Current External Funding
2024
$10,000 Virginia Space Grant: Predicting the distribution of a cryptic keystone predator in Chesapeake Bay
2019-2023
$299,823 National Science Foundation: The ecology of cloning
Previous External Funding
2017-2018
$24,442 AUD Australian Museum Crown of Thorns Starfish Research Grant. Co-PI with Dr. Maria Byrne (University of Sydney)
2013-2017
$313,097 National Science Foundation: Strong tests of life history theory using experimental reduction of embryo energy content in diverse marine invertebrates
2015
$20,000 AUD Australian Museum Crown of Thorns Starfish Research Grant. Co-PI with Dr. Maria Byrne (University of Sydney) and Dr. Symon Dworjanyn (Southern Cross University)
2012-2013
$10,000 Jeffress Memorial Trust: Predator-induced Transgenerational Plasticity in a Marine Snail
2011-2012
$10,000 Jeffress Memorial Trust: Predator-induced Transgenerational Plasticity in a Marine Snail
2010-2011
$20,000 Jeffress Memorial Trust: Predator-induced Transgenerational Plasticity in a Marine Snail
Internal Funding
2024
$15,000 Reves Faculty Fellowship
2023-2024
$15,000 Provost Grant. Co-PI with Dr. Dan Cristol to develop biology field courses
2022-2025
$10,000/year Class of 2025 Associate Professor of Biology
2021-2024
$20,000 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence
2020
$10,000 Charles Center Curriculum Development Award. Co-PI with Dr. Matthias Leu to lead Marine Ecology and Conservation field course
2017-2020
$8,000/year Broderick Goldmann Sachs Term Distinguished Associate Professorship
2016
$9,132 Charles Center Curriculum Development Award. Co-PI with Dr. Matthias Leu to develop Marine Ecology and Conservation field course
2013
$10,000 EVMS/WM Collaborative Research Award (Co-PI with Dr. Aurora Esquela-Kerscher): Understanding the risks and prevalence of human infection by the parasitic nematode Gongylonema pulchrum
$4,000 Summer Research Award: Eco-Devo in the time of climate change: lessons from nearshore marine invertebrates
2010
$5,000 Suzann Wilson Matthews Summer Research Award: Novel Developmental Flexibility in Western North Atlantic Echinoderms
Internal Student Funding (Summer Fellowships Only)
2024-2025
$8,500 Elisabeth Fink. Virginia Space Grant Consortium. Applying satellite-obtained oceanographic data to predict recruitment by larval cloning in a keystone predator, the sea star Asteria forbesi
2022
$3,000 Abby Hazelgrove. Ecology of freshwater jellyfish blooms in the Crim Dell.
$3,000 Erika Hansen. Monroe Scholarship. Developmental hatching plasticity in flatworms in Chesapeake Bay.
2021
$4,000 Augustin Kalytiak-Davis, Honors Fellowship. Juvenile ecology and cannibalistic behavior in seastars.
$4,000 Erin-Darby McClain, Honors Fellowship. Larval cloning in the daisy brittlestar.
$4,000 Alexis Reece, Honors Fellowship. Larval cloning and hybridization-induced developmental instability in seastars.
2019
$5,000 Danielle Barnes, Honors Fellowship. Predator-induced phenotypic plasticity across life history stages in green sea urchins.
2018
$6,000 Matthew Baker, Honors Fellowship. Effects of mud snail egg deposition on restoration of eelgrass in Casco Bay.
2016
$6,000 Kharis Schrage, Honors Fellowship. Hemichordates as a model system for studying intertidal zonation in soft sediment ecosystems.
2015
$6,000 Emily Harmon, Honors Fellowship. Predator-prey interactions between sea urchins and mudsnails on the coast of Maine.
2014
$6,000 Salma Abdel-Raheem, Honors Fellowship. Environmentally-cued hatching in echinoid echinoiderms.
$3,000 Stacy Trackenberg, Charles Center Chappell Fellowship. How do changes in offspring provisioning affect larval and juvenile development in seastars?
2012
$6,000 Holly Blackburn, Dintersmith Honors Fellowship. Testing the effects of egg size on cloning rates in the seastar Asterias forbesi.
$3,600 Shelby Ziegler, Noyce Summer Internship. Effects of larval cloning on time to and size at metamorphosis in the brittle star, Ophiopholis aculeata.
2011
$3,000 Holly Blackburn, Monroe Scholars Program. Determining blastomere fates in early embryos of echinoid echinoderms.
$4,000 Daniel Schwab, Summer Research Fellowship, College of William & Mary Undergraduate Science Education and Research Program, funded by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant through the Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program to the College of William & Mary. Maternal size effects on reproduction and larval development in the mud snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta.
$2,000 Jordan Salyers, DeFontes Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Biology at the College of William and Mary. Estimating predation rates on juvenile Green Sea Urchins.
2010
$3,000 Frances Armstrong, Summer Research Fellowship, College of William & Mary Charles Center US Research Fellowship. Testing the consequences of environmentally induced multiples in the sand dollar Echinarachnius parma.
$3,800 Daniel Schwab, Summer Research Fellowship, College of William & Mary Undergraduate Science Education and Research Program, funded by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant through the Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program to the College of William & Mary. The effect of maternal quality on egg deposition in the mudsnail, Ilyanassa obsoleta.
$3,800 Connor White, Summer Research Fellowship, College of William & Mary Undergraduate Science Education and Research Program, funded by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant through the Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program to the College of William & Mary. Testing the effectiveness of clustering as an oviposition strategy in the intertidal snail, Nucella lapillus.