| Date | Role | Project | Funding Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2026 | Co-PI | Addressing the Soil-Microbial Gap: Assessment of Microbial-Based Soil Health Indicators and its Efficacy for Broad Deployment across Grasslands PI: Allison Veach |
USDA |
| 2023-2024 | Co-PI | Formalize partnership between four MSIs and the US Fish and Wildlife Service focused on advancing equity in conservation and natural resources educational programs and professions PI: Ambika Mathur; Co-PI: Janis Bush |
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| 2021-2022 | PI | RAPID: Impacts of High Magnitude Wildfire on Volcanic (Lava Tube) Cave Water Chemistry, Nutrient Transport, Activity and Diversity of Cave Microbiome | NSF EAR |
| 2021-2022 | PI | The Effects of Fires on Cave Health in Lava Beds National Monument: A One Health Team Approach | National Park Service |
| 2020-2023 | Co-PI | Signals in the Soil (SitS): Real-Time and Continuous Monitoring of Phosphates in the Soil with Graphene-Based Printed Sensor Arrays collaborative research with Kansas State University, University of Alabama, and University of Sheffields UK |
NSF BIOSENS |
| 2020-2021 | Co-PI | Complete Destruction of Per- and Polyfluoroalkane Substances (PFAS) with Calcium Oxide | Noblis Inc. |
| 2020-2021 | PI | Microbial Sulfate Reduction: Implication for Brackish Groundwater Desalination | VPREDKE GREAT Seed Grant |
| 2019-2023 | PI | The Dynamic Iron Curtain Surrounding Fluctuating Rivers and Its Impacts on Arsenic Fate and Transport collaborative research with Texas A&M University and University of Texas at Austin |
NSF Hydrologic Sciences |
| 2018-2022 | PI | Planetary Science and Technology Through Analog Research (PSTAR): Biologic and Resource Analog Investigations in Low Light Environments (BRAILLE) collaboration with NASA AMES, Northwestern University, Desert Research Institute, and New Mexico Tech |
NASA |
| 2018-2020 | PI | Using Pb Isotopes in Delineating Sources of Children's Blood Pb collaborators from Geology and Geophysics and Public Health at Texas A&M University |
T3 TAMU Grant |
| 2018-2019 | PI | Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) Support for a Bilateral Workshop under the 2017-II (August) Call: Coastal Groundwater Dynamics Combining Future Climate Change and Human Development | Pondicherry University, India |
| 2016-2017 | Co-PI | Seeding Growth of a Critical Zone Observatory for Water Research in Kansas funded postdoctoral advisor to Sara Vero |
Kansas State University Water Seed Grant |
| 2014-2016 | PI | Sylvan Grove Project co-shared with Department of Agronomy (involving alumni of Geology Department): dedicated to upbringing of environmental projects in geology and agronomy courses |
Kansas State Foundation |
| 2014-2015 | PI | Prototyping and Testing a New Volumetric Curvature Tool for Modeling Reservoir Compartments and Leakage Pathways in the Arbuckle Saline Aquifer: Reducing Uncertainty in CO2 Storage and Permanence collaborative research |
DoE |
| 2013-2018 | PI | Small Scale Field Test Demonstrating CO2 Sequestration in Arbuckle Saline Aquifer and by CO2-EOR at Wellington Field, Sumner County, Kansas, U.S. collaborative research with Kansas Geological Survey |
DoE |
| 2012-2016 | PI | Modeling CO2 Sequestration in Saline Aquifer and Depleted Oil Reservoir to Evaluate Regional CO2 Sequestration Potential of Ozark Plateau Aquifer System, South-Central Kansas. Department of Energy Recovery Act: Site Characterization of Promising Geologic Formations for CO2 Storage FOA33 collaborative research with Kansas Geological Survey and University of Kansas |
DoE |
| 2012-2015 | PI | Western Annex Modelling CO2 with Regional Geochemical Interpretation-Comparison of Two Sites in Kansas collaborative research with Kansas Geological Survey |
DoE |
| 2012-2015 | PI | Pariette Wetlands Salinity/Selenium Study collaboration with Utah State University-Logan |
Utah Bureau of Land Management |
| 2011-2018 | PI | Chemical Hydrogeologic Investigations of Tungsten: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of an Emerging Environmental Contaminant collaborative research |
NSF Hydrologic Sciences |
| 2010-2011 | PI | Education Grant: Scholarships for Undergraduates | Halliburton Foundation Inc. |
| 2009 | PI | Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilties (SENCER) Post-Institute Implementation Award | NSF |
| 2009 | PI | Searching for Traces of Life and Water in Martian Analogue Environments: Basaltic Caves and Lava Tube | NASA SGC Small Research Grant |
| 2007-2011 | PI | Particulate Matter Characterization and Exposure Assessment-Health Impacts and Air Quality Monitoring Study John Hopkins University-Columbia University and Kansas State University; involved experiments done on site at BNL with GCSU, KSU, and JHU students; working on sites in Baltimore, Phoenix, and Sacramento |
Joint Research Proposal from US-EPA |
