Funding

Grants and Awards Received
National Science Foundation CAREER Award to MEP. 2020-2025.

Save our Seas Foundation to MEP. 2017-2020. Migration mechanics.  $53,000.

National Science Foundation to JHL, MEP, and RR.  RUI.  2009-2013.  Computational and experimental biomechanics: Modeling Non-linear Viscoelastic Behavior of the Vertebral Column of Swimming Elasmobranchs. $400,000.

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. Funding secured for Bioinspirations symposium at 2011 annual SICB meeting. $2000

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. Funding secured for Bioinspirations symposium at 2011 annual SICB meeting. $1000

Awards while a student:
American Elasmobranch Society Student Research Award.  2007.  $1000.

SICB Grant in Aid of Research.  2007.  $1000.

Wainwright Fellowship at Friday Harbor Laboratories.  2005.  $3,000.

Field Museum Visiting Student Scholarship with Mark Westneat.  2005.  $602.

Friday Harbor with University of Washington financial aid for summer courses.  2004.  $1300.

American Elasmobranch Society Student Travel Award.  2003.  $200.

Honorary Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002.

Best Student Paper at Arizona Nevada Academy of Sciences 45th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV April, 2001.