National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $29,671, 3 Year Award: “Catching the ‘Second Wave’ of the Ediacara Biota: Assessing the Role of Environment, Ecology and Diagenesis,” 2014-2017.
National Science Foundation, EAR–Geomorphology, Principal Investigator, $159,070, 3 Year Award: ” Collaborative research: Laboratory and numerical experiments on the response of wave ripples to changes in oscillatory flow,” 2012–2015.
National Science Foundation, Geology and Paleontology Division, Principal Investigator, $59,985, 3 Year Award: “Collaborative research: Testing Himalayan tectonic and erosional history via chronostratigraphic correlation between the Lesser Himalaya and Indian craton,” 2011–2014.
National Science Foundation, R.U.I. Geology and Paleontology Division, Principal Investigator, $121,396, 3 Year Award: ” Collaborative Research: Stratigraphic test of the tectonic assembly of equatorial peri-Gondwanaland: A Himalayan perspective”, 2006–2009.
National Science Foundation, R.U.I. Geology and Paleontology Division, Principal Investigator, $53,987, 2 Year Award: ” Collaborative Research: High-Density Combined Flows and Bedforms”, 2003–2005.
National Science Foundation, R.U.I. Paleontology/Stratigraphy Research Grant, Principal Investigator, $114,987, 3 Year Award: ” Collaborative Research: The Neoproterozoic and Cambrian of the Tethyan Himalaya: a Test of Core Gondwanan Construction”, 2000–2003.
[Informal Co-Investigator] National Science Foundation, Structure and Tectonics Research Grant, $280,260, 3 Year Award: “Structure and Sedimentology of the Beardmore Group, Antarctica: Latest Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic Tectonic Evolution of the East Antarctic Margin”, PI Dr. John Goodge, SMU, 1998–2001.
National Science Foundation, R.U.I. Paleontology/Stratigraphy Research Grant, Principal Investigator, $71,200, 3 Year Award: “Collaborative Research: Integrated Stratigraphic Study of Cambrian–Ordovician Inner Shelf Facies of the Western United States”, 1999-2002.
National Science Foundation, R.U.I. Paleontology/Stratigraphy Research Grant, Principal Investigator, $90,800, 2 Year Award (extended to 3 yrs): “Integrated Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Analysis of the Cambro-Ordovician Inner Shelf, Colorado”, 1995-1998.
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, $24,450 two-year award: “Cambrian Tidal Sand Waves: Geometry, Sediment Dynamics and Reservoir Potential”, 1994–1996.
Union Pacific Resources Company, $2,100: “Cambrian Tidal Sandwaves”, 1994.
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, $18,000 two-year award: “Sedimentology of the Lower Paleozoic of Central Colorado”, 1990–1993.
National Science Foundation, E.A.R., Paleontology/Stratigraphy Research Grant, Co-Investigator, $90,000, 3 Year Award: “Basin Evolution and Biostratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Cambrian, Avalonian North America”. Principal Investigator Ed Landing, New York State Paleontologist, New York State Survey, 1989-1991.