Click on the underlined links to bring up an abstract of the proposal. Most recent proposals are listed first.
- Yingkui Li and Sally Horn. Establishing a Chronology of Late Quaternary Glacial Advances in the Tropical American Cordillera. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Science, $200,000, awarded August 2012.
- Darrin Hulsey. Mechanisms that underlie the evolution of functional innovation and diversity. US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, $122,475, awarded May 2012.
- David Anderson, Eric Kansa, Sarah Kansa, Stephen Yerka. Collaborative Research: Developing the Cyberinfrastructure for a National Archaeological Site Database. National Science Foundation, Archaeology Program, $141, 829, awarded July 2012.
- Henri D. Grissino-Mayer. Climate Change as a Possible Mechanism behind Pinyon-Juniper Encroachment on Grasslands, El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Fire and Aviation Program, $55,493, submitted November 2012.
- Zheng-Hua Li and Sally P. Horn. Decadal to Centennial Scale Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Speleothems from the Southern Appalachians. National Science Foundation, Geosciences, REU supplement, $15,000, awarded September 2012.
- Henri D. Grissino-Mayer. Collaborative Research: An International Professional-Development Workshop in Dendrochronology: North American Dendroecological Fieldweek. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, $45,000, awarded May 2011.
- Glenn A. Tootle and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer. REU Supplement to Upper Colorado River Basin Snowpack Reconstructions Incorporating Climate Variability. National Science Foundation, Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) Program, $19,500, awarded June 2011.
- Henri Grissino-Mayer. Stand History, Structure, and Composition of the Pygmy Forests at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico: Interpreting a Rare Forest Type. Western National Parks Association, $7,500, awarded January 2011.
- David Anderson. Survey and Evaluation of Potentially Nationally Significant, Endangered Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in the Bells Bend area along the Cumberland River immediately west of Nashville, Tennessee. Tennessee Historical Commission, $18,000, awarded August 2010.
- Sally Horn and Matthew Valente. Late Quaternary Paleoenvironments and Biota of Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, $11,013, awarded September 2010.
- David Finkelstein. Geochemical and Isotopic Time-series of Marine and Terrestrial Degradation of Petroleum in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. National Science Foundation, $65,531, awarded September 2010.
- Glenn Tootle and Dr. Henri Grissino-Mayer. Upper Colorado River Basin Snowpack Reconstructions Incorporating Climate Variability. National Science Foundation, Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) Program, $166,698, awarded August 2010.
- Henri Grissino-Mayer and Grant Harley. Vegetation Dynamics of Endangered Pine Rockland Communities in the Lower Florida Keys. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, $12,000, awarded June 2010.
- Zheng-Hua Li, Sally Horn, and Steven Driese. Pleistocene-Holocene Climate Variability of the Southern Appalachian Region, Southeastern U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Earth Sciences, $344,861, awarded September 2009.
- Henri Grissino-Mayer and Mark Spond. A Multi-Proxy Approach to Understanding Environmental Dynamics in Old-Growth Rocky Mountain Juniper Woodlands, New Mexico, U.S.A. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences, $11,700, awarded August 2009.
- Sally Horn and Chris Underwood. Anthropogenic Impacts on Fire and Forest History in Native Yellow Pine and Mixed Hardwood-Pine Communities of the Southern Appalachians. National Science Foundation, $10,550, awarded August 2009.
- Henri Grissino-Mayer, David Finkelstein, and Daniel Lewis. Multiproxy Analysis of Tropical Cyclones and Climate Variability at Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences, $8,250, awarded August 2009.
- Darrin Hulsey. Evolutionary Plasticity: Is Remodeling Key to Cichlid Pharyngeal Jaw Diversification? National Science Foundation, Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, $166,555, awarded June 2009.
- Henri Grissino-Mayer and John Sakulich. Climate-Induced Range Dynamics in Eastern U.S. Forests. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Science, $11,871, awarded March 2009.
- Sally Horn, David Finkelstein, and Zachary Taylor. Interpreting Prehistoric Agriculture from Isotope and Pollen Indicators in Neotropical Lake Sediments: Do Multiple Cores Enhance Spatial Resolution? National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences, $11,388, awarded July 2008.
- Sally Horn, Ken Orvis, Lynn Champion, and Henri Grissino-Mayer. Enriching Earth Science in Rural Tennessee Middle Schools Through Research-Based Activities on Climate and Environmental History. National Science Foundation, Division of Graduate Education, $1,957,148, awarded April 2006.
- Sally Horn, Dr. Ken Orvis, and Dr. Claudia Mora. Holocene Climate and Environmental History in the Northeastern Caribbean. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences, $199,232, awarded February 2006.