Date Role Project Funding Source
2025–2030 PI Capacity Building to Catalyze Collaborations to Address Climate Change Impacts on Human Health (C2H2) NSF
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
2021–2026 PI RAPID: Impacts of High Magnitude Wildfire on Volcanic (Lava Tube) Cave Water Chemistry, Nutrient Transport, Activity and Diversity of Cave Microbiome NSF EAR
2021–2025 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
2019–2025 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