Funding/Awards：
2014 National Science Foundation ($700K), Sustainable Adaptive Gradients in the Coastal Environment
(SAGE): Reconceptualizing the Role of Infrastructure in Resilience (Steering Committee Member; P.I.
Elisabeth Hamin, U. of Massachusetts)
2010 Widgeon Foundation ($30K); NSF RAPID ($30K). Information sharing between disaster response and
recovery phases of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Principal Investigator- Louise Comfort (U. of
Pittsburgh)
2007 National Science Foundation ($25K). Rapid response to the 1 April, 2007 Solomon Islands tsunami.
2005-2010 National Science Foundation ($2.4M): Developing International Protocols for Offshore Sediments and
their Role in Geohazards, co-PI.
2003-2004 National Science Foundation ($25K): Surface Geomorphology from 3D Seismic and Multibeam
Bathymetry: Implications for Cascadia Seismicity
2002 Vassar College, Environmental Sciences Research Fund ($5K): Tsunami Deposits from the 1929
Grand Banks Earthquake, Taylor’s Bay, Newfoundland
2001-2002 National Science Foundation ($34K): Surface Geomorphology from 3D Seismic, Nankai Accretionary
Prism, Japan. Travel, equipment, salary.
1999-2001 Vassar College Environmental Sciences Research Fund ($4K): Snow Avalanche Hazard, Mt.
Washington, New Hampshire. Travel, equipment, avalanche safety course.
1998 Ford Foundation Fellowship (declined)
1993-1998 Shell Oil Foundation, Graduate Student Fellowship: Tuition, salary.
1993 Amoco Minority Fellowship: Summer salary
1991-1993 J. William Fulbright Scholarship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Travel, tuition, equipment
stipend, salary.
1990-1991 National Science Foundation, Science Opportunity Fellowship ($5K): Stable isotope analysis, equipment,
and travel.