Research Projects & Grants

  • Use of Animals for Education, Role: PI, (05/2021 - 05/2024) Status: Approved
  • Diet, pollution, epigenetics, and microbiomes in reptiles, Role: PI, (08/2021 - 08/2024) Status: Approved
  • Radiotelemetry for studying reptiles, Role: PI, (12/2007 - 09/2008) Status: Completed
  • Ecology of the threatened Bimini Boa, Epicrates striatus fosteri, Role: PI, (02/2012 - 02/2013) Status: Completed

Federal

  • Graduate Research Fellowship Program (for Richard Croghan Cochran), Role: Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, (06/2012 - 05/2018) Status: Closed

Internal

  • Sleep and the behavioral ecology of the Desert Iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis), Role: PI, LLU Graduate School, (12/2007 - 09/2008) Status: Completed
  • Factors influencing Culex mosquito feeding preference on birds and implications for West Nile virus transmission, Role: PI, LLU Dept. of Earth and Biological Sciences, (11/2016 - 11/2017) Status: Completed

Non-Profit Organization

  • Taxonomy, behavioral ecology, and conservation of birds, Role: PI, Disney Foundation, (12/2007 - 09/2008) Status: Completed
  • Canine Rattlesnake Avoidance Training, Role: PD/PI, Ethel Friends Foundation, (01/2020 - 12/2020) Status: Awarded
  • Dogs and Rattlesnakes in Southern California: Avoiding Confrontations and Envenomation, Role: PD/PI, Ethel Friends Foundation, (04/2019 - 03/2020) Status: Awarded