Grants

2017-18 Co-Investigator. Investigation and Treatment of Respiratory Disease in California Sea Lions under Rehabilitation. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) John H. Prescott MarineMammal Rescue Grant (Grant ID NA17NMF4390107) $96,270.

2016-17 Fellow. Host and environmental factors driving hookworm mortality in an isolated fur seal population. Morris Animal Foundation fellowship. Grant ID D16ZO-413. $99,000

2016 Principal Investigator. The chicken or the egg: is the immune response of South American fur seal pups the cause or the consequence of parasitic burden?. Granted by The Society for Marine Mammalogy, Small Grant in Aid of Research. $1,500

2016 Co-Investigator: The sources and impact of macro/micro plastics on Chilean Patagonia South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis). Granted by The Rufford Foundation, grant N° 18815-1. $8,000

2015 Principal Investigator. Surviving in Isolation: Are the Chilean Patagonia South American fur seals doomed to succumb to parasitic infections?. Granted by The Society for Marine Mammalogy, small grant in aid of research.

2014 Principal Investigator: The Immune response of fur seal pups to hookworm infection. Small grant by Sigma Xi Scientific Society, grant N° G20141015718834.

2014 Principal Investigator: The effect of females’ diet on the immune response of South American fur seal pups. Granted by the Tinker foundation and the UGA LACSI.

2013-2014 Principal Investigator: Invasive species at Guafo Island: parasitic diversity, density and distribution. Granted by The Rufford Foundation, grant N° 13225-1.

2012 Collaborator in extension project: “Avoiding the propagation of exotic species; helps to the conservation of the biodiversity of southern Chile” Granted by direction of extension Universidad Austral de Chile.

2012-2013 Co-Investigator: “Rats in oceanic Islands; their impact on marine mammals and sea birds”. Granted by Research and Development Direction, Universidad Austral de Chile, Grant N° SE-2012-53

2012 Principal investigator: "Ecological impacts of rats (Rattus sp.) on populations of marine otters (Lontra felina), South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis), sooty shearwater (Puffinus griseus) and magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) at Guafo Island." Granted by The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (Grant N°11051926).

2011 Principal investigator: “Rats in Guafo Island: their impact on marine mammals conservation”. Granted by The Society for Marine Mammalogy, small grant in aid of research.