Grants Associated with Teaching and Student Research

  • 2002-05 National Science Foundation: Office of Polar Programs; Collaborative Research: Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic Fauna, Environment,climate, and basinal history:Beardmore Glacier area, Transantarctic Mountains; P.I.’s; John Isbell (UWM) and Molly Miller (Vanderbilt University). Grant supported 6 undergraduate research projects (NSF REU support) 3 M.S. theses and 1 Post Doc.
  • 2008-12 National Science Foundation: Office of International Science and Engineering; Research Grant: Collaborative IRES: Integrated Research & Educational Training of GeoscienceStudents in Deep-Time Paleoclimatology, Western South America. P.I.s Isabel Montañez, (Univ. of California Davis), John Isbell (UWM), and Margaret Fraizer (UWM).
  • 2010-2013 National Science Foundation: Office of Polar Programs: Collaborative Research: Antarctic Ecosystems across the Permian−Triassic boundary: Integrating Paleobotany, Sedimentology, and Paleoecology. Co-PIs; Edith Taylor (University of Kansas), Thomas Taylor (University of Kansas), and John Isbell (UWM).
  • 2010-2013 National Science Foundation: Office of Polar Programs: Collaborative Research: Application of detrital zircon isotope characteristics and sandstone analysis of Beacon strata to the tectonic evolution of the Antarctic sector of Gondwana. Co-PIs; David Elliot (The Ohio State University) and John Isbell (UWM).