Pre-Proposal #917

  • Evaluating the Contribution of Methane Fluxes to Regional Oceanic Carbon (2017); Prepared with Dr. Richard Coffin; Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) Sample Acquisition (Link)

  • Understanding the sedimentary imprints of methane seepages (2016); Prepared with Dr. Gerald Dickens (Rice University) to sail for IODP Leg 372 (Application selected by USSP, waitlisted by JRSO)

“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures” – Vincent Van Gogh
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