Recent grants
Recent grants (all as PI)
| 2021 | USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, "2022 North Central Region National Cooperative Soil Survey Conference" $15,000 |
| 2021 | Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, "Loess Mapping in Wisconsin" $9910 |
| 2019 | MSU PURI program, "Examination of weathering within soil tongues" $2000 |
| 2018 | NSF, “Understanding Past Environments and Glacial Processes Through an Analysis of a Newly Discovered Glacial Lake” $349,019 |
| 2016 |
MSU College of Social Science Faculty Initiative Funds grant, "Mapping of deep clay deposits in northern lower Michigan" $8792 |
| 2016 |
INQUA, "Support for the 2016 INQUA Loess Focus Group meeting, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA" $4320 |
| 2015 |
NSF, Conference Grant: Support for the 2016 INQUA Loessfest – an International Conference on Loess, Dust and Related Topics. $38,000 |
| 2015 |
MSU AgBio Research Bridge grant. Forest Biogeochemistry-Climate Change Research. (David Rothstein is PI; I am co-PI) $12,000 |
| 2015 |
Honors College grant in support of teaching: UGS 200H. $6000 |
| 2013 | AAG, Research Grant: Multiple Source Areas for the Loess of Central Wisconsin: A Geographic Approach. $900. |
| 2011 |
NSF, Research Grant: Snow and Snowpack Controls on Dissolved Organic Carbon Production, Transport and Stabilization in Northern Forest Soils. (David Rothstein is PI, Stuart Grandy and I are co-PIs) $450,000 |
| 2011 |
Honors College grant in support of teaching: UGS 200H. $6000 |
| 2009 |
NSF, Research Grant: Theoretical and paleoenvironmental implications of dating and characterizing loess deposits in the upper Midwest. (Steve Forman and John Attig are co-PIs) $300,000. |
| 2007 | USDA-Forest Service Grant: The Fertility Potential Index:
Expanding on prior USFS research on soils as barometers of forest health.
(Frank Krist is co-PI)
$78,413. |
| 2006 | NSF, Research Experience for Undergraduates, supplement to
the 2004 NSF grant.
$5900. |
| 2005 | USDA-Forest Service Grant: Development of a dryness/wetness
index for soils of the United States, based on their taxonomic
classification.
(Frank Krist is co-PI)
$30,002. |
| 2004 | NSF, Research Grant: Spatial signatures of soils and
sediments: Geomorphic research on silty soils in the midwest USA. $222,127. |
| 2002 |
IRGP,
MSU:, "Coming full circle: Putting the geography back in soil science"
$8000. |
| 2001 |
NSF, Research Experience
for Undergraduates, supplement to the 1999 NSF grant
$6000 |
| 1999 |
NSF, Research Grant:
Soils, geomorphology, GIS and paleolakes in northern Lower Michigan.
$118,423 |
| 1996 |
NSF, Research Experience
for Undergraduates, supplement to the 1994 NSF grant $4105 |
| 1994 |
NSF, Research Grant:
Functional interrelationships among landscape position, lithology
and water flow in bisequal soils $109,988 |
| 1991 |
Association of American
Geographers, Research Grant: Carbonate accumulations in humid climate
soils. (includes $2762. of in-kind support from the USDA-Soil Conservation
Service) $3230 |
Major grants with PhD students
| 2004 | Joseph Hupy | Assessing Landscape Disturbance and Recovery Across a WWI
Battlefield, Verdun, France. $10,344 |
| 1994 | Linda Barrett | Human
Disturbance and Site Factors Influencing Spatial Patterns of Forest
Regeneration
$8000 |
| 1994 | Johan Liebens |
Pedology and 10Be dating of
colluvial deposits in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina.
$9820 |