2011

Co-Investigator.  Integrating global species distributions, remote sensing information and climate station data to assess recent biodiversity response to climate change.  (NASA Climate and Biological Response: Research and Applications program, $1.67mil total budget, ~188K to CU Boulder, full ICR, target start date March 2011)

Colorado PI.  ABI Development: Collaborative Research: VertNet, a New Model for Biodiversity Networks.   (NSF Advances in Biological Informatics program, ~$2.4 mil. Total budget, $338K to CU Boulder, full ICR, target start date May, 2011)

Co-PI.   Year 4 Development of data and applications for the national marine theme of NBII (OBIS-USA) (PI Philip Goldstein, USGS NBII, $288,000 budget, 17.5% ICR under a CESU, 1 year, start date Sept. 1, 2011)

Co-PI.  MRI: Acquisition of a Scalable Petascale Storage Infrastructure for Data-Collections and Data-Intensive Discovery.  (PI Thomas Hauser, NSF MRI, $699,945, full ICR; start date: Sept. 1, 2011)

2010

PI.  GBIF White Paper for enhancing 'fitness-for-use' of primary biodiversity data.  (Co-PI Andrew Hill, $7200 contract, no ICR).

PI.  Dissertation Research: Climatic constraints on American pika distribution and abundance.  (NSF DDIG grant, Co-PI Liesl Peterson, , $14,973, no ICR, target start data May 1, 2010).

Colorado PI.   Collaborative Research:  Map of Life: An infrastructure for integrating global species distribution knowledge.   (NSF Advances  in Biological Informatics program, 990K dollar budget, $459K to University of Colorado, 3 years, full ICR, target start date:  May 1, 2010).

Colorado PI.  Collaborative Research:  BiSciCol toolkit:  Towards a tagging and tracking infrastructure for biodiversity science collections.  (NSF Biological Research Collections grant, ~$1.8 million total budget, $210,000 to CU Boulder, full ICR, target start date, Sept. 1, 2009)

PI.  Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) monitoring within the State of Colorado.  (Bureau of Land Management, $10,000 total budget to CU Boulder, Co-PI Melissa Reed-Eckert,  26% ICR, target start date Sept. 1, 2010)

Co-PI.   Year 3 Development of data and applications for the national marine theme of NBII (OBIS-USA) (PI Philip Goldstein, USGS NBII, $240K budget, 17.5% ICR under a CESU, 1 year, start date Sept. 1, 2010)

PI.  Determination of Species Status of Terrestrial Slugs, Deroceras. (Barry Roth Co-Investigator, Bureau of Land Management, $13,000 total budget with $7500 for CU, 10% ICR, target start date March 1, 2011)

2009 

Co-Investigator.  BioSynC working group: Integrating and refining the global knowledgebase of species distributions – data, tools, applications.  (Co-Investigator with Walter Jetz (UCSD), Encyclopedia of Life/BioSynC working group proposal, no indirect cost returns (ICR), 2 years, travel budget for 1-3 meetings, total budget to not exceed $60K)

PI. CU Boulder Outreach Grant for Evolution: Here and Now: a Traveling Exhibition from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. ($4800 for 2009-2010).

PI.  Year 2 continued development of the data component for the national marine theme of NBII (OBIS-USA) (Co-PI Philip Goldstein, USGS NBII, $215,000 budget, 17.5% ICR under a CESU, 1 year, start date Sept. 1, 2009)

PI.  An informatics approach for near real-time monitoring of evolutionary trends in biological systems.  (NSF EAGER proposal to Advances in Biological Informatics program, $75,763 budget, 1 year, full ICR, start date: September 1, 2009).

Co-PI.   Integrating datasets to investigate megafauna extinctions in the Late Quaternary.  (Co-PI with Alan Cooper and Jessica Metcalf (University  of Adelaide) to NESCent, no indirect cost returns, 2 years, travel budget for 3 meetings, total budget ~50K)

Co-PI.  What aspects of the environment do organisms care about?  (with a substantial data product for the community).  (Co-PI with Brian McGill (U. Arizona), Walter Jetz (Yale Univ.), Jana McPherson (Dalhousie Univ) to NCEAS, no indirect cost returns, 2 years, travel budget for 3 meetings, total budget ~50K

2008

Colorado PI and Co-PI.  A system for increasing the georeferencing quantity and quality of all GBIF-mediated occurrence records.  (18 month GBIF contract, Reed Beaman, PI; Aimee Stewart, Co-PI; Robert Guralnick Co-PI; Paul Flemons Co-PI; ~$67,914 total with 5% ICR, $35,127 for CU Boulder, start date:  4/15/2008). 

PI.  Furthering the development of the data component for the national marine theme of NBII (OBIS-USA) (Co-PI Philip Goldstein, USGS NBII, $150,000 budget, 17.5% ICR under a CESU, 1 year, start date 7/15/08).

PI.  Testing climate-related models of range contraction for the American pika. (Co-PIs Chris Ray and Liesl Peterson.  12 month National Geographic Research and Exploration grant, $25,462, no ICR, likely start date: 8/1/2008). 

2007

Co-PI : A Multi-Species Study of Grasshopper Phenology, distribution and body size responses to climate changes in the Front Range of Colorado (PI Nufio, Co-PI Bowers;  NSF Ecology $397K budget, 5 years, full ICR, start date, September 1, 2007)

 Co-Investigator:  Information System (OBIS) to Support the Census of Marine Life (CoML) (PI John Kineman, USGS, $30K budget, 17.5% ICR, 6 months, 7/01/07-12/31/07)

2006

Co-PI:  Spatial Analysis and Modeling Plug-in Services Development for the New GBIF Portal (9 month GBIF contract; David Neufeld, PI; Robert Guralnick, Co-PI; ~$25,000 with 15% ICR)

Colorado PI: A Field Guide of Freswater Molluscs of Colorado (9 month CDOW contract, Mardy Nelson Co-PI, $12,600, 10% ICR).