FUNDING

FELLOWSHIPS

• 2010 Juan de la Cierva fellowship of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government (B.O.E. 27-02-2008). Research Centre: Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain. PI: Yurena Yanes; (salary for 3 years paid by Spanish Government) 2010-2013. Completed.
• 2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government (B.O.E. 13-03-2008). Research Centre: Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, USA. PI: Yurena Yanes; (salary for 1 year paid by Spanish Government) 2008-2009. Completed.
• 2001 Graduate student fellowship Formacion de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Spanish Government (B.O.E. 09-01-2001). Research Centre: Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. PI: Yurena Yanes; (stipend for 4 years paid by Spanish Government) 2001-2005. Completed.

RESEARCH GRANTS

• 2018 NSF grant# 1802153 (MG&G: Division of Ocean and Marine Sciences)— Collaborative Research: Seasonal climate change over the last two millennia from archaeological sources in the subtropical eastern North Atlantic region. Lead-PI: Yurena Yanes; $199,999; Awarded.
• 2016 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant# 683018 — Late Glacial and Postglacial Population History and Cultural Transmission in Iberia (c.15,000-8,000 cal BP). PI: Javier Fernandez Lopez-de-Pablos. Subcontract: Yurena Yanes; $30,000; October 2016 – September 2021. In progress.
• 2016 National Geographic Society grant# 9842-16— The stories shells hold: inferring ancient cultural and environmental history from mollusk middens in the Canary Islands. PI: Yurena Yanes; $18,700; May 2016 – April 2017. Completed.
• 2015 NSF grant# 1529133 (EAR: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry)— Collaborative Proposal: Development and calibration of the oxygen isotope systematics of small terrestrial gastropods. Lead-PI: Yurena Yanes; $68,156; September 2015 – August 2019. In progress.
• 2014 UC LEAF Research Grant Seed Award—Relationships between climate change and agriculture development in NW Africa: insights from mollusk shells. PI: Yurena Yanes; $3,000; 2014-2015. Completed.
• 2013 Karl Hirsch Research Grants of the Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS)— Quaternary paleoclimate in the Canary Islands as inferred from the isotopic composition of marine mollusk shells. PI: Yurena Yanes; $1,000; 2013-2014. Completed.
• 2012 Malacological Society of London Research Grant—Holocene shell middens from the Canary Islands as seasonal retrospective environmental archives. PI: Yurena Yanes; ₤1,300; 2012-2013. Completed.
• 2011 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CGL2011-29898/BTE)—Los gasterópodos terrestres de las islas de Fuerteventura y Lanzarote como bioindicadores paleoambientales. (Terrestrial gastropods from Fuerteventura and Lanzarote Islands as environmental bioindicators). PI: Yurena Yanes; 29,040 €; 2011-2013. Completed.
• 2010 Karl Hirsch Research Grants of the Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS)—Pleistocene-Holocene atmospheric conditions in San Salvador Island (Bahamas) inferred from the stable isotopic composition of fossil Cerion shells. PI: Yurena Yanes; $900; 2010-2011. Completed.