Grants and awards
CURRENT GRANTS
UCOP Climate Action 2023-2025
“Increasing publicly available tools for climate-smart seed sourcing
and forest restoration” ($904,252, including UC Davis sub-award)
UCM Academic Senate COR Award 2023-2024
“The genetics of climate responses in Abies religiosa – a vital
species for Monarch butterfly conservation.”($7,381)
NSF, DEB 2022-2026
“Collaborative research: Continent-wide forest recruitment change:
the interactions between climate, habitat, and consumers” ($287,115
to UC Merced, $1.1 million total)
NSF, DEB, Integrative Organismal Systems Cluster 2019-2024
“The risks of safety: xylem anatomy and tradeoffs between reproduction, growth, and drought survival in Sierra Nevada conifers” ($417,579 including sub-award to UC Santa Cruz, Jarmila Pittermann co-PI)
USDA AFRI seed grant 2020-2023
“Does source climate or genotype better predict early pine seedling performance in restoration projects” ($199,988 including Forest Service sub-award, Jessica Wright co-PI)
USDA Forest Service 2020-2023
“Moving towards genome informed seed transfer in Region 5” (EVM co-PI; Jessica Wright PI; $199,996)
PAST GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
NSF EAGER, DEB, Population & Community Ecology 2018-2020“How important are eco-evolutionary interactions for understanding forest responses to environmental change” ($199,996)
Sequoia (National Park) Science Learning Center 2018-2020
“Forests in a warmer future: the role of variation in climate responses within and between Sierra Nevada tree species” ($5,000 + $3998)
(Plant Science Center, Switzerland; € 89,900)
NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010-2012
Association for Women in Science Amy Lutz award 2009-2010
(for female scientists completing Ph.D; $1000)
Duke CTMS Graduate Fellowship 2009-2010
(Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences; $22,000 + tuition)
XSEDE 2019-2020
"Association genetics of drought tolerance in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)" (Awarded resources PSC Large Memory (Bridges Large), 30,000 Memory Hours, and PSC Storage (Bridges Pylon) 4,000 GB; estimated $20,340 value)
Western North American Naturalist Symposium Funding 2019
“Climate change and the ecology of Sierra Nevada forests” ($5,000)
Hellman Faculty Fellows Fund 2016-2017
“The influence of competition and genetic variation on climate responses in Sierra Nevada pine seedlings”($6,192)
UCM Academic Senate COR award 2016-2017
“Identifying the genetic basis of drought tolerance in ponderosa pine”($4,993)
Plant Fellows Award 2013-2014