Current Awards
Collaborative Research: Linking Microbial Communities and Iron Geochemistry to Improve Acid Mine Drainage Bioremediation. NSF, Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry. Role: Co-PI (PI: Christy Grettenberger).
Historical abundance and extent of wild rice: environmental drivers leading to its decline. Minnesota Sea Grant. Role: Co-PI (PI: Lienne Sethna).
Understanding the aquatic carbon cycle through community engaged research. MNDrive. Role: Co-PI (PI: Seth Thompson).
Collaborative Research: Testing for nutrient limitation in alpine snow algae ecosystems. NSF, DEB, Ecosystem Science, Role: Co-PI (PI: Jim Elser).
NSFGEO-NERC:Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water. NSF, Arctic Natural Systems, Role: Co-PI (PI: Kathy Licht).
Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria. NSF, Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry. Role: PI.
Collaborative research: Cyanobacteria, Nitrogen Cycling, and Export Production in the Laurentian Great Lakes. NSF, Division of Ocean Sciences, Chemical Oceanography. Role: CoPI (PI: J. Werne).
Think Globally, Sequence Locally: Enhancing Research and Teaching at Itasca Biological Station by Establishing On-Site Long Read Sequencing Capacity. Itasca Seed Grant. PI. Role: PI.
Past Awards
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Developing tools to assess the evolutionary implications of partial clonality in alpine snow algae. NSF, DEB, Evolutionary Processes, Role: Co-PI (PI: S. Krueger-Hadfield).
Between a rock and a frozen place: Cold-based glacial chemical alteration of volcanic bedrock as an analog for Mars. NASA Solar System Workings. Role: Collaborator. (PI: A. Rutledge).
Collaborative Research: Quantifying the contribution of alpine glacier meltwater to mountain-block recharge using microbiological markers and environmental isotopes. NSF, Division of Earth Sciences, Hydrologic Sciences. Role: Co-PI (PI: M. Frisbee).
The distribution and activity of metabolically diverse anoxygenic phototrophs across geochemical gradients in hydrothermal systems. NASA Exobiology. Role: PI.
Characterizing the Link Between Algal Bloom Biomass and Methane Production in Ohio Reservoirs. Ohio Water Resources Center (USGS). Role: Co-I (PI: I. Buffam).
Contaminated Water and the Collapse of the Ancient Maya: Microbiome and Geochemical Analyses of Reservoir Sediments from Tikal. NSF-Archaeology. Role: Co-I (PI: D. Lentz).
Life on ice - The role of microbiota in glacier ice worm adaptation and biogeography. University of Cincinnati - University Research Council. Role: PI.
The Role of Biology in Planetary Evolution: Microbial Primary Production in Proterozoic Oceans. NASA Astrobiology Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Collaborative Research: Linking Microbial Communities and Iron Geochemistry to Improve Acid Mine Drainage Bioremediation. NSF, Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry. Role: Co-PI (PI: Christy Grettenberger).
Historical abundance and extent of wild rice: environmental drivers leading to its decline. Minnesota Sea Grant. Role: Co-PI (PI: Lienne Sethna).
Understanding the aquatic carbon cycle through community engaged research. MNDrive. Role: Co-PI (PI: Seth Thompson).
Collaborative Research: Testing for nutrient limitation in alpine snow algae ecosystems. NSF, DEB, Ecosystem Science, Role: Co-PI (PI: Jim Elser).
NSFGEO-NERC:Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water. NSF, Arctic Natural Systems, Role: Co-PI (PI: Kathy Licht).
Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria. NSF, Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry. Role: PI.
Collaborative research: Cyanobacteria, Nitrogen Cycling, and Export Production in the Laurentian Great Lakes. NSF, Division of Ocean Sciences, Chemical Oceanography. Role: CoPI (PI: J. Werne).
Think Globally, Sequence Locally: Enhancing Research and Teaching at Itasca Biological Station by Establishing On-Site Long Read Sequencing Capacity. Itasca Seed Grant. PI. Role: PI.
Past Awards
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Developing tools to assess the evolutionary implications of partial clonality in alpine snow algae. NSF, DEB, Evolutionary Processes, Role: Co-PI (PI: S. Krueger-Hadfield).
Between a rock and a frozen place: Cold-based glacial chemical alteration of volcanic bedrock as an analog for Mars. NASA Solar System Workings. Role: Collaborator. (PI: A. Rutledge).
Collaborative Research: Quantifying the contribution of alpine glacier meltwater to mountain-block recharge using microbiological markers and environmental isotopes. NSF, Division of Earth Sciences, Hydrologic Sciences. Role: Co-PI (PI: M. Frisbee).
The distribution and activity of metabolically diverse anoxygenic phototrophs across geochemical gradients in hydrothermal systems. NASA Exobiology. Role: PI.
Characterizing the Link Between Algal Bloom Biomass and Methane Production in Ohio Reservoirs. Ohio Water Resources Center (USGS). Role: Co-I (PI: I. Buffam).
Contaminated Water and the Collapse of the Ancient Maya: Microbiome and Geochemical Analyses of Reservoir Sediments from Tikal. NSF-Archaeology. Role: Co-I (PI: D. Lentz).
Life on ice - The role of microbiota in glacier ice worm adaptation and biogeography. University of Cincinnati - University Research Council. Role: PI.
The Role of Biology in Planetary Evolution: Microbial Primary Production in Proterozoic Oceans. NASA Astrobiology Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.